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Good evening, everyone. I'm Leslie Monster, and this is Nightline. (Learn more about this Cannonballer: narfna's Quick Questions interview.)

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Post your fave Craigy Ferg clips in the comments so we can have something nice to talk about instead :) #CBRBingo

October 30, 2018 by narfna 9 Comments

I feel guilty about this book. I stumped for it pretty hard in the Book Club vote, based on how much I loved Craig Ferguson’s memoir, American on Purpose, and his stand up, and his stint on The Late Late Show. (American on Purpose is still the best celebrity memoir I’ve ever read, FYI.) But, I did not like reading this book. His signature wit and profanity, his cheeky observational skills, things that I love about him, were not put to a purpose here that I could […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Between the Bridge and the River, CannonBookClub, cbr10bingo, craig ferguson, Fiction, narfna

narfna's CBR10 Review No:130 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Between the Bridge and the River, CannonBookClub, cbr10bingo, craig ferguson, Fiction, narfna ·
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Finally tackling a CBR book exchange book. #CBRBingo

October 29, 2018 by narfna 2 Comments

Really not sure why I waited three years in between reading books one and two. Especially since I’ve been on a Sherlock Holmes kick since January 2017 (still going strong!). And especially since MsWas was kind enough to send me books two, three, and four in the CBR Book Exchange that year. They’ve just been sitting here waiting for me! I think I kind of forgot why I liked the first book so much after I read it, and it wasn’t the mystery, or even the appearance […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: a monstrous regiment of women, Cannonball Book Exchange, cbr10bingo, feminism, historical fiction, laurie r. king, mary russell, Mswas, mystery, narfna, pastiche

narfna's CBR10 Review No:129 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: a monstrous regiment of women, Cannonball Book Exchange, cbr10bingo, feminism, historical fiction, laurie r. king, mary russell, Mswas, mystery, narfna, pastiche ·
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Okay I loved this but don’t read it until there’s more!!!

October 23, 2018 by narfna 6 Comments

What was that and give me the rest right now. I’ve been looking forward to reading this because even from the summary I could tell I was going to enjoy it, and also I loved C.S. Pacat’s Captive Prince trilogy. But I don’t think I was quite prepared for just how much fun I would have with this comic/manga hybrid (it was written with many of the techniques and tropes common in manga, even though pretty much everything else about it is western). Like, that […]

Filed Under: Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: c.s. pacat, Comics, fence, fence vol. 1, johanna the mad, narfna

narfna's CBR10 Review No:128 · Genres: Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: c.s. pacat, Comics, fence, fence vol. 1, johanna the mad, narfna ·
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“Well, he thought, so this is diplomacy. It’s lying, only for a better class of people.”

October 23, 2018 by narfna Leave a Comment

 “It was funny how people were people everywhere you went, even if the people concerned weren’t the people the people who made up the phrase ‘people are people everywhere’ had traditionally thought of as people.” I keep going back and forth over whether this should get the fifth star, and that back and forth is what’s keeping it at four (for now), but this is my favorite of these books since Hogfather. I very well may change my mind at any time and increase the […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Fantasy Tagged With: fantasy, humor, narfna, Satire, Terry Pratchett, the fifth elephant

narfna's CBR10 Review No:127 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Fantasy · Tags: fantasy, humor, narfna, Satire, Terry Pratchett, the fifth elephant ·
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Vol. 9 and still going strong.

October 23, 2018 by narfna 3 Comments

Should I just copy and paste things from my previous reviews of this series so as to just really hammer the point home? “Okay, so Ms. Marvel is probably my SECOND favorite comic, definitely my favorite superhero comic. I love Carol Danvers probably as much as I love Kamala Khan, but the last couple of Captain Marvel trades have fallen a little flat for me, and meanwhile G. Willow Wilson continues to absolutely KILL IT with Kamala.” -Me, three years ago “How does this series […]

Filed Under: Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: Comics, G Willow Wilson, Marvel Comics, ms. marvel, narfna, superheroes, teenage wasteland, vol. 9

narfna's CBR10 Review No:126 · Genres: Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: Comics, G Willow Wilson, Marvel Comics, ms. marvel, narfna, superheroes, teenage wasteland, vol. 9 ·
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My least favorite of the series, but still worth reading, if you liked the first three.

October 22, 2018 by narfna Leave a Comment

“Did you know,” said Patrick, addressing Seamus again, “that among the caribou herdsmen of Lapland, the top shaman gets to drink the urine of the reindeer that has eaten the magic mushrooms, and his assistant drinks the urine of the top shaman, and so on, all the way down to the lowest of the low who scramble in the snow, pleading for a splash of twelfth-generation caribou piss?” “I didn’t know that,” said Seamus flatly. “I thought it was your special field,” said Patrick, surprised. “Anyhow, […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Addiction, British literature, Edward St Aubyn, Literature, litfic, narfna, Patrick Melrose

narfna's CBR10 Review No:125 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Addiction, British literature, Edward St Aubyn, Literature, litfic, narfna, Patrick Melrose ·
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