narfna – Page 129 – Cannonball Read 17

“What you get out of being loved, it’s supposed to be worth the compromise. When it’s good, it makes you want to compromise.” #CBRBingo – Yellow

Take a Hint, Dani Brown (The Brown Sisters, #2) by Talia Hibbert

October 28, 2020 by narfna Leave a Comment

Yet another lovely book by Talia Hibbert, and again, upping to five stars because the audiobook version was so much fun to listen to. It’s hard for me to review books I just respond instinctually to. Something about it just clicked with me. I love Hibbert’s voice as a writer (she’s so funny!). I love the way she seems to so effortlessly create characters that come to life in my mind so easily, even the secondary and tertiary ones. I love the way that she […]

This one was a win for me!

When No One Is Watching by Alyssa Cole

October 28, 2020 by narfna 3 Comments

This was a little funky in places, a little shaky on its feet, but overall I really enjoyed reading it. This is billed as a thriller, but it also has elements of romance, horror, and mystery in it. I was super stoked when I heard Alyssa Cole was trying her hand at another genre (she normally writes romance, both historical and contemporary). I’ve been hit or miss with her books, particularly her contemporary stuff, so I was really curious to see what she could do […]

“You tell your lies and you think nobody knows. But there are two people who know. Yes – two people. One is le bon Dieu – and the other is Hercule Poirot.”

The Mystery of the Blue Train (Hercule Poirot, #6) by Agatha Christie

October 28, 2020 by narfna Leave a Comment

This one wasn’t my favorite, though I liked it quite a bit by the end. I had a hard time at first getting a handle on the arc of the story, and Poirot doesn’t come in until about chapter ten, so there are just a bunch of POV characters you’re introduced to before you have any context for why they’re important to the story. I fully realize this is a technique employed by many books I have enjoyed in the past, but there was something […]

This is my white whale if I were Ahab, and Ahab sort of went up to Moby Dick and gently poked it with a spear and then backed away over and over again for months, and the whale just sat there looking at him, going, seriously? #CBRBingo – White Whale

The Will to Battle (Terra Ignota, #3) by Ada Palmer

October 28, 2020 by narfna 2 Comments

This one was a trial. I read the first book in this series back in August of 2017. It overwhelmed me, and I waited over six months before I read the second one, which added trauma on top of the whelming. At this point, book three was out, and I knew I’d had a hard time remembering details because of the wait I’d created for myself in between books one and two, so the smart thing was to go straight into three. I had it […]

The Cosmere Re-Read Strikes Again #CBRBingo – Gateway

Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson

October 27, 2020 by narfna Leave a Comment

One of Brandon Sanderson’s few standalones (for now), Warbreaker very much holds up on re-read. It takes place on a planet whose Investiture (sorry, Cosmere term) means that every person born has one Breath. The existence of Breaths has become a mostly spiritual issue, and one also about power. Breaths can be sold or given away, and the more Breaths one person holds, the more power they have. People with more Breath experience the world with heightened senses, and have the power to Awaken inanimate […]

“We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.”

Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

October 27, 2020 by narfna Leave a Comment

I was given this book as a birthday present about six years ago by my friend Lindsay and it has been languishing on my shelves ever since. Enter 2020, the Read Harder Challenge, and whatever the fuck else has been going on this year that means I’m reading more from my own shelves than anywhere else. And I’m glad I finally got around to it! This is an over 600 page literary fiction book, but it reads in the way I like my literary fiction […]

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