Check your numbers! Check your Badges! Thank you so much for playing the Book Bingo Reading Challenge this year. This one almost didn’t happen. It was only because of persistent kindness from MsWas, and lots of help from yesknopemaybe, teresaelectro, faintingviolet, andtheIToldYouSos, and Rachel W that it happened at all. Every bingo post, whether you posted one review or completed your card, felt like a victory. Ale – 9 reviews, 1 Bingo anana – 5 reviews andtheIToldYouSos – 10 reviews ardaigle – Blackout BlackRaven – Blackout booktrovert – Blackout […]
Wake: to transition from sleep; a gathering before the funeral, the track left by a moving body
The Red Scholar’s Wake by Aliette de Bodard
2022 continues to be the reading year of grief and trauma, which is no surprise giving everything that has been going on in the world for, well, a really long time. I can see how the generational trauma of colonialism has informed this universe. As I read, it became clear that Aliette de Bodard was playing with the word ‘wake’ in the title, The Red Scholar’s Wake. Wake: to transition from sleep; a gathering before the funeral, the track left by a moving body. Huân, […]
CBR14 Bingo – Week 17 Check-in
Welcome to the Week 17 CBR 14 Bingo Check-in! You can see the card and the rules on the kick-off post. This week’s mood: WHAT EVEN IS TIME? How did this happen? 5 days left!! We end at midnight eastern time on Monday, November 14 Please check your tags and make sure you are using cbr14bingo. Ale – 8 reviews, 1 Bingo anana – 5 reviews andtheIToldYouSos – 10 reviews ardaigle – 12 reviews, 1 Bingo BlackRaven – Blackout booktrovert – Blackout Classic – Blackout CoffeeShopReader – Blackout Debcapsfan – 1 review Dome’Loki – […]
I love watching an author grow
Calling the Shots by Kelly Farmer
Kelly Farmer’s Calling the Shots is a solidly entertaining and emotional contemporary sapphic romance. This is the third in her On the Ice series about professional women’s hockey players. She’s gotten stronger and more confident with each book. The characters are more comfortably layered and complex and the push/pull of Regan and Tierney relationship flows easily, even the third act break-up. Regan Lane has gone from being a professional women’s hockey megastar, to an assistant coach for a middling professional men’s hockey team. She has […]
Can’t leave justice up to God.
Tread of Angels by Rebecca Roanhorse
It took me a minute to wrap my head around Rebecca Roanhorse’s fantasy western novella, Tread of Angels. Some part of my brain is still immersed in her Between Earth and Sky series so I was a bit resistant to the Western town setting. But, as always, Roanhorse delivers a gripping story. Celeste Semyaza and her sister, Mariel, are half-Fallen (their mother was descended from the Fallen Angels) in the mining town of Goetia. Celest can pass as an Elect, and deals cards at Eden. […]
You’re my beloved skitstövel (sh*t boot).
Ship Wrecked by Olivia Dade
Ship Wrecked starts with orgasms and then becomes a slow burn. Olivia Dade’s Spoiler Alert series has centered around a Game of Thrones-esque tv series called Gods of the Gates. In Spoiler Alert and All the Feels, we’ve seen Maria and Peter, two of the actors, flirt and banter in cast interviews and group chats. I try not to develop expectations about how a book is going to go, but even so, I was not expecting Peter and Maria’s journey to relationship. There’s one particular moment […]
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