Marty McFly
Today is the day. Sure, it’s a bit hollow to attach significance to a random day from a fictional...
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Author: Scott Spinelli
Nobody Walks by Mick Herron
A quick glance at Mick Herron’s bibliography and you might think you’re dealing with some sort of...
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Independent Ed by Ed Burns
I’m not typically a rah-rah, go-team type of guy. I’ve never really been one to read something...
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The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins by Irvine Welsh
Sometimes simply saying whether a book is, for lack of better terms, good or bad isn’t quite the...
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How To Fight Presidents by Daniel O’Brien
Being funny on paper is difficult. Being consistently funny is really hard. And being all that...
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The Room by Jonas Karlsson
If you’ve ever worked in an office, you know exactly the person I’m about to describe. He or she...
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Killing Kennedy by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard
Let’s get one thing out of the way right off the bat: if it’s an issue for you that Bill O’Reilly...
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Poole’s Paradise by John Vorhaus
Writing a novel about college is tough. Hell, telling a college story in virtually any medium...
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Guide for the Single Man and Woman by Aaron Goldfarb
There are few things in life more frustrating than realizing how clever someone else is. Imagine...
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Straight White Male by John Niven
Here’s the scenario: I’m walking around (last time I’ll mention it, I swear) at BEA, just letting...
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Best to Laugh by Lorna Landvik
Here’s the problem with being a stand-up comedian: people expect you to be funny. Maybe not all...
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The Detective & The Pipe Girl by Michael Craven
Most mysteries are the same, aren’t they? Whether or not the writing is compelling, the desire to...
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How Evan Broke His Head by Garth Stein
We meet Evan at Tracy’s funeral and we are given the following facts: Tracy and Evan used to date,...
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Police by Jo Nesbø
When Jo Nesbø’s Police showed up at my apartment a while back, I groaned in disappointment....
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59 in 84 – Old Hoss
About a year and a half ago, a friend suggested I start following a really funny account on...
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Kids These Days by Drew Perry
This is easily one of the strangest reviews I’ve written since joining the team here at 3G1B. Most...
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The Antagonist by Lynn Coady
Not every story follows a killer on the lam or a treasure hunt. Not every plot details, in...
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A Few Words On Jonathan Tropper
So, Jonathan Tropper has a “new” book out. New is in quotes for two reasons. First, it came out in...
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Interview with Marty Beckerman
Scott Spinelli: From what I’ve been able to discover about you, it seems as if we both grew...
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’90s Island by Marty Beckerman
Merriam-Webster defines a novella as “a work of fiction intermediate in length and complexity...
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Just What Kind of Mother Are You? by Paula Daly
I don’t know who Lisa Gardner is, and I suppose it really doesn’t matter because this has nothing...
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& Sons by David Gilbert
Every so often, you come across something that’s the perfect hybrid of what you’re looking for. If...
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The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes
Before we even get into this review, let me offer the following disclaimer: if you are one of...
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My Trip To The Strand
Something’s happened to me recently. Maybe it’s just a coincidence, but I’d tend to think not. If you’re a fan of the site at all, you’re aware that we’re (I can say we’re now, I’m in the “About Us” page!)…
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