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‘There’s weird shit,’ I said. ‘And we deal with the weird shit, but normally it turns out that there’s a perfectly rational explanation.’ Which is often that a wizard did it.

Broken Homes by Ben Aaronovitch

Foxglove Summer by Ben Aaronovitch

The Hanging Tree by Ben Aaronovitch

September 26, 2020 by LittlePlat 2 Comments

In all the hype for the Dresden Filer two-fer, I haven’t forgotten my new other favourite urban fantasy series! Since writing up my thoughts on the first three books in the Peter Grant series, I’ve positivly raced through the next three. I think Ben Aaronovitch really struck gold when he decided to blend a British police procedural with magical shenanigans; I’m racing through the series like a hot knife through butter. While all the books so far have had self-contained stories, there have been threads […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: Ben Aaronovitch, Broken Homes, cbr12bingo, Foxglove Summer, Green, Peter Grant, police procedural, the hanging tree

LittlePlat's CBR12 Review No:21 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: Ben Aaronovitch, Broken Homes, cbr12bingo, Foxglove Summer, Green, Peter Grant, police procedural, the hanging tree ·
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“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.”

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

September 26, 2020 by Leedock 1 Comment

CBR12 BINGO: Violet Square So very late to this party and I’m more than a little disappointed in myself that it took a CBR Bingo Square to get me to read it. It was not at all what I expected. Told through a series of letters written between sisters and from one sister to God, The Color Purple is about a lot of things: racism, classism, abuse, love, family. At it’s heart though, is a beautiful story about a woman, who against all odds and […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Alice Walker, black fiction, cbr12, cbr12bingo, Fiction

Leedock's CBR12 Review No:13 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Alice Walker, black fiction, cbr12, cbr12bingo, Fiction ·
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“John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in a marriage.”

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

September 26, 2020 by Leedock 1 Comment

CBR12 BINGO: Yellow Square I’m finding the random color square bingo row pretty delightful. Since I don’t have many titles on my TBR pile that fit the bill, I started Googling around to find titles that fit the colors. The yellow search yielded an interesting little bit of feminist short fiction published in 1891. Perkins Gilman puts a fictional spin on her experiences with the “bed rest cure” that doctors of the time prescribed for women suffering from “nervous” conditions. In her introduction, she notes […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbr12, cbr12bingo, charlotte perkins gilman, Fiction

Leedock's CBR12 Review No:12 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr12, cbr12bingo, charlotte perkins gilman, Fiction ·
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Old stories told today, sort of.

Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman

September 26, 2020 by Mobius_Walker Leave a Comment

Neil Gaiman gathers together tales from Norse mythology and tells them in a way that makes sense to him. He attempts to pull together a cohesive narrative from what few myths have survived which is not many. All of the standards are here: the creation of the nine realms and the World Tree, Loki’s children, Thor’s visit with Hymir, Balder’s death, and Ragnarok. There are a few myths included that I had not read before such as The Mead of the Poets and Freya’s Unusual […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: cbr12bingo, mythology, myths, Neil Gaiman, norse, norse mythology

Mobius_Walker's CBR12 Review No:31 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: cbr12bingo, mythology, myths, Neil Gaiman, norse, norse mythology ·
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A delightful British rom-com (Bingo #6)

Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall

September 26, 2020 by Malin 5 Comments

4.5 stars #CBR12 Bingo: Reader’s Choice (replaces How-To) Official book description: Wanted: One (fake) boyfriend Practically perfect in every way Luc O’Donnell is tangentially–and reluctantly–famous. His rock star parents split when he was young, and the father he’s never met spent the next twenty years cruising in and out of rehab. Now that his dad’s making a comeback, Luc’s back in the public eye, and one compromising photo is enough to ruin everything. To clean up his image, Luc has to find a nice, normal relationship…and […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: Alexis Hall, Boyfriend Material, cbr12, cbr12bingo, Contemporary Romance, funny, LGBTQIA, London, Malin, reader's choice

Malin's CBR12 Review No:63 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: Alexis Hall, Boyfriend Material, cbr12, cbr12bingo, Contemporary Romance, funny, LGBTQIA, London, Malin, reader's choice ·
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I am a rule breaker….And can be unlike Kiku and her family in this graphic novel

Displacement by Kiku Hughes

September 25, 2020 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

#cbr12bingo Book Club I am 100% cheating on this Bingo Block as I can’t find a Book Club book that I really want to read right now. However, this book should be 1000% in a book club.  We need to remember a piece of our own history and how history is currently repeating itself. Displacement by Kiku Hughes was not a perfect read for me. As much as I loved this book, I needed a bit more. It is a beautiful story about family, history, […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, History, Young Adult Tagged With: 1942-1945, 20th Century, cbr12bingo, History & Current Events tie-in, Japanese Americans, Kiku Hughes, Multigenerational, Social issue comics, time travel

BlackRaven's CBR12 Review No:292 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, History, Young Adult · Tags: 1942-1945, 20th Century, cbr12bingo, History & Current Events tie-in, Japanese Americans, Kiku Hughes, Multigenerational, Social issue comics, time travel ·
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