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Space Road Trip!

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

July 27, 2019 by Jen K Leave a Comment

Bingo Square: Travel It took me forever and more positive reviews than I can cite but I finally read The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet. I generally read more fantasy than sci-fi but I’ve been overdoing the fantasy lately, and needed to switch things up. And what better than CBR11 Book Bingo to inspire actual reviewing! I know as long as the review is written between 1 July and 31 October, it counts, but considering that I’ve only reviewed one whole book this […]

A Snarky but Serious Look at Pop Culture

Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay

July 27, 2019 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

Bingo 7 (The Collection) for the diagonal L to R, top to bottom BINGO! I have had Bad Feminist on my physical TBR shelf for some time. I was motivated to read it for the Bingo square, but also because I’m writing a course syllabus for this fall in which I am considering including a section from Bad Feminist. I figure, if I’m going to teach it, I should know the whole thing for context. I have heard a lot about Roxane Gay as a […]

Silver in more ways than one

Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

July 27, 2019 by CoffeeShopReader 1 Comment

Bingo Review 6 (Remix) I am loving this Bingo thing; it’s forcing me to pick up things I’ve been wanting to read but have hesitated to start for various reasons. Spinning Silver is one of these books. I really loved Naomi Novik’s Uprooted fairy tale retelling, and Spinning Silver does a lot of the same things. The biggest change though is also my biggest complaint. Verdict: Spinning Silver is a distant silver to Uprooted‘s gold. Spinning Silver is a mix between a retelling of Rumpelstiltskin […]

A Man of Hubris

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

July 26, 2019 by blauracke Leave a Comment

I have seen a few of the movie adaptations of Frankenstein but somehow I never got around to reading the book. I knew that it was supposed to be rather different and much more sophisticated than a simple horror story, and I was really excited to finally read it, but I have to admit I’m sorely disappointed after finishing it, and a big part of this is the main protagonist. Victor Frankenstein has to be one of the most pathetic and self-obsessed idiots ever created […]

A single story told as though it’s the only one

Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls WIlder

July 26, 2019 by Wanderlustful Leave a Comment

For those of you who missed reading this American children’s classic in your own youth, as I did, Little House on the Prairie is the second (or third, depending on whether you count Farmer Boy, apparently) in Ingalls’ multi-volume Little House set, after Little House in the Big Woods. It was my first foray in Ingalls’ works, and I don’t think I missed anything by starting out of order. The book kicks off with Pa Ingalls yearning for a place with less people (the Big […]

Salt the earth outside the wheelhouse

she just wants to forget by r. h. sin

July 26, 2019 by octothorp Leave a Comment

I don’t read much poetry, and I read even less inspirational literature, so this is a twofer for my Not My Wheelhouse square. I feel like I’ve been asked to review The Room. As a comedy, this book gets 1000/5 stars (skip to the end for some schadenfreude). As a deep work of inspirational poetry, zero stars and I want the half hour this took me to read back. There is a reason poetry is out of my wheelhouse, it can be amazing or a […]

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