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- In Michelle Richmond’s ‘The Marriage Pact,’ Till Death Do Us Part Jokes Write Themselves
- This Is Your Brain On Dating: The KaliReads Guide To Dating Books
- Let’s Get Mad, People – This Is Rage, The Podcast
- Charlie Jane Anders’ ‘All The Birds In The Sky’ Is The Harry Potter For Adults You’ve Been Waiting For
- Uncover A Wrongful Conviction in ‘The Life We Bury’ by Allen Eskens
- Scare Slowly, Then All At Once: Andrew Michael Hurley’s ‘The Loney’
- Lavie Tidhar Imagines A Future City Both Strange and Familiar In ‘Central Station’
- Oh, A Bay Area Book-Festin’ I Did Go
- A Man Survives In Noah Hawley’s ‘Before the Fall’
- Gregory Boyle Brings Boundless Compassion In ‘Tattoos on the Heart’
- Game, Set, ‘Sudden Death’
- ‘Luckiest Girl Alive’ Author Jessica Knoll In Phoenix Today
- She Never Calls, She Never Writes…
- ‘Area X’ Meets ‘And Then There Were None’ In Abby Geni’s ‘The Lightkeepers’
- Lose Yourself In Lisa Lutz’s ‘The Passenger’ – Review and Giveaway
- Hackers Go Head To Head In Drew Chapman’s ‘The King Of Fear’
- BLOG TOUR: Is Fiona Barton’s ‘The Widow’ The Next ‘Gone Girl’?
- Take A Very Long Walk In The Woods With Diane Les Becquets’ ‘Breaking Wild’
- Michael Kardos Asks Us To Believe In ‘Before He Finds Her’
- All The Amazing Movies Based On Books Headed Your Way
- Jenny Lawson Makes Us All ‘Furiously Happy’
- Judy Batalion Takes On History, Hoarding, And Family In ‘White Walls’
- Cecilia Ekbäck’s ‘Wolf Winter’ Is A Gothic Survivalist Thriller
- The Nightingale: How War Affects Women, How Women Affect A War
- Kali’s 10 Best Brackish Books of 2015
- Drench Yourself In The Sweet, Sweet Sap of Jennifer Weiner’s ‘Who Do You Love’
- Happy Thanksgiving! Here Are Some Books I’m Grateful For Today…
- Karin Slaughter Takes On Family And Other Gruesome Things In ‘Pretty Girls’
- Garth Risk Hallberg’s ‘City on Fire’ Is Too Big To Describe Here, But I Can Try
- Obligatory Halloween Post!
- Ottessa Moshfegh’s Wry, Oddball ‘Eileen’
- Commute As Turning Point: Joshua Mohr’s ‘All This Life’
- In Ava Marsh’s ‘Untouchable,’ ‘Fifty Shades’ Gets A Murderous Makeover
- The Wonder Years Meets Law And Order: SVU In M.O. Walsh’s ‘My Sunshine Away’
- When The Bachelorette Party Goes Very, Very Wrong: Ruth Ware’s ‘In A Dark, Dark Wood’
- In Elisabeth Egan’s ‘A Window Opens,’ Modern Day Mom Meets E-Pub Giant
- Elizabeth Kolbert’s ‘The Sixth Extinction’ Is The Saddest Story In All The Land
- In Jonathan Kellerman’s ‘The Murderer’s Daughter,’ A Victim’s Advocate Goes Vigilante
- Updates and ‘The Marquis’ Giveaway!
