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About Flimflamingo

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She/ ella. Riot grrrl librarian.

Flimflamingo's Reviews:

faint brush strokes evoking the image of an open human rib cage with the title You Feel It Just Below the Ribs

What Is “The Apocalypse” Anyway But Another Series of Bad Days, Or Same As It Ever Was, Or It’s Irrelevant

You Feel It Just Below the Ribs by Jeffrey Cranor & Janina Matthewson

November 19, 2023 by Flimflamingo 1 Comment

I can’t really explain it, but You Feel It Just Below the Ribs is a near five star book. I rated it 4.5 stars on Storygraph and I’m not quite sure why I didn’t rate it a 5. I want to… there’s something… but I want to. But I won’t. Because there’s something on the tip of my tongue or on the cusp of catchable thoughts that maybe I can’t articulate. Or maybe I’m just that much of a hard ass. There are a few things […]

Filed Under: Featured, Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: alternate history, Between the Wires, dystopia, epistolary, Janina Mathewson, Jeffrey Cranor, Jeffrey Cranor & Janina Matthewson, lesbian, lgbt, LGBTQ, LGBTQIA, queer, You Feel It Just Below the Ribs

Flimflamingo's CBR15 Review No:18 · Genres: Featured, Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: alternate history, Between the Wires, dystopia, epistolary, Janina Mathewson, Jeffrey Cranor, Jeffrey Cranor & Janina Matthewson, lesbian, lgbt, LGBTQ, LGBTQIA, queer, You Feel It Just Below the Ribs ·
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Book cover Starling House by Alix Harrow

The Hellmouth May/May Not Be Located in Kentucky Thanks to Miner Barons

Starling House by Alix E. Harrow

July 10, 2023 by Flimflamingo Leave a Comment

Let’s get it out of the way for the CBR Bingo this is row 2, column 1: Dwelling. My rating on Storygraph is 3.5 and we don’t have have decimals and fraction ratings here, but this isn’t something I’d rate a 4. In that case, I’m CBR rating it a 3. I tagged Starling House #StrangerThings and I also tagged it #GothicRomance and #MiningCountry and, in sum, that’s how I’d describe the genre and even plot of this book. This is one I wasn’t sure I’d stick […]

Filed Under: Horror Tagged With: alix e harrow, Alix Harrow, cbr15bingo, Gothic Romance, Haunted House, Heathcliff, kentucky, Mining Country, Starling House, Stranger Things

Flimflamingo's CBR15 Review No:19 · Genres: Horror · Tags: alix e harrow, Alix Harrow, cbr15bingo, Gothic Romance, Haunted House, Heathcliff, kentucky, Mining Country, Starling House, Stranger Things ·
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Walk book cover

Walking or Rolling As Praxis, Moving Slow for Liberation

Walk: Slow Down, Wake Up, and Connect at 1-3 Miles Per Hour by Jonathon Stalls

June 27, 2023 by Flimflamingo 2 Comments

Walk is a book I picked up for work as in it was self-assigned professional development reading. Unlike the vast vast majority of the books I read for work this one wasn’t about my work. It wasn’t ” The Literature” (i.e., scholarship, reference texts, manuals/ guides) or professional learning text. It’s a general reader book. A popular title. That’s the way the royal “we” would refer to it. It’s a book I read for work because it’s a book other people read and talk about. It’s […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: inclusive, intrinsic paths, jonathon stalls, LGBTQ, LGBTQIA, lgbtqia2s+, moving slow, pedestrian dignity, roll, walk, walk2connect

Flimflamingo's CBR15 Review No:17 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: inclusive, intrinsic paths, jonathon stalls, LGBTQ, LGBTQIA, lgbtqia2s+, moving slow, pedestrian dignity, roll, walk, walk2connect ·
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Two book covers side by side Unfortunate side effects of heartbreak magic and witch of wild things

A Tale of Two Nearly Identical Books, Or Cozy Witch Com Books By The Numbers

The Unfortunate Side Effects of Heartbreak Magic by Breanne Randall

Witch of Wild Things by Raquel Vazquez Gilliand

June 24, 2023 by Flimflamingo 1 Comment

I started with one of these books because I just needed a cozy witchy book with some small town and some herbs and some love story that ends in HEA or maybe not, maybe the romance is the B Plot, maybe they just bat eyelashes and it ends with hope. Then I ditched that book 50% of the way in because, Dear Reader, it was upsetting and whatever the opposite of charming is. I had the other on deck and, based solely on the cover and a quick […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Romance Tagged With: Breanne Randall, magic, practical magic, Raquel Vazquez Gilliand, same story, two books, unfortunate side effects of heartbreak magic, witch of wild things, witches

Flimflamingo's CBR15 Review No:16 · Genres: Fantasy, Romance · Tags: Breanne Randall, magic, practical magic, Raquel Vazquez Gilliand, same story, two books, unfortunate side effects of heartbreak magic, witch of wild things, witches ·
· 1 Comment
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The Well-Intentioned White Feminist’s Version of Community Is Kinda… [insert eyeroll emoji here]

Community Board by Tara Conklin

June 19, 2023 by Flimflamingo 8 Comments

A few years ago I made a deal with myself that I would never apply a star rating to a book that I would have scored < 3 (ETA this note that I mean “less than 3 stars” rather than [heart emoji]). I also went through my entire Goodreads (then pretty prolific) and deleted every single written review, leaving only the star ratings. Short of a book that I found particularly offensive that I thought should require content warnings, I had no written reviews and […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: community board, post pandemic, Tara Conklin, white feminism

Flimflamingo's CBR15 Review No:14 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: community board, post pandemic, Tara Conklin, white feminism ·
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Sharp-Dressed Cats, Angels, Murder, Noir that Stands Apart

Even Though I Knew the End by CL Polk

June 17, 2023 by Flimflamingo 2 Comments

I feel like I came to Even Though I Knew the End by CL Polk late even though it’s still a relatively new release. I also started it, had to pause because I had to read for work on deadline, and then picked up where I left off… but only after my required reading made it abundantly clear that, by comparison, this book is amazing. That said, it moved slower for me than others and perhaps that affected my overall rating for it. This is a novella that […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Mystery Tagged With: angel, angels, cl polk, demon, demons, Even Though I Knew the End, lesbian, LGBTQ, LGBTQIA, murder, queer, sapphic, serial murder

Flimflamingo's CBR15 Review No:13 · Genres: Fantasy, Mystery · Tags: angel, angels, cl polk, demon, demons, Even Though I Knew the End, lesbian, LGBTQ, LGBTQIA, murder, queer, sapphic, serial murder ·
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