Month: August 2017

A collection of short stories, interviews, essays, and a chili recipe. It’s interesting reading about Lansdale’s life and how he writes. It’s a struggle to find the right place to sit down and get the work done. An old table in the bedroom works, but having a whole floor of the house to store all… Read more Hap and Leonard Ride Again

This one went quick. Finished it last night, so basically took two days. I really enjoyed the story and having read one of the future books where Vanilla Ride appears again, I was looking forward to seeing how she debuted. Kind of a spoiler, but she barely appears in the book even as a MacGuffin.… Read more Vanilla Ride

Found it. Wasn’t that hard really. Just looked at the last few things on the list and picked out the one without a post. This Quarry book was interesting, since it took place at a porno shoot, from back in the day, when there were directors and stars as opposed to all this amateur stuff… Read more Quarry’s Cut

Yes, yet another Hap and Leonard book. I’ve yet to be disappointed, so will keep on reading. This is the fourth in the series and introduces Jim Bob Luke, PI. Having read the books all out of order, I’m already familiar with the gentleman and it was quite a pleasure to see his introduction to… Read more Bad Chili

I’m not sure how this ended up on my Kindle. It was either one of those First look free books that come with Prime or I bought it on a recommendation and have just forgotten. Still, I enjoyed it. I’ll check out the next book in the series. It seems a bit too much on… Read more Atlanta Burns

Ah, another great book from Joe Lansdale. I just can’t get enough. I stayed up way too late reading it last night. There’s something about the way he writes dialog that makes me want to keep reading. The sad part is that I’m going to run out of his books soon. I suppose I can… Read more Leather Maiden