BLACK GUYS DO READ - Book Reviews Blog
This is primarily a blog of book reviews. I simply just love reading and I like to record my informal thoughts and reviews on books that I come across. I prefer books with very high stakes so I mostly read crime, noir, and horror/sci-fi, but I enjoy any great story. I'll go for anything as long as it's good!
*Explanation of the Blog Title:
A friend mentioned that there is a stereotype that most black men don't read fiction. Well, I'm here to prove otherwise!
Wednesday, January 6, 2021
SAVAGES by Don Winslow
Thursday, December 31, 2020
NORTH AMERICAN LAKE MONSTERS by Nathan Ballingrud
"A ghost is something that fills a hole inside you, where you lost something. It's a memory. Sometimes it can be painful, and sometimes it can be scary. Sometimes it's hard to tell where the ghost ends and real life begins."
FUGITIVE RED by Jason Starr
It's
GRADE: B-
Tuesday, December 8, 2020
SAYING UNCLE by Greg Gifune
"The truth. Everybody wants the truth. Problem is nobody ever knows what to do with it once they get it."
I am her child, her baby, and she is my mother, and yet, in this odd territory between reality and dreams, we're the same. The blind mice reaching desperately through darkness for some sense of the divine and all the promises such a destination surely holds.
Friday, November 13, 2020
SUMMER FROST by Blake Crouch
Thursday, November 5, 2020
GREENER PASTURES by Michael Wehunt
“You ready to go into the mouth? It goes far and maybe all the way to forever.”
The women fell from the sky, silhouetted as dying eagles against the sunset. They struck the huddled trailers of Twin Firs and buckled thin ceilings, the sound of their impacts like God drumming His fingers on the earth.
Tuesday, October 27, 2020
MY PRETTIES by Jeff Strand
Monday, October 12, 2020
THE HOUSE ON ABIGAIL LANE by Kealan Patrick Burke
The seemingly unremarkable house is now infamous due to a large number of unexplainable events that have occurred there and this novella details its mysterious history; yet another attempt to unlock its secrets. Much of this book's effect comes from its cold, academic
I was home, in the dark, but not alone. The living room was a conspiracy of shadows and among
I love how subtle much of the horror feels. Instead of floating ghosts or monsters chasing characters down the stairs, we get small occurrences, like mysterious disappearances, weird sounds, and creepy figures staring out of windows. It's enough to definitely raise some goosebumps. It's also impressive the way that Burke weaves American history in with the house's legacy, and the horror moves right along with it, giving us different lenses through which to study the house in each era, from the
Another home run by a consistent author and a great way to kick off Halloween season!
We stepped over the threshold of an ordinary house in an ordinary neighborhood and over the threshold of modern knowledge. It is not a place steeped in old evil. It's a calamity of physics. There's a fissure, a gaping cosmic wound, a door to places we can't begin to fathom.
GRADE: B+
Monday, September 28, 2020
THE FAMILIAR DARK by Amy Engel
Little girls were never safe. I should know; I used to be one of them.
The baby snuffled a little, burrowing against her chest, seeking. She had the sudden urge to pinch her daughter, show her, right from the start, that the world was full of ugly things.
Monday, August 17, 2020
AN APOCALYPSE OF OUR OWN by Jeff Strand
Two life-long friends hide out in a tiny survival bunker after the world gets taken over by mutant zombies. There's blood, madness, and lots of guts and body parts. But there's also casual sex, cans of beans, and it's also funny as hell. Not only must our heroes struggle with now being friends with benefits, but also with how the hell to survive this.
This is a story that could only come from the mind of Jeff Strand and is suitably entertaining. But it doesn't balance the tone as well as his more successful books and leans a little too much on the jokey side of things, where it lost some of its urgency. But it's still a laugh-out-loud read that will be a good way to spend an afternoon!
GRADE: B-