Summer is a good time for some fun with book titles. While you slather your body parts with sunscreen, let's insert some body parts into book titles. Change one word in a book title to a body part to make a fun new title. Here are some of mine: Lady Chatterley’s Liver The Armpit and the … [Read more]
The Wolf and his king by Finn Longman
Bingo Square: You (one of the novel’s POVs is 2nd person) I quite enjoyed this novel. It has a kind of dreamy quality to the writing; it’s a queer retelling of a 12th century French werewolf story, and it has a bit of barebones feel to the storytelling that makes it feel like a fairy tale and … [Read more]
Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk by Kathleen Hanna
My observation about punks, the real ones, is that they're hard on everyone. Even themselves. Their highest standards come from a desire for things to be better than they are. It's from having an open heart and caring deeply. In my younger years, a lot of my heroes were exacting artists who cared … [Read more]
A Parade of Horribles (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #8) by Matt Dinniman
I think this is in my top three of the series. The ending was one of the wildest things I've ever read in a book. But way too much happened here, and I have way too many thoughts to sum up my feelings, so we're going to bullet point this one with things that I'm thinking of off the top of my … [Read more]
Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky
CBR18 Bingo - joker: because some call them the space cowboy… Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky is the first book in the Final Architecture series. I see his work recommended a lot and I think I know his work. Then I realize I'm thinking of an imaginary person who is part Pyotr Ilyich … [Read more]
Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
What I've learned from dystopian/speculative fiction books, including this one, is that the revolution may not be televised, but the human rights abuses, the cruelty, the inhumanity, the degradation, and the state-sponsored violence will be streamed to the masses. On its face, Chain-Gang … [Read more]
Tradwife by Michelle Brandon
I received this book via NetGalley. This did not impact my rating or review. I don't know what to say. It's going to be really hard to not say a lot that spoils this book, but I have so many questions and ultimately feel dissatisfied with how Brandon went about ending this. And the reveals/twists … [Read more]
