Thank you to everyone who has joined me on this bingo journey! I couldn’t do this without all of you, whether you wrote one review, or 25. None of this would happen without yesknopemaybe, who creates the best book bingo cards on the internet, and MsWas, who tells me every year that I can do this. On to the wrap-up. Initially, I wanted to make this year’s bingo categories easy, because I knew this would be a hard year for a lot of us. But then […]
A Very Satisfying Conclusion
The Crimson Crown by Cinda Williams Chima
Raisa takes the throne as Queen, but there is still much work to be done as well as the threat of invasion. Someone is murdering wizards, political machinations abound, and pressure for Raisa to marry. Raisa and Han are struggling both with the fact that almost everyone seems to be against Han in general and their relationship isn’t officially allowed. Plus between each of their duties, they don’t see each other much and are not sharing all of their plans with each other. As the […]
“I have just drawn my weapon and killed a Coke machine, sir.” CBRBINGO – Green (BINGO!)
The Tommyknockers by Stephen King
According to many Constant Readers, this is Uncle Stevie’s worst book, but I don’t agree! It is extremely flawed, but I also found it very readable (it probably helped that Edward Herrmann narrates the audiobook, and he is a wonderful audiobook narrator). This is sci-fi horror. A woman named Bobbie, a writer of western novels, finds a buried object in the ground and becomes obsessed with unearthing it. Doing so changes her and the town she lives in forever, and in really really creepy ways. […]
“He flopped sideways, mute testament to the greatest fighting technique of all: a friend behind your enemy.”
The Devils by Joe Abercrombie
The Devils is my first Abercrombie book. I’ve had Half a King on my TBR for over a decade, but it hadn’t made its way onto an annual list yet. But as is often the case over the past many years narfna reviewed something ecstatically which had me checking to see if it fit a reading challenge (I’m counting this as weird horror for Read Harder and Black for CBR Bingo) and then it made its way to this year’s list. My brain is tired having finished the nearly 550 pages of this book. But the good kind of tired. The “I just […]
I am the wrong audience for this book.
How to Begin: Start Doing Something That Matters by Michael Bungay Stanier
CBR17 Bingo: Using the Free block for the Red square In the next couple of months, I’m fortunate to have some downtime as my busiest season is over. During this time, I want to try to relax, catch up on stuff I shoved to the side, and enjoy the slower pace. I also want to work on some of my long term projects. However, as these projects are daunting, I’m deciding which approach is the best. I want to make meaningful strides without burning myself […]
A little faerie magic and a lot about real world sustainable gardening practices
Shroom for Improvement (Mythical Mishaps #1) by Jemma Croft
“So, you’ve seen me naked before?” I said. “Oh, yes, many times. You have a beautiful body, by the way.” My cheeks heated. Damn. It had been so long since anybody had complimented me, I was blushing at the disembodied words of a magical house. ― Jemma Croft, Shroom for Improvement CBR17 Bingo: School Sonny is a professor and his knowledge of mycology is a key part of the story. Sonny Daye has a problem. To complete his research on mushroom glamours, he must […]
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