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“If a book is well-written, I always find it too short”

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

November 7, 2025 by Malin Leave a Comment

4.5 stars CBR17 Bingo: Black (a book with a black cover) I had completely forgotten that I read and reviewed this book back in 2016. My original review can be found here. My plot summary of the more than 200-year-old novel can be found in my previous review. Nevertheless, my reading experience this time around was different enough from earlier times that I wanted to write about some of my thoughts and observations, not to mention some of the points of discussion that came up during my […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fiction, History Tagged With: adapted into TV and film, audiobook, cbr17, cbr17bingo, coming-of-age, family drama, historical fiction, Jane Austen, literary classic, Malin, re-read, Regency, romantic, Rosamund Pike, sense and sensibility, Sisters, social satire, the Dark Corner

Malin's CBR17 Review No:66 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction, History · Tags: adapted into TV and film, audiobook, cbr17, cbr17bingo, coming-of-age, family drama, historical fiction, Jane Austen, literary classic, Malin, re-read, Regency, romantic, Rosamund Pike, sense and sensibility, Sisters, social satire, the Dark Corner ·
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“Four legs good, two legs bad”

Animal Farm by George Orwell

March 2, 2025 by Malin 1 Comment

Nowhere Books Bingo 25: Banned Book Buzzword Cover Challenge 25: Cover featuring an animal On Manor Farm, somewhere in England, an old boar gathers all the animals in the barn and makes a powerful speech about how animals suffer at the hands of humans and should rise up and take power for themselves. Shortly after his death, the animals of Manor Farm do just that – they violently fight back when Farmer Jones and his farmhands try to control them and chase the farmer, his […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fantasy, Fiction, History, Suspense Tagged With: #fantasy, 20th Century, allegory, animals, buzzwords cover, cbr17, Communism, dystopia, fable, George Orwell, historical fiction, literary classic, Malin, novella, Nowhere Book Bingo, political satire, Soviet history

Malin's CBR17 Review No:13 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fantasy, Fiction, History, Suspense · Tags: #fantasy, 20th Century, allegory, animals, buzzwords cover, cbr17, Communism, dystopia, fable, George Orwell, historical fiction, literary classic, Malin, novella, Nowhere Book Bingo, political satire, Soviet history ·
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“I must make up my mind which is right – society or I”

Et dukkehjem (A Doll's House) by Henrik Ibsen

March 1, 2025 by Malin Leave a Comment

I don’t know if a spoiler warning for a nearly 150-year-old play is necessary – but I will be revealing significant plot points when writing about this historical drama, so if you want to remain unspoiled, go read the play (it’s only three acts, it’s a relatively quick read) or watch a dramatisation, and come back when you’re done. Nora and Torvald Helmer are a middle-class couple living in Christiania (what Oslo was named for a few centuries in the before times) in the late […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History Tagged With: A Doll's House, adapted into film, cbr17, drama, Et dukkehjem, feminist, Henrik Ibsen, historical fiction, literary classic, Malin, misogyny, Norwegian

Malin's CBR17 Review No:11 · Genres: Fiction, History · Tags: A Doll's House, adapted into film, cbr17, drama, Et dukkehjem, feminist, Henrik Ibsen, historical fiction, literary classic, Malin, misogyny, Norwegian ·
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“Pleased to meet you, hope you guess my name…”

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

September 22, 2024 by Malin 1 Comment

3.5 stars Nowhere Books Bingo: Banned books (Wasn’t published until 27 years after Bulgakov’s death, and only then in a censored version. ) CBR16 Bingo: Cult (cult classic, and there’s the whole Devil and his entourage as a central plot point – that’s pretty cultish, right?) I can’t remember exactly how long The Master and Margarita has been on my TBR list, but it’s certainly more than twenty years. A quick glance on Goodreads shows me that 15 of my friends have rated it four […]

Filed Under: Featured, Fiction Tagged With: #fantasy, 20th Century, Allegorical, banned books, CBR16, cbr16bingo, Communism, cult, cult classic, historical fiction, horror, literary classic, Malin, Mikhail Bulgakov, Nowhere Book Bingo, political satire, The Master and Margarita, the soviet union

Malin's CBR16 Review No:57 · Genres: Featured, Fiction · Tags: #fantasy, 20th Century, Allegorical, banned books, CBR16, cbr16bingo, Communism, cult, cult classic, historical fiction, horror, literary classic, Malin, Mikhail Bulgakov, Nowhere Book Bingo, political satire, The Master and Margarita, the soviet union ·
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Confusing, but fun

To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis

August 10, 2024 by Malin Leave a Comment

Nowhere Book Bingo: Award Winner (Won the Hugo and Locus awards in 1998, plus a bunch of others) Smart Bitches Summer Bingo: Scene on a boat or body of water (there’s a lot of rowing on the river) CBR16 Bingo: Tech (time travel requires pretty specific technology) This is the second book in the Oxford Time Travel series, but you really don’t need to have read the first one, Doomsday Book, to understand and enjoy this one. In the universe these books are set in, […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, History, Mystery, Romance, Science Fiction Tagged With: #fantasy, #Science Fiction, adventure, CBR16, cbr16bingo, Connie Willis, funny, historical fiction, literary classic, Malin, mystery, Nowhere Book Bingo, Outland book club, Oxford Time Travel, Romance, Smart Bitches, tech, To Say Nothing of the Dog

Malin's CBR16 Review No:42 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, History, Mystery, Romance, Science Fiction · Tags: #fantasy, #Science Fiction, adventure, CBR16, cbr16bingo, Connie Willis, funny, historical fiction, literary classic, Malin, mystery, Nowhere Book Bingo, Outland book club, Oxford Time Travel, Romance, Smart Bitches, tech, To Say Nothing of the Dog ·
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Back to the future

June 23, 2018 by Malin 1 Comment

In what must be the most frightening birthday surprise ever, on Dana’s 26th birthday, as she is moving into a new house with her husband Kevin, she suddenly feels dizzy and gets transported away from her safe and familiar surroundings in 1976. She comes to in the woods by a river, where a boy is in the process of drowning. Dana reacts instinctively and wades into the water, rescuing the boy. Faced with the boy’s hysterical mother, and more terrifyingly, the boy’s angry father, who […]

Filed Under: Book Club, Fiction, History, Science Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: #CBR10, 19th Century America, CBR Book Club, civil war, historical fiction, literary classic, Malin, science fiction, time travel

Malin's CBR10 Review No:48 · Genres: Book Club, Fiction, History, Science Fiction, Suspense · Tags: #CBR10, 19th Century America, CBR Book Club, civil war, historical fiction, literary classic, Malin, science fiction, time travel ·
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