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The Pallbearers Club by Paul Tremblay

September 25, 2022 by Bea Pants Leave a Comment

Paul Tremblay is at his best when he’s making you question what’s actually happening in his novels. Was the teen girl in A Head Full of Ghosts really possessed? Was it really the apocalypse in The Cabin at the End of the World? That’s what he’s doing here in The Pallbearers Club; a story about a friendship that starts in the late 1980s and lasts until the present day. He first peppers you with the main characters recollections only to refute them a few pages later. You will […]

I Just Can’t Get You Outta My Head

Black Water Sister by Zen Cho

September 25, 2022 by Bea Pants 1 Comment

Black Water Sister is a standalone book written by the Zen Cho, the author of the Sorcerer to the Crown series. It may qualify as a sort of urban fantasy or a modern-day folk tale. It takes place in modern day George Town which is the capital of the island of Penang in Malaysia. It involves vengeful gods, sacred shrines, a dead grandmother speaking to her granddaughter and lots of shady corporate dealings. It’s also a story about a family and about the relationships […]

A candy colored clown they call the sandman

Preludes and Nocturnes (The Sandman #1) by Neil Gaiman

August 28, 2022 by Bea Pants Leave a Comment

I’ve actually read Preludes and Nocturnes multiple times since I was a wee 90s teen but I decided to give it a reread since the Netflix series dropped. I’ve been waiting for an onscreen version of Sandman for actual decades so a little refresh was in order so I could pick all the nits in the series. I have to say overall it does a great job of bringing Morphus and The Dreaming to life in a way that would not have been possible […]

For my friend Petra, without whom I would not be reading this series

The Grief of Stones by Katherine Addison

August 19, 2022 by Bea Pants 1 Comment

Petra was my dear friend and a dyed in the wool book nerd. She passed away this past November and I miss her terribly. I think of her any time I read one of these books because she recommended the first one and I’m sad that she’s not reading the series with me. The Grief of Stones is the third book in the Goblin Emperor series and the second book in The Cemeteries of Amalo series by Katherine Addison. The Cemeteries series follows Celehar, […]

Beware: At war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interest Than of any other disease.

Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler

September 23, 2021 by Bea Pants Leave a Comment

Octavia Butler’s sequel to Parable of the Sower is no less prophetic than its predecessor. The language is raw and unsparing but never revels in the pain the characters go through. It is also not without its small moments of joy. The found family of Earthseed is put to the test in this book and though they do not come away unscathed they manage to survive because of their strong bonds of community and love for one another. The story picks up five years […]

Well I certainly couldn’t…

You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacy by Amber Ruffin, Lacey Lamar

June 27, 2021 by Bea Pants Leave a Comment

It’s not an easy thing to make you laugh and fill you with incoherent rage but this book manages to do just that. Written by late night host Amber Ruffin and her sister Lacey Lamar, You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacy is a series of stories of the everyday racism dealt with by Lacey, who lives and works in Omaha, as told to her sister Amber who now lives in New York. Obviously this is not to say that there is no racism […]

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