Welcome to the Week 12 CBR 14 Bingo Check-in! You can see the card and the rules on the kick-off post. This week’s mood: We do bones, motherf*cker! I paused my listen of Harrow to go back to listen to Gideon again, and someday I’ll get myself to Nona. Meanwhile, if you want to talk about The Locked Tomb series, we have a discord now and I’ll send you an invite if you leave a comment. Please check your tags and make sure you are […]
“Your body was numb to grief; perhaps you had felt it once, but you did not feel it anymore.”
Harrow the Ninth: The Locked Tomb vol. 2 by Tamsyn Muir
CBR14: Bingo “Funky” – Much of Harrow the Ninth is written in second person perspective which is odd enough on its own but Muir also mixes in first and third perspective as well, making this a truly funky read. Spoilers: This is a review of a reread and will contain spoilers. Continue only if you’ve read Harrow the Ninth. Spoiler Free review here. Reading Harrow the Ninth the first time was challenging on a variety of levels. I was struggling processing my own grief while reading […]
Forevermore
The Pale Blue Eye by Louis Bayard
Read as part of cbr14bingo: gaslight. This book took place in gaslight era New York state. There’s even a gaslight on the book cover! Most of the time, I ditch the vaunted 5th star from an otherwise excellent book due to the ending. I’m usually disappointed by endings and even if I try to be graceful, I still can sometimes get disappointed by one. I can’t recall ever bumping a book from four stars to five due to the ending, yet here we are. I’m not […]
Choosing What We Care About
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life by Mark Manson
My sister is going through a difficult time, and because books always make me feel better, I went looking for a self-help book that I thought she would like. I stumbled across The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck, and mostly because of its catchy title, I decided to give it a whirl. I honestly didn’t think it would be as good as the ‘bestseller’ sticker purported, but I was pleasantly surprised. The Subtle Art feels like a giant demotivational poster for all the […]
Oh Look—It’s a Payoff!
Be the Serpent by Seanan McGuire
Same disclaimer as per usual; if you are reading a review of a long-running series—and Be the Serpent is entry number 16—you know what to expect spoiler-wise. I’ll try not to mention too much in this book, but the others are all fair game. Another thing with long running book series is that there is a lot of potential for very long plot arcs. While most books in the October Daye series have a little surprise or two, there was something set up in A […]
Blackout (of a character and on the bingo card)
The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West
Cbr14bingo Gaslight/Bingo Blackout Action takes place during and in decades prior to WWI. A couple of characters struggle to believe the truth and question each other’s reliability. The Return of the Soldier is a novella that exposes the iniquities of Britain’s class system against the backdrop of World War I. It is a heartbreaking love story that focuses on the women in one soldier’s life as he convalesces following an unusual injury in France. This story features four main characters. The injured soldier, Captain Chris […]
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