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About Claire Badger

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Claire is from Toronto. In her non-book reading time she gardens, plays with cats, and organizes things all day.

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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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Too Many Extremes

The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders

September 13, 2020 by Claire Badger 1 Comment

In August, LittlePlat wrote about this book and I thought “huh, that sounds up my alley,” and I quickly bought it and started to read it. It took a while to get into, but by the second half of the book I couldn’t put it down, and spent a rainy day at the cottage finishing it up. I love the world building. Tidal locked planets seem to be a hot topic in sci-fi these days, and I’ve enjoyed reading some of the ideas about how […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: #Science Fiction, charlie jane anders, queer, sci-fi, Tidal Locked Planet

Claire Badger's CBR12 Review No:5 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #Science Fiction, charlie jane anders, queer, sci-fi, Tidal Locked Planet ·
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You don’t have to be grateful for sex

We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby

August 11, 2020 by Claire Badger Leave a Comment

I needed to read some essays. I needed those essays to be written by someone very different from me in life and circumstances, but ultimately kind of the same as me in mindset and attitude. Thus I found Sam Irby, and because the book has a picture of a kitty on it, I pulled it off the shelf, opened to a random page, laughed my ass off in the store, and bought it. Irby is the queen of I don’t give a fuck this is […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: Samantha Irby

Claire Badger's CBR12 Review No:4 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: Samantha Irby ·
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Dispatches from the past

The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm

August 11, 2020 by Claire Badger 1 Comment

I can’t remember how I came across Fromm’s seminal treatise, The Art of Loving, but it was in mid-April, when I was trying to figure out how to make sense of an exceptionally narcissistic individual and how he’d turned my life upside down. I read a chapter, and while it resonated and struck me as vital, I couldn’t put it into the framework of what I was coping with, so I put it down for three months as I worked through a lot of that. […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: Erich Fromm

Claire Badger's CBR12 Review No:3 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: Erich Fromm ·
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