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Stay With Me by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀

June 29, 2023 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

Cannonball Passport: Hello from Nigeria~ An aside that I am on the lookout for novels written by writers from the African diaspora who are not Nigerian, as I think almost 100% of my novels have been by Nigerian authors (writing in English). It’s perhaps that last point which informs why… In any case! I grabbed this book while I was waiting for the next novel, A Spell of Good Things, to be available. My main takeaway, especially after also reading Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright […]

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wicherwill's CBR15 Review No:15 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #CBR15 passport, ayobami adebayo ·

Ceux qui s’aiment fissisent tourjour par se retrouver by Sonia Dagotor

June 29, 2023 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

Cannonball Passport: Book from France! This was a very quirky book, which I started in advance of a trip to France that was making me (as always) be rather self-flagellating for not being more diligent about building on the hard won fluency that I’d gained in school and then maintaining it (through more than haphazard one offs on vacation twice a decade, e.g. filing police reports in Marrakesh or asking if something had peanuts in Paris). It was, admittedly, picked off of a list of […]

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wicherwill's CBR15 Review No:14 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #CBR15 passport, French, Sonia Dagotor ·

Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo

June 29, 2023 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

Cannon Ball Passport: Friend recommended! Tl;dr I think I’ll read the next in this series but I wasn’t as keen on this outing as I was with the first book, Ninth House. I’m glad that when I originally tried reading this, and lost the loan before starting through a mistake of airplane mode, that I didn’t go out and spend money buying a copy–although Bardugo’s defense of the genre does make me want to capitalism in her direction. We pick up with Galaxy “Alex” Stern, now […]

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wicherwill's CBR15 Review No:13 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: #CBR15 passport, alex stern, Leigh Bardugo ·

She’s Only a Bird in a Gilded Cage

Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter

June 29, 2023 by elderberrywine Leave a Comment

CBR15 Passport Siberia Now mystical and/or spooky circus is one of my favorite vibes, but it is the language of this book that sets it apart for me, ranging from an East End London lilt to wonderfully baroque proclamations a la P. T. Barnum at his most fulsome. The plot is based on a feminist twist of the Leda and the swan myth. Fevvers, renowned aerialiste, is recounting her origin story in turn of the century London to a young American journalist. At six two […]

I don’t want power. I just object to idiots having power over me.

Shards of Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold

Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold

The Warrior's Apprentice by Lois McMaster Bujold

June 27, 2023 by carmelpie 4 Comments

I was so afraid for you, I forgot to be afraid for your enemies. ― Lois McMaster Bujold, Barrayar These three novels were my entry into the Vorkosigan books by Lois McMaster Bujold. There are a few different entry points, but these three provided the right amount of backstory at the right time. I’ve read that you can begin with The Warrior’s Apprentice, however you would miss out on some wonderful characters that are only referenced within the two earlier books. Shards of Honor is […]

“When did we become such terrible people?””Maybe we’ve always been terrible.”

If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio

June 25, 2023 by carmelpie Leave a Comment

Other nights, when he thought I was already dreaming, he slid out of bed, took his coat and shoes, and disappeared into the dark outside. I never asked where he went, worried he wouldn’t ask me to follow. ― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains “Do you blame Shakespeare for any of it?” The question is so unlikely, so nonsensical coming from such a sensible man, that I can’t suppress a smile. “I blame him for all of it.”― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains […]

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