The four horsemen of the Apocalypse came to Earth and in their wake, there was destruction. Engines stopped working, planes fell from the sky, technology sputtered and the internet failed. There was chaos, and then people learned to adapt. Five years later, only one horseman is active – Pestilence the Conqueror, who rides the length and breadth of the American continent, with whole cities dying where he’s appeared. In a small settlement in Canada, Sara Burns is a volunteer firefighter who literally drew the short […]
A hilarious and heartwarming book. J/k, it’s Margaret Atwood.
This is the May book club pick of my local library, and I was a little disappointed only because I wasn’t looking forward to rereading it. I am a huuuuuge Atwood fan and was hoping to dig into something new. Well, the joke is on me because I realized that I had somehow conflated this book with Anita Diamant’s “The Red Tent” and I had somehow never read it. For shame. And how appropriate to kick off a review of “The Handmaid’s Tale” with a […]
Well now that is some fucked up shit
Massive trigger warnings for: child abuse, pedophilia, sexual abuse, assault, animal abuse. This book was real fucked up. Maybe the most fucked up. I have mixed feelings. Surprisingly mostly not because this book is so fucked up, but rather because I feel like it didn’t follow through and stick the landing. I feel a bit cheated by the ending, like it was an easy out. Not quite “it was all a dream” but close. If you’re going to start out with such a powerfully fucked […]
Moving cities that eat each other? Yep, I’m in.
I write haiku reviews for all the movies I see, so I’m going to continue that tradition for CBR10…
Comfort re-read #1.
Comfort re-read this over the weekend when The Dark Tower was kicking my ass. It did its job admirably. Well, actually, I will confess that the bleak atmosphere of Cline’s 2045 wasn’t as comforting as it usually is because all the bleakness and decay felt a lot less imaginary and removed than it has in the past. But the gamified storyline and the sheer pleasure of solving puzzles and having adventures and beating the corrupt bad guy in order to win the day was still really fucking […]
The Knife of Not Really Getting Into It
I’m at a bit of a loss as to what sort of rating to give The Knife Of Never Letting Go. On the one hand I struggled at times to get into it, found the villain rather cartoonish, and the narration style (and phonetic spelling) of our protagonist, Todd, soon became something of an irritayshun. But on the other hand, I did feel really quite sad and angry more than a few times, so it obviously got to me while my back was turned. Todd […]
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