Stranger Things – Cannonball Read 17

The Hellmouth May/May Not Be Located in Kentucky Thanks to Miner Barons

Starling House by Alix E. Harrow

July 10, 2023 by Flimflamingo Leave a Comment

Let’s get it out of the way for the CBR Bingo this is row 2, column 1: Dwelling. My rating on Storygraph is 3.5 and we don’t have have decimals and fraction ratings here, but this isn’t something I’d rate a 4. In that case, I’m CBR rating it a 3. I tagged Starling House #StrangerThings and I also tagged it #GothicRomance and #MiningCountry and, in sum, that’s how I’d describe the genre and even plot of this book. This is one I wasn’t sure I’d stick […]

Get in Babes, We’re Overcoming Shared Trauma

Let us Dwell in Fair Ithilien and There Make a Garden by materialism, sparklyslug

November 10, 2022 by Abi 1 Comment

There is something about the way that I appreciate fiction these days in that it’s the stuff that I see parts of myself in that hit the hardest. A lot of my reviews here are self-reflective to a lesser or greater extent. It’s probably a knock on effect of not knowing who I really was or not seeing myself in things for most of the first three decades of my life. With Stranger Things, or more specifically the fic written by the Stranger Things fandom, […]

Before Eleven

Stranger Things: Suspicious Minds by Gwenda Bond

August 27, 2019 by jeverett15 Leave a Comment

CBR11Bingo – And So it Begins (First Stranger Things Novel) This is a kind of book I would not normally read. Usually I’d assume that a tie-in novel to a popular TV series would just be a cash grab and not worth my time, especially if I knew going in that would feature very few of the characters from the show and, being a prequel, had some pretty strong limitations on where the plot could go. And yet, because of my affection for Stranger Things […]

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