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About PulpoPerdida

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Inveterate Pajiba lurker who is jumping head first into the CBR fray. I may or may not be an octopus lost in a garage

PulpoPerdida's Reviews:

This is not the Anne Boleyn you are looking for

Six Tudor Queens: Anne Boleyn, A King's Obsession by Alison Weir

July 11, 2020 by PulpoPerdida Leave a Comment

One of my great guilty pleasures these days is books and media related to Tudor history. It feels like a very specific combination of nerdy and basic to admit that you are super into Anne Boleyn and friends (too obvious for your average history buff, too esoteric for everyone else). But oh boy am I into it. The story of Henry the Eighth and his many wives has got more sex, death and twists than a soap opera and the best thing is that it […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History Tagged With: #Tudors, Alison Weir, Anne Boleyn, cbr12, Fiction, historical fiction

PulpoPerdida's CBR12 Review No:2 · Genres: Fiction, History · Tags: #Tudors, Alison Weir, Anne Boleyn, cbr12, Fiction, historical fiction ·
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The Poppy War (Not Your Parent’s Light Fantasy Escapism)

The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang

April 26, 2020 by PulpoPerdida 5 Comments

The Poppy War is a hard book to say you recommend. It’s well written, for sure. But the last few chapters are, without giving anything away, excruciating. I had been warned this was the case, but yet I still found myself staying up one night, and reading the final section with increasing horror. Reader, be warned, this is a wonderfully written book, with one hell of a trigger warning. The start of the book is classic enough. Rin is a poor orphan girl from the […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: #fantasy, cbr12, Fiction, R.F. Kuang, ReadWomen, the poppy war

PulpoPerdida's CBR12 Review No:1 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: #fantasy, cbr12, Fiction, R.F. Kuang, ReadWomen, the poppy war ·
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The Power, by Naomi Alderman (A belated start to CBR11)

The Power by Naomi Alderman

July 30, 2019 by PulpoPerdida 1 Comment

    I’ve been stuck in a weird reading hiatus recently. Weird for me because I’m normally the type of nerd who considers it bragging rights if I make it to 50 books in year. It’s an identity point for better or worse. However, for a lot reasons, (most of them uninteresting) I just…stopped for about a year and a half. I’m not completely sure what happened to all the time that I used to spend reading (Twitter definitely played more of a role than […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: #Science Fiction, cbr11, dystopian fiction, dystopian future, Fiction, naomi alderman

PulpoPerdida's CBR11 Review No:1 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: #Science Fiction, cbr11, dystopian fiction, dystopian future, Fiction, naomi alderman ·
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