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The only reason I read so much is because Cannonball Read has gamified reading and because I hate losing. Give me a fantasy novel with a unique magical system, and I'm happy. (Learn more about this Cannonballer: Mobius_Walker's Quick Questions interview.)

Mobius_Walker's Reviews:

If I didn’t already have one DNF on my BINGO sheet, I would have quit this one

Lost in the Never Woods by Aiden Thomas

August 20, 2021 by Mobius_Walker 2 Comments

BINGO – They, She, He (the author is trans) I read Aiden Thomas’ other novel Cemetery Boys earlier this year, and I cannot imagine that it will be knocked out of my top 5 favorite novels that I read in 2021. My expectations were very high going in to Lost in the Never Woods, and unfortunately, those expectations were not met. Lost in the Never Woods is a reimaging of the Peter Pan story set in modern times. Peter Pan is real much to the consternation of […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: Aiden Thomas, audibook, cbr13bingo, Peter Pan, wendy darling

Mobius_Walker's CBR13 Review No:50 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: Aiden Thomas, audibook, cbr13bingo, Peter Pan, wendy darling ·
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A few slow moments but overall worth pushing through

The Midnight Bargain by C. L. Polk

August 19, 2021 by Mobius_Walker 2 Comments

BINGO – Free (picked up from my local library) Beatrice Clayborn must get married. She must. Getting married is the only way to save her family from financial ruin. But to get married means that she will have to give up her passion and goals: to become a great mage and the first female mage. Complicating her situation further is Ianthe Lavan, an extremely wealthy, handsome, compassionate man determined to win her hand in marriage, and his sister Ysbeta who wants the same things as […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: c.l. polk, cbr13bingo, magic, social commentary, Spirits

Mobius_Walker's CBR13 Review No:49 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: c.l. polk, cbr13bingo, magic, social commentary, Spirits ·
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Embrace the Absurd!

The Stranger by Albert Camus

August 18, 2021 by Mobius_Walker 2 Comments

BINGO – People Meursault learns that his mother has just died. This news has no discernible effect on him other than he requests off from work to attend her funeral and burial. He displays no typically displays of grief and returns promptly to his life; hardly anything has changed. He starts dating an old acquaintance; he helps his friend with some relationship problems; he goes on vacation. Then, Meursault murders a man. All of the recent events and Meursault’s character are discussed and argued over […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: absurd, absurdism, albert camus, cbr13bingo, novella, Philosophy

Mobius_Walker's CBR13 Review No:48 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: absurd, absurdism, albert camus, cbr13bingo, novella, Philosophy ·
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Humans fight dinosaurs in space; don’t think too much and enjoy the ride

Steel World by B. V. Larson

August 13, 2021 by Mobius_Walker 5 Comments

BINGO – Machinery (and my first completed Bingo!) You know those movies whose trailer you watch the first time and you think, “Who gave that the green-light? That looks so dumb.” And the second trailer comes out and you think, “Okay, maybe that looks kind of fun but still. There’s no way I’m going to see it.” And then you see a trailer one more time and finally relent to think, “Yeah, sure, that looks fun and dumb; I’m in!” That was Steel World. It was […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: Aliens, B. V. Larson, cbr13bingo, dinosaurs, mercenaries

Mobius_Walker's CBR13 Review No:47 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: Aliens, B. V. Larson, cbr13bingo, dinosaurs, mercenaries ·
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In which I finally rectify having never read an American master of writing

Beloved by Toni Morrison

August 13, 2021 by Mobius_Walker Leave a Comment

[TW: violence against children, racial slurs, depictions of slavery, abuse] BINGO – UnCannon In high school I took two AP English classes. In college, I took a Comparative Western Literature course. Toni Morrison was not on any of my reading lists for those courses despite the fact that Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature and that Beloved was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1987 and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988. Perhaps, Morrison is not read more at […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fiction Tagged With: cbr13bingo, civil war, magical realism, Slavery, Toni Morrison, Trigger Warnings, tw, violence

Mobius_Walker's CBR13 Review No:46 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction · Tags: cbr13bingo, civil war, magical realism, Slavery, Toni Morrison, Trigger Warnings, tw, violence ·
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Cover of Tana French's The Searcher

I want to go to the Irish countryside now, but ONLY to visit

The Searcher by Tana French

August 6, 2021 by Mobius_Walker 4 Comments

BINGO – REC’D I enjoyed author Tana French’s novel In the Woods and then msvreadsbooks’ review sold me on picking up another French novel The Searcher. Cal Hooper is a retired detective from Chicago who recently bought and moved into a run-down house in a small rural Irish town. He’s determined to keep his head low, not make any enemies of the locals, and enjoy some peace and quiet away from it all. What a boring book that would have been if that’s all that happened. Soon after […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: cbr13bingo, countryside, Ireland, Tana French

Mobius_Walker's CBR13 Review No:45 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction, Mystery · Tags: cbr13bingo, countryside, Ireland, Tana French ·
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