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Mountaineerdave

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Silvia Moreno-Garcia: Mexican Gothic (Hardcover, 2020, Del Rey)

From the author of Gods of Jade and Shadow comes this reimagining of the classic …

Uhmmm, okay then

Mushrooms and fungus-based vampires emigrating to Mexico to ... I dunno. This wasn't exactly what I expected or wanted. It had moments of entertainment, and it had moments of ... I dunno. It was fine, I guess.

The most thorough and comprehensive biography of R.E.M. yet published, Maps and Legends covers not …

I can't say I loved this book. That would be a hollow claim. His living in the passive voice drove me absolutely insane; it distracted me continually. His obvious anger at Peter Buck for some damn thing really gnawed at me, too. Finally, once he became a music critic in the book, he did so without drawing any suggestion for why he could call some of the group's songs "shit," he just did it. Lazy af, imo.

Peter Ames Carlín: The Name of This Band is R.E.M.: A Biography (Doubleday)

In the spring of 1980, an unlikely group of musical eccentrics -- Michael Stipe, Peter …

I want to say I loved this book, but I didn't. There's something to the author's style that I liked in small doses that as the end arrived, amped up. Also, I heard him discuss the book in a podcast. How he described the book didn't really match up with what I read. It's a fun story about a group of guys who went from college kids monkeying around to becoming my favorite musicians of ever and always, but the author left me feeling... like I learned very little? I'm not sure. In the end, disappointing.