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“Do geese see God?”

A Line to Kill (Hawthorne and Horowitz, #3) by Anthony Horowitz

July 22, 2022 by narfna Leave a Comment

I didn’t realize how in the mood I was for the vibes this series gives off. I read this book so fast. There’s something so strange yet so compelling about Horowitz’s fictional detective, Hawthorne, who continues to be unlikable, baffling (to us the readers, and to his “biographer,” a fictional version of Horowitz himself), contradictory, and yet he gets the job done, thwarting both reader’s desires and the fictional character Hawthorne in the process. It’s strange, but it works. This third pairing of the duo […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: a line to kill, Anthony Horowitz, meta, mystery, narfna, the author is a character, writing about writing

narfna's CBR14 Review No:111 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: a line to kill, Anthony Horowitz, meta, mystery, narfna, the author is a character, writing about writing ·
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Am I Too Dumb for this Book?

Mr. Fox by Helen Oyeyemi

July 21, 2022 by Ale Leave a Comment

Crystalclear listened to the audio version of Mr. Fox and wasn’t sure how she felt about it, but it’s speculative-leaning and maybe reading the actual book would be a different experience, so she suggested it to me. While I do think it was better to read it than to listen to it (Oyeyemi does a lot with fonts, blank space, and paragraph structures that make way more sense looking at it than listening to it), I also am not totally sure how I felt about Mr. […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: cbr14bingo, desire, Helen Oyeyemi, mindgames, Minds, non linear stories, Writers, writing about writing

Ale's CBR14 Review No:11 · Genres: Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: cbr14bingo, desire, Helen Oyeyemi, mindgames, Minds, non linear stories, Writers, writing about writing ·
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Neil Gaiman is My Chesterson

The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction by Neil Gaiman

November 18, 2021 by Ale Leave a Comment

I’ve had The View from the Cheap Seats on my TBR for a long time. For once, the university library had a book I actually wanted to read, so I checked it out while waiting for my local library request to come in. Gaiman’s collected nonfiction rides the gamut from his introductions to many novels, to speeches given at award ceremonies and conventions and interviews from his career as a journalist, as well as musings on writing and recollections on the people and books that have […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: #Gaiman, #writing, essays, interviews, Neil Gaiman, speeches, writing about writing

Ale's CBR13 Review No:23 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: #Gaiman, #writing, essays, interviews, Neil Gaiman, speeches, writing about writing ·
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The More Things Change & The Weird Wild West

How to Suppress Women's Writing by Joanna Russ

Silver on the Road by Laura Anne Gilman

January 22, 2019 by sistercoyote Leave a Comment

The last two-book review I wrote was compare and contrast, because the material in each book related to the other book. This time, not so much: one is non-fiction, and one is fiction, and without performing some mental calisthenics at a level I’m not willing to do right now I don’t think I could write a unified review. 

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Non-Fiction, Western Tagged With: cbr11, Fiction, joanna russ, Laura Anne Gilman, non fiction, readwomen2018, sistercoyote, Thought pieces, Weird West, writing about writing

sistercoyote's CBR11 Review No:5 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Non-Fiction, Western · Tags: cbr11, Fiction, joanna russ, Laura Anne Gilman, non fiction, readwomen2018, sistercoyote, Thought pieces, Weird West, writing about writing ·
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