Woohooo. CBR gift exchaaaange. Every year I ask if I should, I mean, do I need more books? But the excitement of something fun in the mail AND the chance to gift someone else always wins out and here I am. Big thank you to debcapsfan for giving me to books in my to read pile that I am very excited about and had sort of forgotten were there, making them the perfect gifts. Will be jumping into one of them as soon as a wrap […]
Archives for December 2021
Book Exchange for me!
These look interesting. Thanks to KatSings!
A doorway to a beautifully built new world
Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
How do you care for your daughter after she returns from the Land of the Dead? If you’re Nancy’s parents, you take her to Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children. Thus begins Every Heart a Doorway. Nancy is delivered to her new home to get better when all she wants is to return to the world she stumbled upon years ago. As does everyone else under Eleanor’s care. She takes care of and helps those children who have crossed over to other worlds and want nothing […]
Baking through the UK Seasons
A Bake for All Seasons by Paul Hollywood, Prue Leith, the 2021 Bakers
I confess to being a little disappointed in the 2020 Great British Baking Show/Bake Off cookbook; it was pretty and had recipes from the bakers and judges, but very little that wasn’t show stopper-y, as in it would take all day at least and only in large quantity, and not keep well. I am happy to report that the 2021 installment, A Bake for All Seasons looks much more promising. As the title might suggest, this one is organized based on the principle of seasonality […]
All of Us as in 4 of 7 Villains
All of Us Villains by Amanda Food, Christine Lynn Herman
I saw a blurb somewhere describing All of Us Villains as ‘the Hunger Games with magic’; that’s accurate, but I think this one is more. The premise is that recently a book has leaked a lot of information about a local secret to the press: once a generation, the seven leading families in Ilvernath select a champion to compete in a tournament to decide who gets to control the scant magical resources for the upcoming generation. Basically the only way to win is to kill […]
“It’s not unlike filtration, a move that blatant, deliberate. “
Sleep Donation by Karen Russell
In the near-future, we lucky Americans are eyeball-deep in a new terror: we can’t sleep. Every day, thousands more become unable to reach REM. They die after days of restlessness. The only thing that can help? Donations of sleep from “healthy” dreamers. Not unlike a blood drive, people like Trish Edgewater are cold-calling sleepers, begging them to give some of their life to the lifeless. Etiquette is a powerful programming, however, and easily exploitable. I sneeze. He sneezes back language at me, reflexive generosity: “Bless […]
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