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Kink: Stories by R. O. Kwon, Garth Greenwell

Terminal Boredom by Izumi Suzuki

A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers

Sword Stone Table: Old Legends, New Voices by Swapna Krishna, Jenn Northington

Welcome to Night Vale by Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor

Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch by Rivka Galchen

August 29, 2021 by andtheIToldYouSos 5 Comments

Hey y’all- long time, no read! I took some time off from reviewing while on vacation, then let vacation mind take over all of my non-work mind and found myself in a reviewing hole. Then, work swallowed me whole. I started writing this on August 9th. Just finishing it now on the 29th-Cait Also, I haven’t been reading reviews here either, so be prepared for a wave of comments coming your way! Good news: I truly enjoyed all seven of these books. One was a […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Fantasy, Fiction, History, Horror, Romance, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: audio, Becky Chambers, cbr13bingo, Ernest Hemingway, favorites, Garth Greenwell, historical fiction, Izumi Suzuki, Jenn Northington, Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor, kink, monk and robot, monk and robot #1, mythic, new series, Night Vale, pandemic, people, podcast, R. O. Kwon, R.O. Kwon, Garth Greenwell, re-read, rec'd, retellings, Rivka Galchen, shelfie, Swapna Krishna, Swapna Krishna, Jenn Northington, they/she/he, vacation reads, Welcome to Night Vale

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR13 Review No:75 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Fantasy, Fiction, History, Horror, Romance, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction, Suspense · Tags: audio, Becky Chambers, cbr13bingo, Ernest Hemingway, favorites, Garth Greenwell, historical fiction, Izumi Suzuki, Jenn Northington, Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor, kink, monk and robot, monk and robot #1, mythic, new series, Night Vale, pandemic, people, podcast, R. O. Kwon, R.O. Kwon, Garth Greenwell, re-read, rec'd, retellings, Rivka Galchen, shelfie, Swapna Krishna, Swapna Krishna, Jenn Northington, they/she/he, vacation reads, Welcome to Night Vale ·
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The World Does Not Belong to Us Alone

Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald

August 29, 2021 by blauracke Leave a Comment

In this collection of 41 essays Helen Macdonald writes about a wide variety of subjects concerning nature and the way humans relate to it, ranging from a solar eclipse and migrating birds to migraines and mushrooms. This landed on my TBR list when I read this review by KimMiE” which made me curious about the book. I am glad that I followed her advice and read it slowly over several weeks, one essay at a time, because I don’t think I would have enjoyed it […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: cbr13bingo, helen macdonald, rec'd

blauracke's CBR13 Review No:18 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: cbr13bingo, helen macdonald, rec'd ·
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“Keep Reading. Keep Writing. Keep Fighting. We’re all still here.”

This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone

August 1, 2021 by faintingviolet 2 Comments

I was intimidated by this book, which feels like a strange thing to say about a book that measures no more than 7 inches tall and less than 200 pages. But I was. A book that inspires so many positive, nay gushing, reviews that also seems to leave the reviewer at a loss for how to describe the book (see please reviews by Aquillia, andtheIToldYouSos, carriejay, and emmalita as a place to start) had me putting it on and taking it off my to read […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: Amal El-Mohtar, Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone, cbr13bingo, epistolary novel, faintingviolet, Max Gladstone, queer romance, read harder challenge, rec'd, Romance, spy novel, Suspense, this is how you lose the time war, time travel, two hander

faintingviolet's CBR13 Review No:36 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Suspense · Tags: Amal El-Mohtar, Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone, cbr13bingo, epistolary novel, faintingviolet, Max Gladstone, queer romance, read harder challenge, rec'd, Romance, spy novel, Suspense, this is how you lose the time war, time travel, two hander ·
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The Complete Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S Grant – Ulysses S Grant (1885)

The Complete Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S Grant by Ulysses S Grant

July 24, 2021 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

CBR13Bingo – Rec’d (https://everyday-offershub.com/2020/12/personal-memoirs-and-the-autobiography-of-benjamin-franklin-thewheelbarrow/) There’s a few reasons why this is probably the pinnacle of presidential memoirs. For one, Grant is the second most important military commander in US history (arguably the first but regardless). Two, his prose is pretty straight-forward, readable, and succinct. Three, he spends a lot of time citing sources, debunking myths (often in gracious and conciliatory ways, usually elevating someone’s else status or lauding or defending them — both friend and enemy). Four, he more or less only covers the war. […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir Tagged With: cbr13bingo, rec'd, Ulysses S Grant

vel veeter's CBR13 Review No:325 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: cbr13bingo, rec'd, Ulysses S Grant ·
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