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The Original

For someone who said back in February they didn’t like sci-fi, I sure as hell am reading an awful lot of sci-fi

The Original by Brandon Sanderson, Mary Robinette Kowal

August 5, 2021 by postcardsandbooks 8 Comments

I have to confess I picked this book to read just because I was having a hard time finding a book with a cityscape on the cover. And this cityscape might be a little stylized, but there’s a reason for that and I’ll get into it, but let’s take a moment to celebrate Book Bingo incentivizing me to read. Hooray. The Original is a novella that was produced specifically to be launched as an audiobook, and I honestly love that concept. While I don’t think […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction, Short Stories Tagged With: brandon sanderson, Brandon Sanderson, Mary Robinette Kowal, cbr13bingo, Mary Robinette Kowal

postcardsandbooks's CBR13 Review No:39 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Short Stories · Tags: brandon sanderson, Brandon Sanderson, Mary Robinette Kowal, cbr13bingo, Mary Robinette Kowal ·
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klara and the sun

Why does everyone just accept everything the AI says?

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

August 5, 2021 by postcardsandbooks 3 Comments

So this book was an impulse buy. I saw the hardback at Waterstones with £3 off and it was just so pretty. Plus, Ishiguro won the Nobel Prize in Literature and I’d never read anything by him before, so had to have it. It was on my “near future” TBR until I read andtheIToldYouSos’s lovely review, which catapulted it straight to my “next read” slot. 🙂 Let me start a quick summary of the book: Klara is an AF, or Artificial Friend, who are sun-powered […]

Filed Under: Speculative Fiction Tagged With: cbr13bingo, Kazuo Ishiguro

postcardsandbooks's CBR13 Review No:38 · Genres: Speculative Fiction · Tags: cbr13bingo, Kazuo Ishiguro ·
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The Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde reminds us that fairytales are not supposed to look like Disney

Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde: In Aid of the Royal Theatrical Fund by Oscar Wilde

August 5, 2021 by postcardsandbooks 1 Comment

One of the good things to come out of the pandemic was the various ways artistic organizations came together to fundraise in a time where theaters were closed. I have lost count, for example, of how many performances of the Royal Opera House Ballet I’ve watched from the comfort of my own home. I know it’s really an overall sad thing how un-secure  (I somehow don’t think insecure was the appropriate word here, even though it probably was) artists and freelancers’ living is, but the […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fiction Tagged With: cbr13bingo, oscar wilde

postcardsandbooks's CBR13 Review No:37 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction · Tags: cbr13bingo, oscar wilde ·
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A Promised Land

So much careful reflection, such a treat :)

A Promised Land by Barack Obama

August 4, 2021 by postcardsandbooks 2 Comments

So I warn you that this review will have an extremely liberal internationalist bias, and I don’t want to create unnecessary drama, which politics will inevitably do sometimes. So feel free to skip this review if you don’t want to read about this. We’re all book lovers, let’s be civil 🙂 I’m not sure if I have mentioned this before, but most days I drive to work with a friend, and we always listen to an audiobook 🙂 And because this is a long book […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir Tagged With: Barack Obama, cbr13bingo

postcardsandbooks's CBR13 Review No:36 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: Barack Obama, cbr13bingo ·
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What a rollercoaster…

An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon

August 3, 2021 by postcardsandbooks 2 Comments

So I didn’t know this book had been last year’s cannon book club pick until I just finished it about an hour ago and conflicted about how I felt about it, decided to search for reviews so I could read how other people felt about it. And WOW, guys. You did not disappoint. I read about 8 reviews and I almost feel like writing anything would be useless at this point because you have said it all. And I could easily just pick and choose […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: cbr13bingo, Rivers Solomon

postcardsandbooks's CBR13 Review No:35 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: cbr13bingo, Rivers Solomon ·
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Notes on a Nervous Planet

This book was supposed to help with my anxiety – not exacerbate it

Notes on a Nervous Planet by Matt Haig

July 5, 2021 by postcardsandbooks 2 Comments

Watch me use my exceptional capacity of being a slacker to my own advantage when I profit off my backlog of 10+ unreviewed books to tick boxes off the CBR Bingo card like it’s nobody’s business. This was not planned, by the way – I’m just a slacker by nature. And to be honest, this is actually very much in line with the theme for this particular book, which is supposed to be all about managing anxiety. For those of you who don’t know Matt […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: cbr13bingo, Matt Haig, self care bingo

postcardsandbooks's CBR13 Review No:34 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: cbr13bingo, Matt Haig, self care bingo ·
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