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CBR Bingo: A new Series and a recommendation!

Stealing from Wizards Volume 1: Pickpocketing by R.A.Consell

Stealing From Wizards Volume 2: Burglary by R.A Consell

October 24, 2021 by persnickety chick Leave a Comment

I thought this would be one of the hardest categories for me to meet for bingo- but this series was first published in November 2019, so New series it is. I picked this up on the recommendation of Epbot- and am very glad i did. It is about Kuro, a young boy living on the fringes of magical society in Canada. He primarily lives in a magic city that connects with different real world places. He serves a dark magician who has fallen on very […]

CBR Bingo- What does home mean?

Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire

Down among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire

October 24, 2021 by persnickety chick 1 Comment

This fills the Home square of the CBR Bingo card quite nicely! It’s taken me a long time to get around to reading the Wayward Children series and i actually started with book 2- Down among the sticks and bones. Wayward children is about a school/home for children who have been “taken into fairyland”. There are many lands, all of them different from outs. There is a rough schematic of how these worlds fall relative to each other- between logic and nonsense and virtue and […]

A modern view of Greek myths

Circe by Madeline Miller

October 10, 2021 by persnickety chick Leave a Comment

This was a double book club book for me. My college book club picked it, and then my local club read it as well (because I suggested it). So Book Club square on the Bingo for this one. I was vaguely aware of the story of Circe from the Odyssey, she was a sorceress on an island that Odysseus and his ships stopped at, and she turned the men to pigs. This is (apparently) a feminist retelling. As it is a retelling of an old […]

Another view of Australian history

A room made of leaves by Kate Grenville

October 10, 2021 by persnickety chick Leave a Comment

My local book club chose A room made of leaves by Kate Grenville for our last meeting. This was totally going to be a bingo square for book club, and then i realised the flora on the cover. So, Flora bingo space it is!It’s an odd little book club, started by a group of women who went to teacher training college in the late 60s. They remained in intermittent/inconsistent touch with each other, forming the book club a few years ago. Then the daughter of […]

Comfort rereading for a reading slump

Penric’s Demon by Lois McMaster Bujold

Penric and the Shaman by Lois McMaster Bujold

Penric’s Fox by Lois McMaster Bujold

Masquerade in Lodi by Lois McMaster Bujold

Penric’s Mission by Lois McMaster Bujold

Mira’s Last Dance by Lois McMaster Bujold

The Prisoner of Limnos by Lois McMaster Bujold

The Orphans of Raspay by Lois McMaster Bujold

The Physicians of Vilnoc by Lois McMaster Bujold

The Assassins of Thasalon by Lois McMaster Bujold

June 27, 2021 by persnickety chick 2 Comments

I have been in a bit of a reading slump. Lots of stress and other distractions. But the news that one of my favourite authors had published a new novel in the Penric series got me reading! I bought the novel, zipped through it and then reread the whole series. Most of the titles are fairly long novellas, only the last has been noted as a novel, but they are long novellas. The series follows a young man who accidentally acquires a demon and becomes […]

Escaping for an afternoon

I pucking love you by Pippa Grant

Crazy for loving you: a Bluewater billionaires romantic comedy by Pippa Grant

April 13, 2021 by persnickety chick Leave a Comment

Happy escapism and silliness Two books, in different series, but by the same author and featuring brothers as their respective heroes. I started reading Pippa Grant on an epic 40 hour trek from Australia to a farmhouse in France (back in 2019, before the pandemic). I don’t know how that first book ended up on my kindle, but I spent a bit of time in Singapore getting several more onto my kindle before we flew onwards (Brisbane to Singapore is apparently 7 1/2 hours). I […]

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