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Brent Sleeper

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Joined 2 years, 1 month ago

I am reading here until I can export my account to my local #SanFrancisco sfba.club Bookwyrm!

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Marilynne Robinson: Jack (Hardcover, 2020, Farrar Straus and Giroux)
John Plotz: Ursula Le Guin’s Earthsea (Hardcover, 2023, Oxford University Press)
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Michael R. Katz: The Brothers Karamazov (Hardcover, 2023, Liveright, W.W. Norton & Co.)

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Anthony Bourdain: Bobby Gold (Paperback, 2018, Cannongate Books)

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Gregory Maguire: Son of a Witch (2006, Harper Paperbacks)
Gregory Maguire: Wicked (2000)
Daniel Handler: Bottle Grove (Hardcover, 2019, Bloomsbury Publishing)

2025 Reading Goal

40% complete! Brent Sleeper has read 6 of 15 books.

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reviewed Wallbanger by Alice Clayton (The Cocktail Series, #1)

Alice Clayton: Wallbanger (EBook, 2013, Gallery Books) 3 stars

The first night after Caroline moves into her fantastic new San Francisco apartment, she realizes …

It’s the appletini of smut

2 stars

I was fleetingly titillated by the concept of titling books with #cocktail themed double entendres, and it is with great shame that I admit I read this terribly trashy, luridly cloying, and hideously basic book with agonizing fascination.

And yet: I just spent an hour ensuring Bookwyrm had only the latest and fanciest metadata for the entire series. You’re welcome.

commented on Bobby Gold by Anthony Bourdain

Anthony Bourdain: Bobby Gold (Paperback, 2018, Cannongate Books) 3 stars

Ten slices from the life of Bobby Gold: by night, the security chief of a …

I’m experiencing a bit of cognitive dissonance reading New York voices with British punctuation and orthography. It’s interesting to me that the U.K. version of Bourdain’s book was the first edition published.