- Linwood Barclay starts new trilogy with ‘Broken Promise’
- Good Games Go Wrong In Christopher J. Yates’s ‘Black Chalk’
- Post-Pandemic World Is Playground For The Rich In Taylor Antrim’s ‘Immunity’
- Sascha Arango’s ‘The Truth and Other Lies’ Is A Dark And Churning Comedy
- In Robin Kirman’s ‘Bradstreet Gate,’ College Is Hell
- Hempel And Climent Bare Their Teeth In ‘The Hand That Feeds You’
- Horror Gets Meta In Paul Tremblay’s ‘A Head Full Of Ghosts’
- In ‘The Bones of You,’ Debbie Howells Channels Alice Seobold’s ‘The Lovely Bones’
- When Your Rich Dad Gets Busted For Fraud: Christina McDowell Lives ‘After Perfect’
- Summer Reads: S.J. Watson’s ‘Second Life’ Is A Sexy, Slow Burn
- Renee Knight’s ‘Disclaimer’ Is This Summer’s Big Thrill
- Robert Charles Wilson’s ‘The Affinities’ Is ‘Divergent’ For Grown Ups
- The Real Alex Vause Speaks Out: Cleary Wolters Goes Humble In New Memoir ‘Out of Orange’
- Summer Reads: Paolo Bacigalupi’s ‘The Water Knife’ Will Freak You Out And Make You Thirsty
- In Laura Van Den Berg’s ‘Find Me,’ Forgetting Kills As It Saves
- Samantha Hayes Brings Twists To A Small Town In ‘What You Left Behind’
- The Tragic Tale of Lucie Blackman: A Londoner Disappears In Tokyo
- The Suppressed Rage, The Suppressed Everything, Of Howard Jacobsen’s ‘J’
- Emily Schultz’s ‘The Blondes:’ Viral “Blonde Fury” Strikes Women and Our Standards of Beauty
- Important Book of the Day – Jon Krakauer’s ‘Missoula’
- Tom Cooper Brings The Bayou To Life In ‘The Marauders’
- No Secrets Are Safe In Harlan Coben’s The Stranger
- In Ghettoside, Jill Leovy Reveals The People Behind The Statistics
- A Brain Full Of Crime-Solving Crayons: The Kalireads Interview With Colby Marshall
- In Until You’re Mine, All That She Wants Is Another Baby
- Getting Clarity In A Post-Going Clear World: More on Scientology
- Jon Ronson, Monica Lewinsky, And The Fierce Twitter Avalanche of Snowflakes
- What We Talk About When We Talk About Vaccinating: Eula Biss’ On Immunity
- William Gibson’s The Peripheral: The Past Is The Playground For The Future’s Rich
- An Untamed State: Roxane Gay Stares The Violence Down
- Update: Annihilation Moves To The Next Round In The Tournament Of Books
- Where Are Our Jetpacks? In Daniel Suarez’s Influx, The Bureau of Technology Control Steals The Future
- Photosensitivity Makes Anna Lyndsey a Girl in the Dark
- Lily King Writes Euphoria and Dread on the Kiona River
- Jeff VanderMeer’s ‘Annihilation’ Will Take You On A Ride To Crazy Town
- Miranda July Introduces Us To The First Bad Man
- Jurassic Park, but with Chinese Dragons? Say What?
- For Valentine’s Day: Books On Love, Hate, And Everything In Between
- John Scalzi’s Lock In Takes the ‘Artificial’ out of AI
- Take a Slow and Creaky Ride With Paula Hawkins’ The Girl on the Train
- From Lifestyle Reporter to Something More Serious: Pete Crooks Dishes on Lying PIs and Dirty Cops in The Setup
- We’re Living In The Perfect Climate For An Arctic Thriller
- Denis Johnson’s Tricksters Laugh Their Way Through Africa
- When Good Genes Go Very, Very Bad: Franck Thilliez’s Bred to Kill
- Wherever you go, there you are
- Horror Goes Global In Syndrome E
- The Triumphant Apocalypse of Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven
- 2014 in review – thanks for reading!
- What does it look like Inside the Criminal Mind?
- Post-Christmas Alaskan Myth Review–Put on Your Snow Boots!
- The Significant, Sad Case Of Alice Mitchell, Told By Alexis Coe in Alice + Freda Forever
- 2014: My Year in Reading
- One Life Is Lost So Another Can Be Found In Amy Rowland’s The Transcriptionist
- Kalireads.com is on Facebook!
- Eva Hagberg’s It’s All In Your Head Takes A Hard Look At The Mindfuck Of Illness
- In Cartwheel, Jennifer DuBois Builds An Amanda Knox Rorschach Test
- In Jesse Ball’s Silence Once Begun, the Puzzle Proves a Point
- Want More Serial? Five Other True Crime Cases To Keep You Up At Night
- Edan Lepucki Shakes Up California
- Tom Rob Smith’s The Farm Morphs Mom and Dad Into Spy Vs. Spy
- Love Is Lost and Found in Peter Stamm’s All Days Are Night
- In Elizabeth Little’s Dear Daughter, Socialite Turns Sleuth
- Halloween Treat Alert! Ghastle and Yule by Josh Malerman
- Chelsea Cain introduces tough girl Kick Lannigan in One Kick
- The Spookiest Novels I’ve Read
- Jessica Hendry Nelson’s If Only You People Could Follow Directions Is An Intimate Look At One Family’s Struggle With Addiction
- Spillover vs. Ebola: Which David Quammen Book Should You Buy?
- John Darnielle Quietly Releases the Wolves, withWolf in White Van
- For the Love of Spam
- With A Vision of Fire, Gillian Anderson Moves From Screen to Page
- The Liebster Award
- JK Rowling masters her new genre with The Silkworm
- David Cronenberg’s Debut Novel Consumed May Eat Off Your Hand While You Read It
- Overdressed: Elizabeth Cline Rips the Cheap Fashion Industry Apart at its Poorly Sewn Seams
- Review – Between Page and Screen by Amaranth Borsuk and Brad Bouse
- Review – The Children Act by Ian McEwan
- The to-be-read Tag
- Recap of Hieroglyph Q&A with Neal Stephenson and friends
- Review – One of Us by Tawni O’Dell
- Review – The Secret Place by Tana French
- Tana French’s Dublin Murder Squad Series Recapped
- Review – The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky, and Death by Colson Whitehead
- Review – The Arsonist by Sue Miller
- Review – The Quick by Lauren Owen
- Review – The Night Season by Chelsea Cain
- Who was Piper Kerman’s girlfriend?
