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This is what PostSecret will look like after the zombie apocalypse. Like PostSecret, it's a collection of (mostly) handwritten notes, supposedly collected by an anonymous survivor. Most of the notes were written after the worst case scenario had a...
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After being forced to poison his wife Amy, vN Javier goes on the run to find her backup. Can he find it before his enemies find him and shut him down permanently?
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CONDITION PURPLE: VERY EXTREME CAUTION!
When the KGB teams up with Chinese Triad gangsters in San Francisco to subvert the United States, only Jonathan Skul and his C.O.B.R.A. team-- the Counter-subversion Operations Bureau of Resistance and Action... " Read more of this review » |
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"Amanda wrote: "I'm always on the lookout for a stray point these days."
From what I'm told, I seem to be missing a lot of them so I'd appreciate the re...more " |
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"Trudi wrote: "I've only read The Cypress House but was mightily impressed by that one. Plus, you had me at FNL."
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"I'm thinking of starting my own Donnybrook contest in the back yard.
The entry fee will be $100 each and the last man standing gets a case of warm Pabs...more " |
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This story is kinda like if Coach Eric Taylor on Friday Night Lights and Nick Stefanos from the crime novels by George Pellecanos were brothers who had been pulled apart by a family tragedy and now faced a killer. Actually, I’m just being glib and th...more |
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"Krycek wrote: "Trudi wrote: "I only saw this in my feed because Richard liked it. Your original post still hasn't showed up in my feed as per usual."
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| I recently got to see some mystery writers including Ace Atkins and Megan Abbott at an event and signing in St. Louis and got one of my proudest moments when I met Atkins and mentioned that I liked the homage he’d done to True Grit in his first Spens...more | |
“I don't know,' Del said. 'I read this book. I guess you could say we were looking for a better life.'
'Did you find it?' the Fish Stick Girl asked.
'No, it was just a goddamn book. I ain't read one since.”
― Donald Ray Pollock, Knockemstiff
'Did you find it?' the Fish Stick Girl asked.
'No, it was just a goddamn book. I ain't read one since.”
― Donald Ray Pollock, Knockemstiff
“Smart people sometimes get stupid, but stupid people never get smart.”
― Don Winslow
― Don Winslow
“You told me once that a soul isn't something a person is born with but something that must be built, by effort and error, study and love. And you did that with more dedication than most, that work of building a soul-not for your own benefit but for the benefit of those that knew you.”
― Chad Harbach, The Art of Fielding
― Chad Harbach, The Art of Fielding
“To be, in a word, unborable.... It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish”
― David Foster Wallace, The Pale King
― David Foster Wallace, The Pale King
“To say I’m an overrated troll, when you have never even seen me guard a bridge, is patently unfair.”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants
― Tina Fey, Bossypants
2011 Kemper Awards (Humor)
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My round up of what I loved and hated in 2011.
2010 Kemper Awards (Humor)
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updated Jan 02, 2011 07:31am
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My favorite books and other assorted crap from 2010.
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