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Walking or Rolling As Praxis, Moving Slow for Liberation

Walk: Slow Down, Wake Up, and Connect at 1-3 Miles Per Hour by Jonathon Stalls

June 27, 2023 by Flimflamingo 2 Comments

Walk is a book I picked up for work as in it was self-assigned professional development reading. Unlike the vast vast majority of the books I read for work this one wasn’t about my work. It wasn’t ” The Literature” (i.e., scholarship, reference texts, manuals/ guides) or professional learning text. It’s a general reader book. A popular title. That’s the way the royal “we” would refer to it. It’s a book I read for work because it’s a book other people read and talk about. It’s […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: inclusive, intrinsic paths, jonathon stalls, LGBTQ, LGBTQIA, lgbtqia2s+, moving slow, pedestrian dignity, roll, walk, walk2connect

Flimflamingo's CBR15 Review No:17 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: inclusive, intrinsic paths, jonathon stalls, LGBTQ, LGBTQIA, lgbtqia2s+, moving slow, pedestrian dignity, roll, walk, walk2connect ·
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Not for me, alas.

The Red Scholar's Wake by Aliette de Bodard

June 22, 2023 by narfna Leave a Comment

This wasn’t bad, but it could have been so much better. I think I just really don’t gel with this author. I read a short story from her that one year I voted for the Hugos and it turned me off so hard from her stuff. She seemed like the kind of author who was more interested in being artsy and impressive than in telling a good story. Those kinds of authors and I usually butt heads. So when this book was chosen for December’s […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: #Science Fiction, aliette de bodard, f/f, LGBTQIA, narfna, queer sci-fi, speculative, The Red Scholar's Wake

narfna's CBR15 Review No:66 · Genres: Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: #Science Fiction, aliette de bodard, f/f, LGBTQIA, narfna, queer sci-fi, speculative, The Red Scholar's Wake ·
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Sharp-Dressed Cats, Angels, Murder, Noir that Stands Apart

Even Though I Knew the End by CL Polk

June 17, 2023 by Flimflamingo 2 Comments

I feel like I came to Even Though I Knew the End by CL Polk late even though it’s still a relatively new release. I also started it, had to pause because I had to read for work on deadline, and then picked up where I left off… but only after my required reading made it abundantly clear that, by comparison, this book is amazing. That said, it moved slower for me than others and perhaps that affected my overall rating for it. This is a novella that […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Mystery Tagged With: angel, angels, cl polk, demon, demons, Even Though I Knew the End, lesbian, LGBTQ, LGBTQIA, murder, queer, sapphic, serial murder

Flimflamingo's CBR15 Review No:13 · Genres: Fantasy, Mystery · Tags: angel, angels, cl polk, demon, demons, Even Though I Knew the End, lesbian, LGBTQ, LGBTQIA, murder, queer, sapphic, serial murder ·
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A Woman is a Mule, or “What’s in that trunk, Adelaide?”, or a Novel of Second Chances

Lone Women by Victor LaValle

June 15, 2023 by Flimflamingo 2 Comments

I met Victor LaValle at a literary fest a few years ago. While handing him a copy of The Changeling, which was his latest novel at the time and the book I had just finished reading, I said to him, “I feel like I’m the person you’re writing these books for. You’re writing these books for me.” And I meant it then and I mean it now. There’s a point at which LaValle started writing the books he knew he was meant to write (he has […]

Filed Under: Featured, Horror, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: Asian-American, BIPOC, Black women, Chinese, horror, lgbt, LGBTQ, LGBTQIA, Lone Women, queer women, Speculative Fiction, Victor LaValle, western

Flimflamingo's CBR15 Review No:11 · Genres: Featured, Horror, Speculative Fiction · Tags: Asian-American, BIPOC, Black women, Chinese, horror, lgbt, LGBTQ, LGBTQIA, Lone Women, queer women, Speculative Fiction, Victor LaValle, western ·
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“The Chicken Basket,” Peter announced. “The sheep bucket,” Caleb declared promptly. “What game is this?”

Peter Cabot Gets Lost (The Cabots, #2) by Cat Sebastian

June 2, 2023 by narfna Leave a Comment

Whoops, just realized I never wrote a review of this and I’m starting book three today, so I need to get this done before my brain starts mixing things up. I don’t have much to say about this even though I gave it five stars. I basically just want to say “This was a perfect romance novella” and call it a day. But I have to reach 250 words to count on this here Cannonball Read so I will keep going. This is historical fiction novella set […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: Cat Sebastian, historical romance, LGBTQIA, m-m, narfna, novellas, Peter Cabot Gets Lost, Romance

narfna's CBR15 Review No:59 · Genres: Romance · Tags: Cat Sebastian, historical romance, LGBTQIA, m-m, narfna, novellas, Peter Cabot Gets Lost, Romance ·
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A major bummer.

Sizzle Reel by Carlyn Greenwald

June 1, 2023 by narfna Leave a Comment

Thanks to NetGalley and Knopf, Pantheon, Vintage, and Anchor for the ARC. It hasn’t affected the contents of my review. Bullet pointing this “review” because I have emotionally abandoned this book and just cannot be bothered. *I was into this for first 10%, despite the terrible choice to write in first person present tense. *The blurb is extremely misleading. This is a friends to lovers romance. By the time I realized this was what was happening, it was too late for me to enjoy it, […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: ARCs, bisexual mc, Carlyn Greenwald, Contemporary Romance, f/f, LGBTQIA, queer romance, Romance, Sizzle Reel

narfna's CBR15 Review No:55 · Genres: Romance · Tags: ARCs, bisexual mc, Carlyn Greenwald, Contemporary Romance, f/f, LGBTQIA, queer romance, Romance, Sizzle Reel ·
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