A Welcome Reunion by Lucinda Berry
A while ago I just got a bunch of short stories for a discount. I finally read this, by Lucinda Berry, and realized it fit a square that I needed to fill in for a book bingo I am participating in. That said, this was bonkers, and didn't really work. I never read the longer novel that was part of … [Read more]
Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
Trigger warning: Rape Not going to lie, if I had read this last year, I would say, no way would the world do something like this, but now in the year of 2025, I doubt there would be any reluctance for people as long as they got their meat. Honestly, not too much to say here. This was a great and … [Read more]
Angelica and the Bear Prince by Trung Le Nguyen
Angelica is an overachiever. She can't help herself. She loves to be counted as someone people can rely on. But she's not relying on her body failing her, and after burnout leaves her too numb to do much else besides lie in bed, she gets into therapy and decides to choose one project to focus on … [Read more]
A Wilder Shore by Camille Peri
Robert Louis Stevenson, the author of Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde among many other works, was born in Scotland in 1850 and died in Samoa in 1894. In those forty-four years, he packed in a lot of travel alongside all that writing. Much of the travel was … [Read more]
All The Way To The River (2025) by Elizabeth Gilbert
Bingo square: RED (as in red flag as well as the cover). Content note: Cancer, death, drug addiction, abuse. I picked this book up because I read the excerpts elsewhere, and I was curious about the bigger picture--and also my thesis was on elegy, poems about dead people, and some of the questions … [Read more]
The Willful Princess and the Piebald Prince by Robin Hobb
The Kingdom of Copper by S. A. Chakraborty
cbr17bingo - Citizen (for The Kingdom of Copper, in which the shafit are second class citizens) The Willful Princess and the Piebald Prince How does Robin Hobb do it? This novella is told in a straightforward, fairy tale-type manner, with relatively little dialogue, and it was still so … [Read more]
