Welcome to the CBR16 Bingo week 12 check-in. Check your numbers, check your tags. Ask any questions. you might have. Hi!!!!! Sorry about a few weeks of no weekly check-ins. To misquote Dr. Ian Malcolm, “Life, uh, gets in the way.” This is the kick-off post with the card, description, and rules. The Players: BlackRaven – 25 reviews, Blackout Bibliophile – 2 reviews carmelpie – 13 reviews, 2 Bingos CoffeeShopReader – 17 reviews, 1 Bingo Debcapsfan – 2 reviews drmlz – 4 reviews ElCicco – 25 reviews, […]
From the Magical to the Personal: Two Reviews
Dreadful by Caitlin Rozakis
Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe
Dreadful by Caitlin Rozakis was such a blast. It features Dread Lord Gavrax, a dark wizard (and a mediocre one at that, we learn as the story progresses). Except that Gav has no memories of this. He wakes up with amnesia, freaks out when he realizes he appears to be in a dark lord’s lair, and quickly comes to realize that he is said dark lord. He then spends a good chunk of the book trying to hide this fact from potential enemies while also […]
A seasonal book that takes a season to read
Seasonal Fears by Seanan McGuire
Bingo 18: Earth Day Seanan McGuire knows her folklore, and it shows. In Seasonal Fears, there’s a ton of tropes, but mostly well handled. Basic plot involves the King of Winter and the Queen of Summer dying, and their crowns being up for grabs to those with affiliations for that season. The whole season emphasis thus qualifies for general environment theme, especially since the recently departed King of Winter was cheating the system where he was always in ascendance, which was probably causing climate […]
Moving Distractions. Or, When Ronnie got Salty
Fair Game: The Incredible Untold Story of Scientology in Australia by Steve Cannane
I’ve been moving around a lot in the last few years, and I’ve developed some little rituals over the process. My last move was only a month ago, and like so many of my moves, it involved extended amounts of time dicking around with Ikea furniture and getting rather frustrated. I have an audiobook especially for that task. It must have been eight or nine years ago now, but I had spend the best part of an afternoon trying to put a damned bed together […]
“It took a tremendous effort for me not to rip his arm off, and I’d like that noted for the record, please.”
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries #1) by Martha Wells
Back in November of 2018 I joined the cult of Murderbot. After I had read and loved The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers Emmalita and narfna had told me that Murderbot needed to be next up in my reading of contemplative, character driven space opera. I was immediately in love. I’ve kept up with the furthering adventures of Murderbot in the intervening years and had decided earlier this year that I wanted to do a full series re-read before I […]
Some really beautiful moments don’t necessarily add up to a masterpiece of a novel
The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
CBR16 BINGO: Détente, because Billy is always trying to keep the peace Amor Towles is an undeniably talented writer. Having fallen in love with A Gentleman in Moscow and being charmed by Table for Two, I came to expect that I would adore just about anything he wrote. And certainly, there is a lot to like in The Lincoln Highway. At times I would be cruising along like the old Studebaker in the story when a particular turn of phrase or small vignette would stop me […]
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