Welcome to the Week 10 CBR 14 Bingo Check-in! You can see the card and the rules on the kick-off post. This week’s mood: Cake! Happy birthday to my birthday twin Please check your tags and make sure you are using cbr14bingo. Ale – 6 reviews anana – 3 reviews andtheIToldYouSos – 10 reviews ardaigle – 9 reviews, 1 Bingo BlackRaven – Blackout booktrovert – 21 reviews, 5 Bingos Classic – Blackout CoffeeShopReader – 16 reviews, 1 Bingo Debcapsfan – 1 review Dome’Loki – 14 reviews, 1 Bingo drmllz – 3 reviews ElCicco […]
She’d been eyeballs-deep in chronic violence since birth.
A Curse of Queens by Amanda Bouchet.
Amanda Bouchet returns to the world of her Kingmaker Chronicles with a new book that focuses on Griffin’s younger sister, Jocasta, and his best friend, Flynn. Now that Cat and Griffin are installed as the Queen and King of a newly united Thalyria, they can no longer go adventuring. So when Cat is given the Elixir of Eternal Life (it’s a bad thing), they must remain at court, pretending everything is fine. Jocasta, an herbalist and healer, thinks she can find Circe’s island prison and […]
He looked at her with wonder, as if he’d seen an undiscovered ocean meant only for him to explore.
Witchful Thinking by Celestine Martin
A couple of years ago I read a charming witchy Yuletide short story in the first Love All Year anthology. The author was Celestine Martin and I kept an eye for her name. When Witchful Thinking popped up on NetGalley, I snatched it up. This is Martin’s debut novel and it is charming. It’s imperfect, it dragged a bit in the middle, and it took Alex an annoyingly long time to get himself together. That said, it was a lovely read with pluses that outweigh […]
A Delicious Bundle of Romance for a Great Cause
Tasty Treats by Courtney Milan, S.A. Chant, Erin McRae, Racheline Maltese, Eli Wray, Rebekah Weatherspoon, Jackie Lau, Claudie Arsenault, Valentine Wheeler, Missy Jane, Reina M. Williams, Susannah Nix, Stacey Agdern, Shannon O'Conner
The State of Texas hasn’t been very friendly to trans folks for a long time, but right now the current Governor and the most recent Legislature are actively hostile. They are targeting trans kids and their families, threatening to charge adults who support their non-binary and trans kids with child abuse. But this review isn’t about those goons. This review is about the four people who make up HEAs for Trans Kids and the authors who donated their books to raise money to support trans […]
We are the living that have always been here but have been erased.
All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson
I am pulling from a few recent books to construct this thought about All Boys Aren’t Blue and why this book is necessary. Empathy is a necessary component of understanding that other people have value. Empathy requires imagination and imagination needs at least a few points of reference. George M. Johnson’s memoir manifesto is their story of being black and queer in America. Their story is not intended to be the story, but a story that opens the doors for readers to find their own […]
CBR14 Bingo – Week 9 Check-in
Welcome to the Week 9 CBR 14 Bingo Check-in! You can see the card and the rules on the kick-off post. This week’s mood: We’re With the Banned. While getting ready for #CannonBookClub’s discussions of All Boys Aren’t Blue, The 1619 Project, and The Hate U Give, I was again reminded that while the state I live in is doing the most to be the worst, books and libraries are being challenged all over. So, I thought I’d offer some resources for fighting book banning. […]
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