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Personhood in Sci-Fi

Volatile Memory by Seth Haddon

July 26, 2025 by LB Leave a Comment

Volatile Memory fulfills the “purple” square on CBR17 bingo. Generally speaking, I don’t consider myself a sci-fi reader, but Volatile Memory kept coming across my feeds because it’s sapphic and I finally gave into the promo, and I’m glad I did because this ended up being a really interesting story. I’d put it in the same conversations as books like Automatic Noodle and The Stars Too Fondly for the ways it explores transness and gender through presentation as well as whether memories make a person […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: cbr17bingo, gay, memory, novella, personhood, queer, sapphic, Seth haddon, trans, trans woman

LB's CBR17 Review No:16 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction · Tags: cbr17bingo, gay, memory, novella, personhood, queer, sapphic, Seth haddon, trans, trans woman ·
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June 2022 Leftovers

The Cage by Bonnie Kistler

Gangsterland by Tod Goldberg

Gone 'Til November by Wallace Stroby

Cover Story by Susan Rigetti

Survivor's Guilt by Robyn Gigl

The Old Man by Thomas Perry

Iron Annie by Luke Cassidy

The Drop by Michael Connelly

The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy by David Nasaw

Barbed Wire Heart by Tess Sharpe

Amateur City by Katherine V. Forrest

Booth by Karen Joy Fowler

The Fury of Blacky Jaguar by Angel Luis Colón

He Kills Coppers by Jake Arnott

Lysistrata by Aristophanes

June 30, 2022 by Jake Leave a Comment

I was dealing with work turmoil and on vacation for most of June so I didn’t get the chance to write as many in depth reviews as I’d have liked to. Which is a shame because some of these deserved a longer look; I just didn’t have the time or energy… The Cage **** I went back-and-forth on my review. I’ve been giving out a lot of 4-star reviews lately and considered docking the book for that reason since it’s very borderline. But the more I […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir, Fiction, History, Mystery, Non-Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: Amateur City, Angel Luis Colón, Anna Delvy, Aristophanes, Barbed Wire Heart, Blacky Jaguar, Bonnie Kistler, Booth, Cat Person, CIA, Cover Story, David Nasaw, England, Erin McCabe, espionage, fashion, Florida, gangsterland, Gone Til November, Greece, harry bosch, He Kills Coppers, historical fiction, Ireland, Iron Annie, Jake Arnott, john wilkes booth, Joseph P. Kennedy, Judaism, karen joy fowler, Kate Delafield, Katherine V. Forrest, Las Vegas, legal thriller, LGBTQIA, los angeles, Luke Cassidy, Lysistrata, mafia, Michael Connelly, mystery, new jersey, New York City, Peloponnesian War, Play, Robyn Gigl, Sal Cupertine, Survivors Guilt, Susan Rigetti, Tess Sharpe, The Cage, The Drop, The Fury of Blacky Jaguar, The Old Man, The Patriarch, Thomas Perry, thriller, tod goldberg, trans, trans woman, Wallace Stroby

Jake's CBR14 Review No:115 · Genres: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir, Fiction, History, Mystery, Non-Fiction, Suspense · Tags: Amateur City, Angel Luis Colón, Anna Delvy, Aristophanes, Barbed Wire Heart, Blacky Jaguar, Bonnie Kistler, Booth, Cat Person, CIA, Cover Story, David Nasaw, England, Erin McCabe, espionage, fashion, Florida, gangsterland, Gone Til November, Greece, harry bosch, He Kills Coppers, historical fiction, Ireland, Iron Annie, Jake Arnott, john wilkes booth, Joseph P. Kennedy, Judaism, karen joy fowler, Kate Delafield, Katherine V. Forrest, Las Vegas, legal thriller, LGBTQIA, los angeles, Luke Cassidy, Lysistrata, mafia, Michael Connelly, mystery, new jersey, New York City, Peloponnesian War, Play, Robyn Gigl, Sal Cupertine, Survivors Guilt, Susan Rigetti, Tess Sharpe, The Cage, The Drop, The Fury of Blacky Jaguar, The Old Man, The Patriarch, Thomas Perry, thriller, tod goldberg, trans, trans woman, Wallace Stroby ·
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