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About Claire Badger

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Claire enjoys Canadian Fiction, sci-fi and books about psychology.

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Heartwood

Greenwood by Michael Christie

March 29, 2021 by Claire Badger Leave a Comment

I have not been able to read very quickly for a long time. Between brain fog from going off a medication and brain fog from *gestures around* all this, my mind can rarely sit still long enough to stay motivated with a book for any sort of marathon session. Michael Christie has figured out the antidote, at least for me, with his tightly packed, well plotted and bracing book about four generations of the Greenwood family. It caused me to reflect on my own long […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Canadian Lit, Michael Christie, Trees

Claire Badger's CBR13 Review No:3 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Canadian Lit, Michael Christie, Trees ·
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Too much and not enough

Songs for the End of the World by Saleema Nawaz

March 29, 2021 by Claire Badger Leave a Comment

I wanted to like this book, but so much of it was a slog. It’s about a pandemic, coincidentally taking place over the fall and early winter of 2021, and yet unfolding at a slightly different rate than the one that hit us all in 2019. Nawaz can’t be blamed for getting some of the mundane aspects of quarantine wrong, although much of her understanding of how cities, states and countries respond with various measures that may or may not be effective bares a certain […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: pandemic, Saleema Nawaz

Claire Badger's CBR13 Review No:2 · Genres: Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: pandemic, Saleema Nawaz ·
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How we remember the future

Tales From The Loop by Simon Stalenhag

March 29, 2021 by Claire Badger Leave a Comment

I got into this book in the most backward way possible. I was looking for more Phillip Glass music, when I found his score for the show; so then I watched the show; then I bought the book. But it speaks to the quality of it that, as I flipped through the pages and looked at the vignettes and the memory-style stories, I put Glass’s music on and it matched perfectly. You may remember a few years back when a series of paintings of retro-style […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: Amazon, Simon Stalenhag, tales from the loop

Claire Badger's CBR13 Review No:1 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction · Tags: Amazon, Simon Stalenhag, tales from the loop ·
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I can’t even with this book

The Great Symmetry by James R. Wells

October 18, 2020 by Claire Badger Leave a Comment

You guys. I tried so hard with this book. I wanted to just read a silly, fun little sci-fi adventure but I could not get through this. I submit, at my best attempts to finish, this book to the DNR pile. It starts off strong, with a fun little space ship chase and the premise of a corporate controlled space future. It seemed simple enough and like it would just be, y’know, fun. Like not profound, not stupid, but fun. Except we end up in […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: disappointing sci-fi, James R. Wells

Claire Badger's CBR12 Review No:7 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: disappointing sci-fi, James R. Wells ·
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Farming for Babies

The Farm by Joanne Ramos

October 18, 2020 by Claire Badger Leave a Comment

Everyday, on my walk to work, I pass by a park full of Filipino caretakers watching over and playing with little white children. The neighbourhood I walk through is pretty gentrified, and it’s clear these women are nannies and not the mothers of these little ones. This time of day is as much the socialization time for each caretaker as it is for the children, and I can hear them speaking in their native tongue and sitting to the side having close talks with their […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Joanne Ramos

Claire Badger's CBR12 Review No:6 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Joanne Ramos ·
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