- Review – The Sanctuary of Illness: A Memoir of Heart Disease by Thomas Larson
- Important Book of the Day – Spillover by David Quammen
- Review – The Leftovers by Tom Perotta
- Review – Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever? by Dave Eggers
- Review – Fourth of July Creek by Smith Henderson
- Review – How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman
- Review – Cop Town by Karin Slaughter
- Review – Bird Box by Josh Malerman
- Review – The Fever by Megan Abbott
- Review – Big Brother by Lionel Shriver
- Important Book of the Day – The Children’s Hospital by Chris Adrian
- A Few Of My Favorite Things
- Review – The Good Nurse by Charles Graeber
- Review – Summer House with Swimming Pool by Herman Koch
- Review – Before I Go To Sleep by S. J. Watson
- Review – Young God by Katherine Faw Morris
- Review – The Tyrant’s Daughter by J.C. Carleson
- Review – To Rise Again at a Decent Hour by Joshua Ferris
- Everything You Need to Know about the New ‘My Dad Is the Zodiac Killer’ Book, The Most Dangerous Animal of All by Gary L. Stewart and Susan Mustafa
- Review – The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
- Review – Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
- Review – The Martian by Andy Weir
- Happy California Bookstore Day!
- Review – The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
- Review – Beauty by Frederick Dillen
- Review – Girl with Glasses: My Optic History by Marissa Walsh
- Review – Speaks the Nightbird by Robert McCammon
- (Oh)dysseus!
- Review – HHhH by Laurent Binet
- Review – The Weight of Blood by Laura McHugh
- Review – Orange Is the New Black by Piper Kerman
- Review – A Death-Struck Year by Makiia Lucier
- On Knox – The Fatal Gift of Beauty: The Trials of Amanda Knox by Nina Burleigh
- valentines
- Life imitates plot, as a priceless violin is nabbed in Milwauke
- Review – Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape by Jenna Miscavige Hill
- On falling for Donna
- Review – You Are One of Them by Elliott Holt
- HBO’s True Detective
- Review – Elders: A Novel by Ryan McIlvain
- Laughter, the best medicine?
- Review – Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery by Robert Kolker
- Post-Christmas Poetry Post – Victoria Chang’s The Boss
- Review – Coming Clean by Kimberly Rae Miller
- Review – The Hanging Judge by Michael Ponsor
- Review – Doctor Sleep by Stephen King
- Review – The Burn Palace by Stephen Dobyns
- Cataloging Influences – My Author Alphabet
- Review – Homeland: Phantom Pain by Glenn Gers
- Review – This is Rage by Ken Goldstein
- The Shining!
- Ender’s Game – Finally, a movie!
- Ode to Daylight Savings 3
- Review – The Never List by Koethi Zan
- Review – The Circle by Dave Eggers
- Review – Difficult Men by Brett Martin
- Review – Night Film by Marisha Pessl
- Review – Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
- Review – Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink
- Review – Dissident Gardens by Jonathan Lethem
- Being Human 2013 post-conference thoughts
- Being Human 2013
- The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon – What went wrong?
- 10 Books With Epic Movie Potential
- Review – The Salinger Contract by Adam Langer
- Review – The Skies Belong to Us by Brendan I. Koerner, narrated by Rob Shapiro
- Review – MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood
- Review – The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick, narrated by Ray Porter
- Review – Everything Bad Is Good For You by Steven Johnson
- 7 Audioworthy Apocalypses
- Review – Virgin Soul: A Novel by Judy Juanita
- Review – The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling)
- Review – Paleofantasy by Marlene Zuk
- Important book of the Day – The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead.
- Review – The Interrogator: An Education by Glenn L. Carle.
- On Franzen.
- AMBER.
- Epic book of the day – Wool by Hugh Howey.
- Review – Woke Up Lonely by Fiona Maazel.
- Review – The Sociopath Next Door by Martha Stout.
- Review – Love, Life, and Elephants: An African Love Story by Daphne Sheldrick.
- Quick Update
- The Cuckoo’s Calling and The Matthew Effect.
- I’m seeing double – the faces on the covers of magazines.
- Review – The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes.
- A top 5 list posted at Audible.com.
- The Legend of Hannibal Lecter.
- Review – Broken Harbor by Tana French/A Case of Redemption by Adam Mitzner.
- Important book of the day – The Shallows by Nicholas Carr.
- Review – The Dinner: A Novel by Herman Koch.
- Why hello there!