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Reads books. Drinks tea. Pets cats. Connoisseur of all things cozy.

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Feral and Ferocious: Two Plays About Girls

The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe

Dance Nation by Clare Barron

June 10, 2022 by anana 1 Comment

The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe In the not-so-distant past, I performed frequently in small professional theatre productions. I’m a slightly-less-than 5’ tall woman, so I was often cast as teen and early-twenties characters, and I always had an eye out for plays that I could potentially pull monologues from for auditions. When The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe, a play about a high school girls’ indoor soccer team, started making waves and eventually was a finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer, it seemed like it could be […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: clare barron, feminist, Play, Sarah DeLappe, Theatre

anana's CBR14 Review No:15 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: clare barron, feminist, Play, Sarah DeLappe, Theatre ·
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“Mors irrumat omnia. Death f*cks us all.”

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

April 28, 2022 by anana 2 Comments

Apparently 2022 is the year I decided to become a Leigh Bardugo fangirl. So far I’ve read the Shadow and Bone trilogy as well as the Six of Crows duology from her Grishaverse, and now without even planning it I’ve read another Bardugo novel. I have literally no idea why or when I added this to my library  queue, other than that I first put it on hold before reading any of her other books, and I was probably half way through it before I […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Mystery Tagged With: Leigh Bardugo

anana's CBR14 Review No:13 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Mystery · Tags: Leigh Bardugo ·
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Hahahaha *sob* hahaha

Wow, No Thank You by Samantha Irby

Meaty by Samantha Irby

We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby

April 14, 2022 by anana 2 Comments

 Wow, No Thank You I first heard of Wow, No Thank You right after it came out in March 2020, when some of my friends talked about ordering it from our local feminist bookstore, Women and Children First.  They raved about how funny Samantha Irby is, and how fun it was to read a book by someone with such deep Chicago roots. Wow, No Thank You is Irby’s most recent book, and since it was the first one I had heard of, I ended up […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Samantha Irby

anana's CBR14 Review No:12 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor, Non-Fiction · Tags: Samantha Irby ·
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“No Mourners, No Funerals”

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo

April 4, 2022 by anana Leave a Comment

I picked up (and reviewed) the original Shadow and Bone trilogy after watching the Netflix series. At the time I read in various forums (including, I’m pretty sure, other Cannonball Read reviews) that the Grishaverse novels get even better in the spin-offs – and based off of these two books, I have to agree! While I enjoyed the Shadow and Bone trilogy well enough, I didn’t feel they brought anything particularly new or interesting to the fantasy genre, and overall I actually thought that the […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: #fantasy, grishaverse, Leigh Bardugo

anana's CBR14 Review No:9 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: #fantasy, grishaverse, Leigh Bardugo ·
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“Knowledge is Carnage”

The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake

April 1, 2022 by anana Leave a Comment

The Atlas Six came highly recommended by a friend, who is much cooler and trendier than I am and found it via something called “BookTok” which I hear is all the rage with the youths. The same friend was kind enough to lend me her library card credentials to be able to check it out from Libby, because there was a six month wait to check it out using my home library card!  The plot of The Atlas Six is a fairly standard “magic school” […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: #fantasy, booktok, Olivie Blake

anana's CBR14 Review No:7 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: #fantasy, booktok, Olivie Blake ·
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Fun, Fast Fantasy Reads

Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo

Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo

Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo

March 1, 2022 by anana Leave a Comment

I decided to read the Shadow and Bone series after watching the first season of the series on Netflix, and the general fantasy/magic world of the Grishaverse seemed like it would be my jam. If you’re looking to cut to the chase rather than reading my take on each book: if YA Fantasy is your thing, these books are worth reading! I tore through the whole series, and while it was certainly not perfect, it was very enjoyable and every book managed to be a […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: #fantasy, grishaverse, Leigh Bardugo

anana's CBR14 Review No:6 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: #fantasy, grishaverse, Leigh Bardugo ·
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