Orrin Grey

4 weeks ago | earlybirdbooks.com | Orrin Grey |Ron Hansen |Sandrine Collette |Cameron Judd

Many readers will tell you that there’s no other writer quite like Cormac McCarthy, and few of his books are as infamous as Blood Meridian. Harold Bloom called it “not only the ultimate Western [but] the ultimate dark dramatization of violence,” while The New York Times wrote that the novel “comes at the reader like a slap in the face.”Filled with brutal violence and surreal lyricism, Blood Meridian is undeniably a tough act to follow.

1 month ago | earlybirdbooks.com | Orrin Grey |Dorothy Davis |Jeffrey Archer |Dorothy L. Sayers

When we think of great mystery stories, our minds tend to go to the many, many mystery novels packed on the shelves of bookstores, libraries, and probably our own homes.

1 month ago | earlybirdbooks.com | Orrin Grey |Jonathan Starr |Booker T. Washington |David Means

Tara Westover was raised in isolation and homeschooled by her survivalist Mormon parents in Buck’s Peak, Idaho. At the age of 17, with no formal education, she started college at Brigham Young University, eventually studying abroad and completing a PhD in history from Cambridge.

1 month ago | the-line-up.com | Orrin Grey

It was an October night in 1928 when a patrolling police officer found a man lying face down near the Fountain Gate of London’s Hyde Park. The man was an unemployed, 28-year-old Welsh carpenter named Robert Williams, and he was bleeding from an apparently self-inflicted wound in his neck, a bloody razor on the ground nearby. As the patrolman bent to offer aid, however, Williams made an utterance that added a chilling new dimension to the already grisly tableau.

2 months ago | unwinnable.com | Orrin Grey

I see board games in the store and they always look so cool and then I buy them and bring them home, I’m so excited to open them, and then I play them, like, twice… This column is dedicated to the love of games for those of us whose eyes may be bigger than our stomachs when it comes to playing, and the joy that we can all take from games, even if we don’t play them very often. ———I’ve mentioned before that King of Tokyo is probably my favorite board game of all time.