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Creep by Emma van Straaten

August 7, 2025 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

BINGO: Purple cw: self-harm, internalized fatphobia hot take immediately reminded of the french film À la folie… pas du tout which is also about erotomania, then went to watch the trailer, found everyone’s comments underneath being about having watched this in french class as well, which I find to be quite amusing (Audrey Tautou is probably just a prime French Class actress because she enunciates very precisely) A bit of an exciting read–the author is a friend of a friend from Book Group, and she’ll be attending […]

reworked fanfiction strikes again, with middling results

The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy by Brigitte Knightley

August 7, 2025 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

BINGO: the letter “I”! hot take if your book needs a glossary at the front and a pronunciation guide in the back you’re doing world building wrong–it’s not a slow build, it’s a slog. That does feel a bit mean to say, but honestly it feels like Knightley had a certain view (or, a certain work) that was going to be fit into the confines of new IP. But that means we’ve got a lot of wood to chop to learn about seith, the order […]

None of the senior leaders…thought about this enough to put in place the kinds of systems we’d need, in Myanmar or other countries. They apparently didn’t care. These were sins of omission. It wasn’t the things they did; it was the things they didn’t do.”

Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams

August 4, 2025 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

BINGO: white hot take what an infuriating book–a real choice for the main read of my peaceful cabin-and-lake-and-forest vacation–and just a solid entry in “tech people are the worst sort of rich/powerful people” genre Sarah Wynn-Williams joined Facebook in 2011, after working for the New Zealand embassy in DC for a number of years. She’s painfully, painfully earnest about her motivations–the zealot convert’s belief that Facebook would completely change the paradigm of the global geopolitical landscape–so much so that she basically whinges her way into […]

For every sentimental my teacher changed my life story you heard, there were dozens of my teacher made me moderately bored a few times a week and then I got through the year and moved on with my life and never thought about them again

The Incandescent by Emily Tesh

August 4, 2025 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

BINGO: school, obviously hot take I think magic system was a bit waffle-y and the overall tone perhaps a shade too imitative of the books referenced in the blurb, but I loved the last part and give me more stories with middle-aged protagonists–they can make ill-advised decisions too! h/t to Britt for the rec! So I mean: Naomi Novik’s Scholomance series meets Plain Bad Heroines in this sapphic dark academia fantasy. I’ll admit I don’t know the second series, but sapphic (!) dark academia (!!) fantasy (!!!) and like, […]

Smooth Like Buttah

The Chicago Way by Michael Harvey

July 25, 2025 by elderberrywine Leave a Comment

cbrgingo17 Borrow The jacket blurb informed me that Michael Harvey was to Chicago as Raymond Chandler was to Los Angeles. Cannot personally verify, at least for the Chicago part, but sure seems to be true. It definitely applies to Chander’s Los Angeles. Michael Kelly, private investigator/ex-cop, gets a case from his former partner on the force. It’s an eight-year old cold rape and battery case, but it turns out that his old partner was told to forget it ever happened. And now when that partner […]

hot take this utterly infuriating book that almost makes me want to join Phyllis Schlafly

Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab

July 25, 2025 by wicherwill 1 Comment

BINGO: Borrow, I got this from my library as I do most all of my books! hot take I’ll round up to three stars for this utterly infuriating book that almost makes me want to don a dress and join Phyllis Schlafly in protesting that women (vampires) they doth take too much I feel like one of the few people who were not enamored of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, probably because I didn’t get or see the love/hate relationship between Addie and Luc (the […]

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