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About borisanne

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She reads. She sort of writes. She hikes with the dog. She watches TV. She cooks and bakes like a champ.

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Resources, as they say, become available.

August 23, 2017 by borisanne Leave a Comment

Ben Aaronovitch’s “Rivers of London”/PC Peter Grant series continues – and completes, unless he’s planning on returning to this form after The Hanging Tree, which is next, and a standard novel – its dip into the medium of graphic novel with Night Witch, with a very mytharc-y story. Again, sorry if “mytharc” is a thing non-X-Files fans don’t say. Anyway, because it’s a story that is much more linkable to the overall arc of the series than Body Work was, I much prefer it, if […]

Filed Under: Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: aaronovitch, abdul haqq walid, Andrew Cartmel, Ben Aaronovitch, beverly brook, Cartmel, cbr9, faceless man, lesley may, London, notmymolly, pc peter grant, Peter Grant, thomas nightingale, Urban Fantasy, varvara sidorovna tamonina

borisanne's CBR9 Review No:36 · Genres: Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: aaronovitch, abdul haqq walid, Andrew Cartmel, Ben Aaronovitch, beverly brook, Cartmel, cbr9, faceless man, lesley may, London, notmymolly, pc peter grant, Peter Grant, thomas nightingale, Urban Fantasy, varvara sidorovna tamonina ·
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We do not have the right to feel helpless.

August 23, 2017 by borisanne 4 Comments

This is going to be the hardest and, at the same time, the easiest review I’ve ever written. To put it bluntly, Tiny Beautiful Things must be required reading for anyone who is a human. Full disclosure: when my husband left me, I didn’t talk about it for a long while except with him (it was a mostly one-sided conversation) and a handful of very close confidantes. When I opened up my circle of trust, I found what I should have realized sooner was a […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: advice, art isn't anecdote, cbr9, Cheryl Strayed, Dear Sugar, rest home for crazy bitches, strayed, Sugar, we are here to build the house

borisanne's CBR9 Review No:35 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: advice, art isn't anecdote, cbr9, Cheryl Strayed, Dear Sugar, rest home for crazy bitches, strayed, Sugar, we are here to build the house ·
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Your friendly neighborhood late medieval manor house often had a fish pond.

August 23, 2017 by borisanne Leave a Comment

It’s been years and years and years since the last time I read a graphic novel, and this may sound crazy, but I was actually a little nervous about whether I’d be comfortable enough with the format to make this transition in the Peter Grant series. Body Work is the continuation of the “Rivers of London”/PC Peter Grant series from Ben Aaronovitch. I mis-copied the info, and I thought that Body Work belonged after Foxglove Summer, but there’s an indication that it comes after Broken […]

Filed Under: Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: aaronovitch, Andrew Cartmel, Ben Aaronovitch, Cartmel, cbr9, haunted car, London, matthew dow smith, notmymolly, pc peter grant, Peter Grant, Rivers of London, thomas nightengale, Urban Fantasy

borisanne's CBR9 Review No:34 · Genres: Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: aaronovitch, Andrew Cartmel, Ben Aaronovitch, Cartmel, cbr9, haunted car, London, matthew dow smith, notmymolly, pc peter grant, Peter Grant, Rivers of London, thomas nightengale, Urban Fantasy ·
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Maybe you’re trying to distract yourself.

August 12, 2017 by borisanne Leave a Comment

You know when you have a long stretch of five star reviews and you start to wonder, are my standards super low? Does everything delight me? Am I some kind of a hack reader that just loves everything that passes in front of my eyes? Well, if you have these concerns, may I highly recommend The Marvelous Misadventures of Ingrid Winter to you. It will alleviate all of those suspicions, because it’s seriously the worst, and no one could possibly like it. How on earth […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: academia, drangsholt, ingrid winter, js drangsholt, kremlin, Norway, pretty putin, real estate, Russia, tehom, translation

borisanne's CBR9 Review No:33 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: academia, drangsholt, ingrid winter, js drangsholt, kremlin, Norway, pretty putin, real estate, Russia, tehom, translation ·
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Some moments are beyond imagination.

August 5, 2017 by borisanne 2 Comments

Okay, I’m back. I haven’t lost my mind, or my grip on reality. Everything’s fine. It took me a long time to read this final installment of “The Dark Tower” series. Sure, it’s super long, but it’s shorter than a few of the other installments. I just truly didn’t want it to end, so I stretched it out, found distractions and procrastinations, and delayed the inevitable. This final chapter is less full of revelation, and doesn’t so closely ressemble a conspiracy theorist’s corkboard with pushpins […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction Tagged With: aaron deepneau, Arthur, beam, bear, blue heaven, casse roi russe, cbr9, clearing at the end of the path, crimson king, dandelo, deschain, detta, discordia, dogan, eld, fantasy, fedick, Fiction, gan, gun, Gunslinger, horror, irene tassenbaum, jake chambers, john chambers, john cullum, keystone, King, mordred, moses carver, odetta, oy, Oz, patrick danville, richard sayre, roland, Rose, science fiction, Stephen King, stuttering bill, susannah, thunderclap, todash, Turtle, walter, walter o'dim

borisanne's CBR9 Review No:32 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction · Tags: aaron deepneau, Arthur, beam, bear, blue heaven, casse roi russe, cbr9, clearing at the end of the path, crimson king, dandelo, deschain, detta, discordia, dogan, eld, fantasy, fedick, Fiction, gan, gun, Gunslinger, horror, irene tassenbaum, jake chambers, john chambers, john cullum, keystone, King, mordred, moses carver, odetta, oy, Oz, patrick danville, richard sayre, roland, Rose, science fiction, Stephen King, stuttering bill, susannah, thunderclap, todash, Turtle, walter, walter o'dim ·
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You’ll write many stories, but every one will be to some greater or lesser degree about this story.

July 24, 2017 by borisanne 1 Comment

I am, in all honesty and with true sincerity, starting to question reality. Remember when I read The Drawing of the Three (Dark Tower #2) and complained that King needs an editor because he shouldn’t be referring to his own work (the film version of The Shining) as content experienced by new characters in this totally different world? And then I read Wizard and Glass (Dark Tower #4) and I was like, “TUBE NECK HOW DARE YOU?!” but then totally turned around on it, and […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: 9/11, ake ake, beam, bear, billy bumbler, black 13, black thirteen, Dark Tower, deschain, detta, dinh, dixie pig, donald callahan, eddie, fedick, Gilead, jake, john chambers, john collum, KA, ka-tet, King, low men, maine, manni, mia, north central positronics, odetta, oy, pere callahan, randall flagg, richard sayre, roland, sköldpadda, sombra corporation, Stephen King, susannah, tet corporation, the beam, Turtle, turtleback lane, vampire, walk-ins, world trade center

borisanne's CBR9 Review No:31 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: 9/11, ake ake, beam, bear, billy bumbler, black 13, black thirteen, Dark Tower, deschain, detta, dinh, dixie pig, donald callahan, eddie, fedick, Gilead, jake, john chambers, john collum, KA, ka-tet, King, low men, maine, manni, mia, north central positronics, odetta, oy, pere callahan, randall flagg, richard sayre, roland, sköldpadda, sombra corporation, Stephen King, susannah, tet corporation, the beam, Turtle, turtleback lane, vampire, walk-ins, world trade center ·
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