Welcome to the CBR16 Bingo week 3 check-in. Check your numbers, check your tags. Ask any questions. you might have. Congratulations to BlackRaven! She completed her bingo card on Friday, July 26. You can find the kick-off post with the card, description, and rules here. The Players: BlackRaven – 25 reviews, Blackout carmelpie – 4 reviews CoffeeShopReader – 5 reviews ElCicco – 8 reviews, 1 Bingo esme – 1 review faintingviolet – 4 reviews Jake – 13* reviews KimMiE” – 5 reviews Malin – 6 reviews narfna […]
Seeking revenge, making friends
Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells
CBR16 BINGO: Scandal, because Murderbot is seeking to uncover all sorts of illegal activities by the GrayCris Corporation Having recently joined the ranks of the Murderbot fandom, I’m eagerly frolicking my way through the series. While the third installment, Rogue Protocol, struck my fancy less than the first two installments, it’s still a good time and I’m itching for more. In Rogue Protocol, the construct known fondly by us readers as Murderbot and by others as SecUnit is still gathering evidence that the GrayCris Corporation […]
Let’s see how many bingo squares I can find cookbooks for
Girls Gone Veg by Toni Pressley, Ali Riley
Bingo 5: Games The title girls of Girls Gone Veg: Plant-Based Recipes by Athletes for Everyone are Toni Presley and Ali Riley, both professional soccer players. I don’t really follow the sports ball, but at least at some point these two played for the Orlando Pride within the NWSL. Thus, while this is a cookbook, it’s also a book written by athletes with the physical demands of their game in mind. It shows up in the photos and occasionally in the headers. So it counts. […]
Pretentious Platters and Elitist Elements Served with a Certain Tone (but it really does look good)
Mostly Plant-Based Platters & Boards by Lea Dixon
Bingo 4: Golden Since this square is about perception, appearance, status, and maybe also the question of gilding vs purity vs who cares, I’m going to use Mostly Plant-Based Platters & Boards. The foodie board trend is almost always about appearance and about interesting frequently high end ingredients that must go together. The pictures in these kinds of cookbooks are almost always really pretty, but how reproduceable are they really? And then there’s the question of who really has access to locally, and has the […]
Mission Be Funny While Stopping Duncan’s Murder
Miss Blaine's Prefect and the Weird Sisters by Olga Wojtas
Bingo 3: Fanfic Miss Blaine’s Prefect and the Weird Sisters is a re-imagining of Shakespeare’s Macbeth; it’s definitely fanfic, both in that it’s a self-insertion into an established world/story and that it’s loaded with basically Easter Eggs that only a fan of the original would appreciate. The premise is that Shona McMonagle is a middle-aged librarian who is somehow capable of time-travel. The time travel thing is not really explained, and it doesn’t really matter as that’s not the point. When Shona was younger, she […]
Ok I Will
Tell Me Who You Are by Louisa Luna
Read as part of CBR16 Bingo: free space. Ok I will get to my thoughts about this book in a second. But… It’s probably been talked about before by folks in other spaces but I find it notable that so many female-written thrillers are based around a woman running away from her past. Could be because of an abusive ex or parents but it is often — as it is here — about a traumatic event that occurred when they were younger. I’m not trying […]
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