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It’s about ethics in zombie journalism!

September 12, 2017 by ingres77 1 Comment

Zombies! So, I don’t have much luck with zombies. Stephen King’s Cell was pretty good, and Max Brooks’s zombie books are golden, but everything else is…..well, not worth talking about. Two things prompted me to give this one a go: I will always give zombies a go, because I always want those stories to be good (even though they rarely are), and Mira Grant is the pseudonym of Seanan McGuire, a fairly well-liked author in these parts whom I’ve never read. But I came away […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction Tagged With: Feed, journalism, Mira Grant, Seanan McGuire, zombies

ingres77's CBR9 Review No:61 · Genres: Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction · Tags: Feed, journalism, Mira Grant, Seanan McGuire, zombies ·
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Hi. I’m Badkittyuno, and I’ve fallen behind again…

July 27, 2017 by badkittyuno 5 Comments

Hi. Sorry. I really thought I was like 10 reviews behind and it turned out to actually be 19. So then I started up this list of reviews…and didn’t post it…and now I’m 26 behind. I would blame my kids/divorce/life, but really — I’d much rather read than write! Also, I’ve been working from home a lot and doing laundry instead of writing reviews (which is what I do when I get bored at the office), so that’s not helping. Anyway, here’s 26 brief reviews […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, History, Horror, Non-Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: A.S. King, Andrew Smith, Angie Thomas, anthony bourdain, CeeLo Green, Charles Yu, Dava Sobel, Gabourey Sidibe, J.G. Ballard, Jeffrey Tambor, Jennifer McMahon, Lindy West, Lyndsay Faye, Marc Summers, Margaret Atwood, Mark Kurlansky, Michael Oher, Nathan Rabin, Neil Armstrong, Neil Gaiman, Nick Offerman, Ruth Wariner, Samantha Irby, Sarah Forbes, Seanan McGuire, Stephen King, Terry Pratchett

badkittyuno's CBR9 Review No:158 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, History, Horror, Non-Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: A.S. King, Andrew Smith, Angie Thomas, anthony bourdain, CeeLo Green, Charles Yu, Dava Sobel, Gabourey Sidibe, J.G. Ballard, Jeffrey Tambor, Jennifer McMahon, Lindy West, Lyndsay Faye, Marc Summers, Margaret Atwood, Mark Kurlansky, Michael Oher, Nathan Rabin, Neil Armstrong, Neil Gaiman, Nick Offerman, Ruth Wariner, Samantha Irby, Sarah Forbes, Seanan McGuire, Stephen King, Terry Pratchett ·
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Be Afraid to Dream

July 21, 2017 by melanir Leave a Comment

I know, intellectually, that some people find horror to be cathartic and therapeutic. I may think those people are crazy, but you know I understand that they exist. I am not one of those people, I am the person who spent the whole night in terror because I finished Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None at midnight and was so haunted by the imagery and the deaths that I couldn’t get to sleep (I was 20). And yet, the power of my love for […]

Filed Under: Horror Tagged With: Mira Grant, Seanan McGuire

melanir's CBR9 Review No:63 · Genres: Horror · Tags: Mira Grant, Seanan McGuire ·
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I Slam The Door But Watch What I Say

June 26, 2017 by melanir 4 Comments

Down and Among the Sticks and Stones by Seanan McGuire is a prequel to Every Heart A Doorway, which I loved, however it is definitely the weaker novel and suffers quite a bit in comparison. I wanted to like this book, but I just didn’t. This book follows Jack and Jill, who were secondary characters in EHAD, and tells the story of how they found their doorway and what lay behind it. They travelled to a fairy world that inspired Victorian monster novels, a place […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: Seanan McGuire, Wayward Children

melanir's CBR9 Review No:52 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: Seanan McGuire, Wayward Children ·
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A Suitcase Full of Rainbow Clothes

May 15, 2017 by Emmalita Leave a Comment

Eleanor West runs a boarding school for teens who don’t fit in. The secret is, they aren’t just misfits, they have spent time in a fairy world and desperately want to go back. They are not changelings or half-fae, they are human children who disappeared and came back different. The school is both a refuge and a place to learn how to get a long in world that is no longer considered home. Nancy had been a sunny child who laughed and wore colors until she […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: Every Heart a Doorway, fantasy, horror, Seanan McGuire

Emmalita's CBR9 Review No:39 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: Every Heart a Doorway, fantasy, horror, Seanan McGuire ·
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Some days I don’t know if I am wrong or right

March 29, 2017 by Lipton Leave a Comment

“My theory of combat is simple: keep it as far away from myself as I can. I am a soft, squishy creature, with lots of moving pieces, and I want to keep all those moving pieces safely contained inside my skin.” -Antimony Price

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: incryptid series, magic for nothing, Seanan McGuire, Urban Fantasy, urban fantasy series

Lipton's CBR9 Review No:10 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: incryptid series, magic for nothing, Seanan McGuire, Urban Fantasy, urban fantasy series ·
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