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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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“We’re both exiles, she’d thought, right then, and had hated herself for thinking it. She’d been gone a few months. She had no right to the name. She was home. She wasn’t, and she knew it. (There was no such place any longer.)”

A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2) by Arkady Martine

October 29, 2021 by narfna 2 Comments

What a great series, top to bottom. I don’t even want to talk about it. (Or, I want to talk about it for five hours straight.) I kind of already want to re-read. If you like science fiction, this is a must read. It’s so self-assured, so smart, so well put together, so full of heart and yet also full of thinking. It’s so hard to find an author who can stimulate both my thinking brain and my feeling brain, and Arkady Martine is a […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: #Science Fiction, A Desolation Called Peace, arkady martine, first contact, narfna, sci-fi, space opera, Teixcalaan

narfna's CBR13 Review No:158 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: #Science Fiction, A Desolation Called Peace, arkady martine, first contact, narfna, sci-fi, space opera, Teixcalaan ·
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A good ending! But still not as good as the first one.

Any Way the Wind Blows (Simon Snow, #3) by Rainbow Rowell

October 29, 2021 by narfna Leave a Comment

I will be honest. I do not want to review this book. First of all, I liked it. And I liked it better than the second one. It felt so comfortable to be back in England (and at Watford!) with these characters, and I was satisfied by all their endings, even the ones I didn’t see coming. But it also gave me a couple things I’ve been wanting since book one, so on that front I was very happy as well. There was resolution for […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Young Adult Tagged With: #fantasy, any way the wind blows, narfna, Rainbow Rowell, simon snow, YA, Young Adult

narfna's CBR13 Review No:157 · Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult · Tags: #fantasy, any way the wind blows, narfna, Rainbow Rowell, simon snow, YA, Young Adult ·
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Triple Cannonballing with Annie Wilkes. #CBRBINGO – Gateway

Misery by Stephen King

October 27, 2021 by narfna Leave a Comment

There is some dated language and imagery in here that I don’t think King would use now (his modern books don’t ping anything for me) and that I don’t think I noticed last time, but overall this book is still great. This is the only Stephen King book (so far) that I’ve re-read. Eventually, once I finish up all his extant work (which could take me a while!) I will do a chronological re-read of all his books. That will be a project, for sure. […]

Filed Under: Horror, Suspense Tagged With: cbr13bingo, horror, misery, narfna, re-reads, Stephen King, Suspense

narfna's CBR13 Review No:156 · Genres: Horror, Suspense · Tags: cbr13bingo, horror, misery, narfna, re-reads, Stephen King, Suspense ·
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The eyes of a doe and the balls of a samurai.

The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher

October 27, 2021 by narfna Leave a Comment

I see why this book is so much lower rated than her other two memoirs. It’s kind of scattered, and half of it is devoted to her affair with Harrison Ford, which isn’t told in a juicy manner but in a self-reflecting one, and the diaries that detailed her experience of that affair. I get why she wanted to tell this story herself; she wanted to control the narrative. It’s just . . . not super fun to read about. My favorite parts of this […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #memoir, behind the scenes, carrie fisher, Hollywood, humor, narfna, non fiction, star wars, star wars: a new hope, the princess diarist

narfna's CBR13 Review No:155 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor, Non-Fiction · Tags: #memoir, behind the scenes, carrie fisher, Hollywood, humor, narfna, non fiction, star wars, star wars: a new hope, the princess diarist ·
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Baby’s first tie-in Star Trek novel.

Imzadi by Peter David

October 27, 2021 by narfna 2 Comments

This was supposedly a huge bestseller back in the day (1992). I gotta say, I don’t really get it. I think I missed the boat here. A while back I went looking for people’s favorite Star Trek novels and then found some of them in my local used bookstores. This was one of the three I ended up picking up, and as my first Star Trek tie-in novel, I could probably have done better. Or, maybe I’m just missing the cultural context. It’s thirty-years old […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: imzadi, narfna, Peter David, Star Trek, star trek the next generation, star trek tng, the next generation, tng, TV tie in

narfna's CBR13 Review No:154 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: imzadi, narfna, Peter David, Star Trek, star trek the next generation, star trek tng, the next generation, tng, TV tie in ·
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My general feelings for this book can be summed up as UGHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1) by Kim Stanley Robinson

October 27, 2021 by narfna Leave a Comment

I think I am allergic to Kim Stanley Robinson. Loved the idea behind this book, extremely disliked the execution. I tried reading 2312 years back, and similarly, any cool tingly science feelings I got from that book (which if I’m remembering right, starts with a moving, mechanized city on Mercury) was completely murdered by the boring as hell characters and lack of emotional through-line. I just remember the boredom with that one, but here I was not only bored but frustrated and annoyed by KSR’s attempt […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Science Fiction Tagged With: #Science Fiction, hard sci-fi, kim stanley robinson, mars, narfna, red mars, sci-fi

narfna's CBR13 Review No:153 · Genres: Audiobooks, Science Fiction · Tags: #Science Fiction, hard sci-fi, kim stanley robinson, mars, narfna, red mars, sci-fi ·
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