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2014 – The RB Lit Review

December 31, 2014 by Drew

And so, friends, we come to the end of another year.  So many books read, so much to recap – so let’s dive in. VITAL STATS, YEAR FOUR: Books Read: 137 Pages Read: 48,900 (an exact round number – weiiiird) Average Rating: 3.89 (a definite drop from the last two years, although this may reflect a somewhat broader scope of reading? or sharper critical thinking? who knows.) Highest Rating(s): – 6 out of 5 Jeff VanderMeer’s The Southern Reach Trilogy (Annihilation, Authority, Acceptance) was maybe the […]

Categories: Features • Tags: A Visit From The Goon Squad, Acceptance, Annihilation, Authority, Bad Books, Broken Monsters, China Miéville, Dani Lencioni, David Mitchell, DC Pierson, Edgar Cantero, Embassytown, Eric Setiawan, FSG Originals Series, good Books, Harper Perennial, Haruki Murakami, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, Jeff Vandermeer, Jeffrey Eugenides, Jennifer Egan, Junot Diaz, Kafka on the Shore, Karen Russell, Katherine Faw Morris, Lauren Beukes, Lena Dunham, Meg Wolitzer, Murakami 2014, Nick Harkaway, Not That Kind of Girl, Of Bees and Mist, Olive Editions, Parties, Shirley Jackson, So Many Damn Books, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, The Bone Clocks, The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep and Never had to, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, The City and the City, The Interestings, The Marriage Plot, The Morning News, The People in the Trees, The Southern Reach Trilogy, The Supernatural Enhancements, The Tournament of Books 2014, Tigerman, Vonnegut 201x, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Woolf 2015, year in review, You Should Have Known, Young God

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“We’re All Mad Here” with Lauren Beukes, Lev Grossman, and Jeff VanderMeer at Housing Works

September 23, 2014 by Drew

(photo courtesy of the Roving Typist himself, Mr. Christopher Hermelin) Last night, at Housing Works Bookstore in Manhattan, a convergence occurred.  A humorous, heartfelt, intelligent, and all-around awesome convergence.  Three authors were brought together to talk about how… well, how “we’re all mad here.”  Because they’re all a little crazy and hey, so are we, so it all works out. A cool slideshow greeted the packed house of attendees while we waited for Lauren Beukes (Broken Monsters), Lev Grossman (The Magician’s […]

Categories: Events, Features • Tags: Acceptance, Annihilation, Authority, Broken Monsters, Events, Fantasy, Fiction, FSG Originals, Horror, Housing Works, Housing Works Bookstore, Jeff Vandermeer, Lauren Beukes, Lev Grossman, The Magician's Land, The Magicians Trilogy, The Southern Reach Trilogy, We're All Mad Here, WORD Bookstore

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Broken Monsters

September 22, 2014 by Drew

The Short Version: Working in Detroit, Detective Gabi Versado has seen some shit – but nothing quite like this most recent corpse.  The top half of a boy stitched to the bottom half of a deer, it’s only the beginning of something awful and Versado, along with a cast of wonderfully broken characters, will have to face all kinds of darkness if they want to keep their city safe. The Review: I happened to see Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive just after […]

Categories: Crime, Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Literature • Tags: Art, BEA14, Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Broken Monsters, Crime, Detroit, Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Lauren Beukes, Literature, Reviews

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