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Sometimes All it Takes is “Good Onya Champ”

Un-cook Yourself: A Ratbag's Rules for Life by Nat's What I Reckon

October 17, 2021 by LittlePlat 6 Comments

I think I’ve made it clear before that I am not someone who is normally drawn to self-help books. I have also mentioned that Audible kind of takes issue with this rather strongly, and insists on throwing suggestions my way. But through either sheer persistence or will, it turns out that one did stick Probably because it is kind of—in part—a piss-take of self-help books anyhow. The other half is a genuine call for you to keep your chin up Champion!—because it is completely normal […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Cooking/Food, Health, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #memoir, cbr13bingo, cooking, humour, mental heath, metal, music, Nat's What I Reckon, self-care, so many tags

LittlePlat's CBR13 Review No:17 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Cooking/Food, Health, Non-Fiction · Tags: #memoir, cbr13bingo, cooking, humour, mental heath, metal, music, Nat's What I Reckon, self-care, so many tags ·
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An immensely exciting magic system in a novel with resolution

Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson

July 26, 2021 by Mobius_Walker 6 Comments

BINGO – OLD SERIES Mistborn: The Final Empire (also frequently known as just Mistborn) in the first in a series of novels that was originally published in 2006. Vin is an orphaned street thief who has had a tough life hopping from thieving crew to crew just trying to survive in Luthadel, the capital of the oppressive Final Empire. Vin is skaa (the lower, poor, working class) and not a part of the nobility, the ruling upper class who treat the skaa as sub-human. Ultimately, […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: brandon sanderson, cbr13bingo, magic, metal, Series

Mobius_Walker's CBR13 Review No:40 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: brandon sanderson, cbr13bingo, magic, metal, Series ·
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