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The Dragon Revenant

The Tomb of Dragons by Katherine Addison

October 11, 2025 by LittlePlat Leave a Comment

A few weeks back, I wrote a review for Katherine Addison’s The Angel of the Crows. Reading this book was actually a bit of tangent for me; I had been meaning to hunt down the third book in her Cemeteries of Amalo series, The Tomb of Dragons. And then I got distracted by the book whose existence became as a surprise. And a massive library hold time. The Tomb of Dragons is the third book in the Cemeteries of Amalo set, which are, in turn, […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: cbr17bingo, colonialism, dragons, genocide, katherine addison, lgtbqia, mystery, speculative, TBR, the goblin emperor, the witness for the dead

LittlePlat's CBR17 Review No:30 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: cbr17bingo, colonialism, dragons, genocide, katherine addison, lgtbqia, mystery, speculative, TBR, the goblin emperor, the witness for the dead ·
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“So long as I have questions to which there are no answers, I shall go on writing.”

The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector, Benjamin Moser (translator)

September 19, 2025 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

 The Hour of the Star is a book that climbed onto this year’s TBR by the Read Harder Challenge. One of this year’s tasks is to read a work of literary fiction by a BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, and/or disabled author. So, I went to books already on my radar to see if any fit the bill and sure enough Clarice Lispector’s final book did just that (Lispector was severely injured in a fire in her 40s and nearly lost her hand). It also was a book […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbr17bingo, Clarice Lispector, Benjamin Moser (translator), literary fiction, novella, read harder challenge, TBR, work in translation

faintingviolet's CBR17 Review No:38 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr17bingo, Clarice Lispector, Benjamin Moser (translator), literary fiction, novella, read harder challenge, TBR, work in translation ·
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This book has been 16 years on my TBR list, and I don’t think I added it until a few years after it came out

The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale

August 5, 2025 by Malin Leave a Comment

3.5 stars StoryGraph Easy Read Challenge: A book with flowers, plants or leaves on the cover Buzzword Title Challenge 25: Animals (Birds are animals, right?) Nowhere Book Bingo 2025: A YA book CBR17 Bingo: TBR (I bought this back in 2009, it’s been on my TBR for 16 years) Anidora-Kiladra, the Crown Princess of Kildenree is taught the language of animals by her aunt while she is still a girl, but she has to hide this from people around her. Unfortunately, she’s unconventional enough that […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: buzzwords title, cbr17, cbr17bingo, coup, fairy tale retelling, friendship, historical fantasy, Malin, Nowhere Book Bingo, romantic, Shannon Hale, StoryGraph Easy Challenge, TBR, The Books of Bayern, The Goose Girl, Young Adult

Malin's CBR17 Review No:48 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: buzzwords title, cbr17, cbr17bingo, coup, fairy tale retelling, friendship, historical fantasy, Malin, Nowhere Book Bingo, romantic, Shannon Hale, StoryGraph Easy Challenge, TBR, The Books of Bayern, The Goose Girl, Young Adult ·
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When You See the TV Glow

Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) by Hazel Jane Plante

July 14, 2025 by Jake Leave a Comment

Read as part of CBR17 bingo: TBR The trans experience is messy. It’s muddled. It has no straight (heh) line. There is little synthesis of other persons trans experiences. To paraphrase a famous saying about autistic folk: if you’ve met one person that’s trans, that means you’ve encountered only one trans experience. And I think that’s what Hazel Jane Plante is going for with this one. A beautiful, painful capturing of a friendship that meant more, it’s a reminder that trans people tell these stories […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: cbr17bingo, Hazel Jane Plante, LGBTQIA, Little Blue Encyclopedia, TBR, trans

Jake's CBR17 Review No:25 · Genres: Uncategorized · Tags: cbr17bingo, Hazel Jane Plante, LGBTQIA, Little Blue Encyclopedia, TBR, trans ·
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“She would’ve been a good woman,” said The Misfit, “if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.” (Bingo!)

A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor

October 30, 2019 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

This is my first O’Connor, which seems strange as a Catholic raised in the American South (maybe if I had gone to a catholic school?) and it is both fascinating and darkly comic, which I don’t know that I was ready for. O’Connor is asking the reader what does it mean to be good? What does it mean to be moral? Those questions are the heart of A Good Man is Hard to Find, and then doubled down by making it the title piece of […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Short Stories Tagged With: A Good Man is Hard to Find, cbr11bingo, faintingviolet, Flannery O'Connor, short story, TBR

faintingviolet's CBR11 Review No:53 · Genres: Fiction, Short Stories · Tags: A Good Man is Hard to Find, cbr11bingo, faintingviolet, Flannery O'Connor, short story, TBR ·
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The war had made a man of him! It had coarsened him and hardened him. There was no other way to look at it.

Some Do Not by Ford Madox Ford

No More Parades by Ford Madox Ford

July 12, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Cbr11Bingo – Classics Some Do Not This is the opening novel of the Ford Madox Ford tetralogy, Parade’s End. I imagine he’s as well-known for this novel as his other major work The Good Soldier, but this definitely feels like the culminating work. For one thing, the four novels together are over 800 pages, and while The Good Soldier is a very good novel, this feels like a much more sweeping statement on the world. The lead character is statistician and war officer, Christopher Tietjens, […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbr11bingo, classics, ford madox ford, no more parades, parade's end, some do not, TBR

vel veeter's CBR11 Review No:400 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr11bingo, classics, ford madox ford, no more parades, parade's end, some do not, TBR ·
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