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Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller

May 24, 2021 by andtheIToldYouSos 2 Comments

Jeanie and Julius have spent their entire lives together. Over half a century of life together has passed, and they have never spent an entire night separate from each other. Jeanie tends the garden with their mother, Dot, and Julius works odd jobs in the village. Jeanie, Julius, and Dot depend fiercely on one another. They accept nothing from the outside world- at least, Jeanie and Julius spent the last 51 years believing that they were accepting nothing and indebted to no one but each […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: ARC, Britain, claire fuller, family, family secrets, farm life, galley club, poverty, rural life, secrets, survival, tin house, tin house galley club, tragedy

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR13 Review No:45 · Genres: Fiction, Suspense · Tags: ARC, Britain, claire fuller, family, family secrets, farm life, galley club, poverty, rural life, secrets, survival, tin house, tin house galley club, tragedy ·
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True crime and queer history.

Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York by Elon Green

April 3, 2021 by narfna Leave a Comment

Thanks to Celadon Books for the ARC! It has not affected the content of my review. I wish I had gotten to this book before publication, but better late than never. I was offered an ARC and accepted gladly, as I’d wanted to read the book anyway. It then arrived weeks late, presumably because the USPS is having some capital ‘I’ Issues right now. The book was worth the wait, though, even if I was sort of unsettled and left a bit unsatisfied at the […]

Filed Under: History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #history, ARC, Elon Green, Last Call, LGBTQIA, murder, narfna, non fiction, queer history, true crime

narfna's CBR13 Review No:27 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: #history, ARC, Elon Green, Last Call, LGBTQIA, murder, narfna, non fiction, queer history, true crime ·
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if it feels too good to be true…

The Whispering House by Elizabeth Brooks

March 29, 2021 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

THEN IT IS! RUN! Freya, our protagonist, is a willfully clueless horror heroine. Were The Whispering House a movie, we would all be shouting at her every time she was on screen. Don’t open that door! Don’t drink that tea! Don’t go up those stairs! Don’t look behind you! Don’t move in to the crumbling manor house that is somehow connected to your sister’s suicide days after meeting the charming yet off-putting man of the house! Just…DON’T! A blurb on the cover of my ARC states […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: ARC, art, British Lit, class warfare, coastal England, Elizabeth Brooks, Gothic Horror, Haunted House, tin house, tin house galley club

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR13 Review No:35 · Genres: Fiction, Suspense · Tags: ARC, art, British Lit, class warfare, coastal England, Elizabeth Brooks, Gothic Horror, Haunted House, tin house, tin house galley club ·
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“Everything that happened next was only possible because my mother was absent. It wasn’t that she left the house much, it was that a part of her had abandoned her body and now resisted coming back.”

How to Order the Universe by María José Ferrada

March 2, 2021 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

A precocious child, a beat-up Renault, traveling salesmen and the uneasy promise of ghosts populate this tiny but mighty book. M, our narrator, has struck a deal with her father. They haunt the dusty roads of Pinochet’s Chile as a sales-duo, using M’s charms to sway shop owners towards buy more nails, hammers, and other hardware than her father could sell on his own. If the person in charge focused on my pupils, instead of encountering me, he or she encountered every possible form of […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History Tagged With: ARC, Chile, coming-of-age, elizabeth dryer, historical fiction, María José Ferrada, melancholy, pinochet, precocious child, spanish language, tin house, tin house galley club, translation, trauma, traveling salesman

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR13 Review No:30 · Genres: Fiction, History · Tags: ARC, Chile, coming-of-age, elizabeth dryer, historical fiction, María José Ferrada, melancholy, pinochet, precocious child, spanish language, tin house, tin house galley club, translation, trauma, traveling salesman ·
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“She was probably wearing real Chanel Vamp nail polish, not knockoff Revlon Vixen”

Justine by Forsyth Harmon

February 3, 2021 by andtheIToldYouSos 3 Comments

Ali is bored, lonely, and smitten. Justine is bold, aloof, and irresistible. The girls meet in a Long Island Stop & Shop in the summer of 1999. I’ve been quoting from this song a lot lately, but as John Darnielle said so perfectly in “Old College Try”: Things will shortly get completely out of hand There is something visceral about peeking back into the mind of a suburban tri-state-area teen. This book stuck with me like the frequently mentioned feeling of bare thighs sticking to […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: adulthood, ARC, bad decisions, Forsyth Harmon, illustrated, summer vacation, tin house, tin house galley club

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR13 Review No:19 · Genres: Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: adulthood, ARC, bad decisions, Forsyth Harmon, illustrated, summer vacation, tin house, tin house galley club ·
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One Woman Holds a Torch for the Three Women Who Kicked Down the Door to War

You Don't Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War by Elizabeth Becker

January 31, 2021 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

My master’s adviser at the University of Washington had rejected my thesis on the Bangladesh War of Independence after I refused to sleep with him. He said the one was not related to the other but would welcome having an affair if I changed my mind. That infuriating fact  introduces us to Elizabeth Becker. Becker is no stranger to reporting; she has covered revolution, war, and genocide all over the world. She has won many prizes for her work, including (but not limited to the) […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: ARC, camodia, Catherine Leroy, Elizabeth Becker, Fire in the Lake, Frances FitzGerald, Kate Webb, khmer rouge, Laos, military history, NetGalley, On the Other Side: 23 Days with the Viet Cong, photography, Photojournalism, ptsd, PublicAffairs Publishing, sexism, trauma, Under Fire: Great Photographers and Writers in Vietnam, Vietnam, Vietnam war, war, war reporting, Women in war

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR13 Review No:18 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: ARC, camodia, Catherine Leroy, Elizabeth Becker, Fire in the Lake, Frances FitzGerald, Kate Webb, khmer rouge, Laos, military history, NetGalley, On the Other Side: 23 Days with the Viet Cong, photography, Photojournalism, ptsd, PublicAffairs Publishing, sexism, trauma, Under Fire: Great Photographers and Writers in Vietnam, Vietnam, Vietnam war, war, war reporting, Women in war ·
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