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“I’m not sure what the difference is between sleeping and time travel”

Broken (in the best possible way) by Jenny Lawson

July 27, 2021 by Malin 3 Comments

4.5 stars CBR13 Bingo: Rep (features honest and sometimes graphic descriptions of life with a variety of mental and chronic illnesses) It’s no secret that Jenny Lawson, known online and to her followers as The Bloggess, suffers from a large number of ailments, both physical and mental. She has dealt with various kinds of chronic illness throughout her life and manages to be mostly very light-hearted and humourous about it. I chose to get this book in audio, because Jenny Lawson narrates her own books, […]

Dancing the Entropic Two-Step

Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe by Brian Greene

July 27, 2021 by blauracke 1 Comment

Although my main interests have always been history, languages, and cultural studies, I somehow also developed a love of astronomy early on. Due to my lack of interest in maths, chemistry, and physics in every other aspect than cosmology, I was however satisfied with reading popular science books about the universe and following the scientific progress in a very casual way. About 15 years ago, I read The Elegant Universe, in which the physicist and string theorist Brian Greene explains string theory in as accessible […]

Heist Romances

It Takes a Thief by Sloane Steele

Between Two Thieves by Sloane Steele

July 26, 2021 by faintingviolet 1 Comment

In the Counterfeit Capers Series Sloane Steele is going for a feeling like the television show Leverage and as I had just finished binging through the original, I was in just the right mood for what Steele was after. Unfortunately for me these books didn’t quite hit the mark. The basic set-up is Jared and Mia, the children of two notorious conmen and thieves who got away with a Ponzi type scheme decide to use their abilities and access to make as right as they […]

“There is nothing nice about Southern ladies!”

The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix

July 26, 2021 by Mobius_Walker Leave a Comment

BINGO – LIBATIONS [TW: sexual assault/rape] It’s the early 1990s, and Patricia Campbell lives in a suburb of Charleston, South Carolina with her husband, two kids, and mother-in-law. She does what she can to be a picturesque Southern lady: exceptional manners and hospitality, exquisite outfits, pristine home, and exemplary family. She is a perfect Southern peach, and she’s bored. The only outlet she has that is solely for herself is her book club filled with other women just like her. To escape their lives, they […]

I know I always complain about book series that don’t have an end BUT I WANT MORE

Shadow Scale by Rachel Hartman

July 26, 2021 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

Travel: because I actually really liked the majority of this book where Seraphina is just traveling from one city to another, trying to do her thing Wow, people really don’t like this book. I, on the other hand, squandered a perfectly good sleep head start to the week to stay up and finish this book and was nigh inconsolable afterwards because [WHAT IS ORMA’S MIND PEARL TRIGGER???? IS IT IN THE NEXT BOOK (Tess of the Road??? I NEED TO KNOW]. So if I address the […]

Definitely an old series–that holds up really well

Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar

Wayside School is Falling Down by Louis Sachar

Wayside School Gets A Little Stranger by Louis Sachar

Wayside School Beneath the Cloud of Doom by Louis Sachar

July 26, 2021 by wicherwill 3 Comments

Old Series: the newest installment in this series comes 25 years(!) after the last, and 44(!!!) years since the first A mild content warning for some old school “humor” around kids being fat which didn’t age the best but is also not used in a bullying way Sideways Stories from Wayside School In advance of reading the new(!) fourth installment in this delightful series, I thought I’d re-read the original three in rapid succession. I have fond memories of these books and their particular brand […]

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