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A believable and scary postapocalyptic future

Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

March 29, 2021 by caragwapa Leave a Comment

In this post-apocalyptic novel, there is not single earth shattering apocalyptic event.  Instead, there is just a gradual breakdown of society brought about by climate change, corporate greed and social inequality (all interrelated anyway).    Lauren Olamina is a relatively privileged teenager living in a small walled enclave.  She’s privileged in that she has a home, her father still has a job with a salary, and she knows how to read and write.  This is not much, but compared to the thousands, or maybe millions […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: Dystopian, Earthseed, Fiction, octavia butler, post-apocolyptic

caragwapa's CBR13 Review No:5 · Genres: Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: Dystopian, Earthseed, Fiction, octavia butler, post-apocolyptic ·
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I’m not sure if now was that right time to read a Royal Romance based on the current British Royals…

The Heir Affair by Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan aka The Fug Girls

March 15, 2021 by caragwapa Leave a Comment

I think I have mentioned in numerous comment diversions and facebook threads that I came to Pajiba by way of  GoFugYourself (by way of thefashionspot, by way fansofrealitytv by way of watching america’s next top model on youtube).  Needless to say, I have  a soft spot for The Fug Girls.  I don’t read the blog anymore because I can’t with the interface, but I have read some of their books, which are breezy, light and fun (as far as I can remember them). The Heir […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: heather cocks, Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan, Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan aka The Fug Girls, jessica morgan, Romance

caragwapa's CBR13 Review No:4 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: heather cocks, Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan, Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan aka The Fug Girls, jessica morgan, Romance ·
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Serial killer? I hardly new her!

My Sister, The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

March 14, 2021 by caragwapa Leave a Comment

From the first few paragraphs, the book instantly catches your attention.  I don’t think it is a spoiler to say that our narrator’s sister,is indeed a serial killer. The book opens with Ayoola calling Korede for help in cleaning up a mess — a bloody mess.  They are sisters living in Lagos, Nigeria.  Our narrator is Korede, she is ordinary looking, fastidious and methodical. A hard worker.  She works as a nurse and is efficient but unfriendly.  In fact, her only confidante is a patient […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: Oyinkan Braithwaite, Suspense, thriller

caragwapa's CBR13 Review No:3 · Genres: Fiction, Suspense · Tags: Oyinkan Braithwaite, Suspense, thriller ·
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My first non Murder Squad Tana French, and I still liked it

The Searcher by Tana French

March 7, 2021 by caragwapa 4 Comments

In 2020, I was super excited to read a Tana French book I found in my (virtual) bookshelf that I thought I had not yet read.  To my disappointment, it was just one of her (in my opinion) lesser novels, that now, a mere one year later, I have forgotten the ending to again.  This time, I made sure that this wasn’t a repeat.  EIther way, I’m sure that this would have been a memorable book because it is the most different from all other […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: Ireland, mystery, Tana French

caragwapa's CBR13 Review No:2 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: Ireland, mystery, Tana French ·
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On being alone and loving it, but also loving people

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

February 28, 2021 by caragwapa Leave a Comment

Piranesi lives in a house with many halls, with an Ocean trapped within. There are infinite statues, and birds and fish, and the remains of 13 people who had previously lived there. He lives in isolation save for the Other, who named him and spends one hour, twice a week with him, to talk of his scientific observations. The House is the only place Piransi knows, and he has lived there from the beginning of time. But the arrival of 16, as in the 16th […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: #fantasy, susanna clarke

caragwapa's CBR13 Review No:1 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: #fantasy, susanna clarke ·
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Post Apocalyptic Comfort

World War Z by Max Brooks

September 9, 2020 by caragwapa 2 Comments

Is it weird that World War Z is one of my comfort reads? I rarely reread books. I get anxious when I’m rereading because I keep thinking that I should be reading something new. I mean, my to be read list is not getting any shorter. World War Z is one of the few books that I have reread more than once. The others are The Drifters by James Michener, A Ring of Endless Light by L’Engle and Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Patterson. […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: caragwapa, cbr12, Max Brooks, post apocalytpic, zombies

caragwapa's CBR12 Review No:5 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: caragwapa, cbr12, Max Brooks, post apocalytpic, zombies ·
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