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About 1000Oysters

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1000Oysters(she/hers) is really bad at describing herself but got second place in a movie trivia night at the Lebowski Bar in Reykjavik one time.

1000Oysters's Reviews:

Fairy Tale

Fairy Tale by Stephen King

October 3, 2022 by 1000Oysters 1 Comment

I recently started dreaming again. Remember back in the early days of the pandemic, when “Covid dreams” were a thing? It was one of many times that I felt I was having an opposite experience of the pandemic. I had always dreamed complex and vivid dreams but once Covid started, my dreams stopped. I’ve had short periods where I didn’t seem to dream as much but for nearly two years, I don’t remember a single dream. I didn’t realize how much this affected me until […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Stephen King

1000Oysters's CBR14 Review No:18 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Stephen King ·
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Peter Darling

Peter Darling by Austin Chant

September 12, 2022 by 1000Oysters 1 Comment

Peter Darling by Austin Chant is not really a re-telling or extension of the Peter Pan story so much as it is a re-framing of something familiar that once read, makes complete sense. Most of my knowledge of Peter Pan comes from the Disney cartoon and an old recorded stage production starring Mary Martin that we taped off tv. Is this where I admit I have never read Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie? It appears that it is.  Peter Darling is rooted more deeply in the […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Austin Chant

1000Oysters's CBR14 Review No:17 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Austin Chant ·
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Data for supervillains

Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots

September 6, 2022 by 1000Oysters 2 Comments

Back in April 2012, I went to see The Avengers at my local theater. It was one of the most fun movie-going experiences I’ve ever had. I went by myself but I was definitely not alone – it was a packed house, even during a matinee, on a weekend, in my small town. In later years, I would see most MCU movies in the theater, in similar circumstances, but The Avengers was the first and it was fun. With age and, you know, everything, it’s a lot […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Fiction, Natalie Zina Walschots

1000Oysters's CBR14 Review No:16 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Fiction, Natalie Zina Walschots ·
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I’ve talked myself around to being really annoyed by this book.

The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels by India Holton

June 7, 2022 by 1000Oysters Leave a Comment

I wanted to enjoy this book more than I did. It’s not bad, it’s just very… first novel-y. Which is to say that the story has the sense that the author spent a lot of her younger years thinking about it and tries to cram in four different stories. Have you ever written an email and forgotten a word or two but your brain knows the words are supposed to be there, so it just inserts them when you proofread and then you send the email […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: India Holton

1000Oysters's CBR14 Review No:15 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: India Holton ·
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Sounds like a cult…

Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell

June 3, 2022 by 1000Oysters Leave a Comment

Oh, gosh, where to start! Language is an endlessly fascinating subject to me. What words we use, where those words came from and why we use the ones we use when we use them. Language is the foundation of culture and is used to include or divide, which seems super obvious but also begs the question of why? Why do certain words, in certain contexts evoke a particular response for certain people? Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell doesn’t attempt to provide an answer but […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Amanda Montell

1000Oysters's CBR14 Review No:14 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Amanda Montell ·
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Going West by Heading East

The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles

June 3, 2022 by 1000Oysters Leave a Comment

The Lincoln Highway was the first Trans-continental highway for cars in the United States. Between Laramie, WY and Cheyenne, WY on I-80, there is a bust of Abraham Lincoln that originally marked the highest point of elevation on the Lincoln Highway between New York and San Francisco. None of that is relevant in The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles, I just like the fun factedness of it all. Eighteen-year-old Emmett and eight-year-old Billy Watson have nothing to hold them to the farm in Nebraska. Their father […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Amor Towles

1000Oysters's CBR14 Review No:13 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Amor Towles ·
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