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…every single beautiful lie he had been told during the course of his childhood…

Werewolves in their Youth by Michael Chabon

September 4, 2019 by Leedock 2 Comments

CBR11 BINGO: The Collection (BINGO! Remix corner to Summer Read corner) I don’t generally read very many short story collections. I like to dig into a story and often short fiction robs me of that a little bit. I’m invested and then it’s over. I think that’s why I tend to gravitate towards short story collections that are somehow linked by character or place. The connection is more satisfying for me. While Chabon’s collection here is not linked in that way, the stories are linked, in many […]

Summer is perfect for hot romance short stories

Burning Up by Nalini Singh, Angela Knight, Mejean Brooks, Virginia Kantra

August 10, 2019 by teresaelectro Leave a Comment

When reading a long series, it’s nice to take a break with a genre collection under an interesting theme. Burning Up brings together four authors who know how to bring the heat to a supernatural romance! As I heard only great things about Nalini Singh, I decided to bring this on my adult spring break trip to Hawaii. I procrastinated on my review and realized this is perfect for my Summer Reads bingo square. I highly recommend powering through a sexy anthology on the plane. […]

“I took a step toward her. ‘It is my right to reside in my own mind. It is my right,’ I said.” (CBR11Bingo)

Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

July 7, 2019 by faintingviolet 1 Comment

Her Body and Other Parties is all about expectations – both the ones on the page for the characters Machado created and for the reader as they come to the much hyped but little described work. I knew going in that the book was pushing boundaries, igniting conversations (the husband stitch, for example), and refused to stick to one genre at any given time, let alone for the entire collection. Having completed the book I understand why reviewers have, one the whole, been relatively mute […]

A Constellation of Tales

October 24, 2016 by melanir Leave a Comment

Though the title makes it sound like it’s a collection of new stories, The Starlit Woods is a collection of re-told fairy tales. I had a different perception going into the book, though being a fan of retold fairy tales I didn’t mind that the stories were retellings and not completely original stories. This is a really good collection of stories and while there were a couple I wasn’t fond of, most were very compelling. I decided to check this book out because the list […]

Not just Coyote

September 1, 2015 by sistercoyote Leave a Comment

So it turns out that I have downloaded/bought about eleventybillion titles for my Kindle and read less than half of them (I don’t feel too guilty about this, because books and also because a lot of them were freebies). Despite that lack of guilt, I’ve decided I need to go through and, well, make my way through all of them. At least in this case it wasn’t a total mistake.

“M is for Magic. All the letters are, if you put them together properly.”

July 27, 2015 by crystalclear 1 Comment

As I was wandering through my library looking for a new audiobook for my commute home, I decided to check out the YA section. I was looking for something easy and fun. We don’t have many audiobooks for that section (we’re trying to get kids to actually read!) but I was pleased to find this. A book by Neil Gaiman? Nice! Read by Neil Gaiman? Sweet! Is this meant for young children? No, I don’t think so. But older ones could get something out of […]

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