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About KimMiE"

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I love reading nonfiction books, especially ones about nature, zoology, brain chemistry, and psychology. I also love the classics, especially Victorian lit, but I'm pretty open to new genres.

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Sorry, guys, this just wasn’t for me

This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

April 3, 2021 by KimMiE" 1 Comment

I was excited when I saw this in one of my local little free libraries, because I remembered seeing several very positive reviews on CBR. Sometimes, though, things just don’t work out. On paper, it sounded great: love story between enemies; strong women kicking ass in battle; time travel triggering alternate histories. I wanted to love this. The execution just didn’t work for me. Red and Blue are agents in opposite sides of a war. Red’s side, “the Agency,” is a technotopia, and Blue’s side, […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: #Science Fiction, Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, award winners, CBR13, epistolary novel, KimMiE"

KimMiE"'s CBR13 Review No:15 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: #Science Fiction, Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, award winners, CBR13, epistolary novel, KimMiE" ·
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I have many thoughts, for which I’m having trouble finding words

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

March 28, 2021 by KimMiE" Leave a Comment

I didn’t know Susanna Clarke had a new novel until I spotted it on a trip to my favorite local bookstore. So many of us read and loved Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, with its elaborate plot, beautifully crafted characters, and Dickensian story-telling, I wondered how her new novel, so slim, would compare. Piranesi is as different from Jonathan Strange as it is equally wonderful. Piranesi lives in a house with many rooms, great halls, long corridors, and labyrinths. The lower level provides him with […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: #fantasy, CBR13, KimMiE", mystery, supernatural, susanna clarke

KimMiE"'s CBR13 Review No:14 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery · Tags: #fantasy, CBR13, KimMiE", mystery, supernatural, susanna clarke ·
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Murder mystery + ghost story

The Broken Girls by Simone St. James

March 28, 2021 by KimMiE" Leave a Comment

The Broken Girls is a combination murder mystery and ghost story. While flawed, it’s an entertaining read and does an admirable job balancing two murders in two time periods with the mysterious visions seen at a 1950s boarding school for “troubled” girls. In Vermont in 2014, journalist Fiona Sheridan is haunted by the 20-year-old murder of her older sister Deb. Although the killer, Tim Christopher, Deb’s former boyfriend and the son of an important local family, was quickly apprehended and has spent the last 20 […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: CBR13, ghost story, KimMiE", murder mystery, mystery, Simone St. James

KimMiE"'s CBR13 Review No:13 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: CBR13, ghost story, KimMiE", murder mystery, mystery, Simone St. James ·
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My mind is blown, and not because I’ve been sampling magic mushrooms

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make our Worlds, Change our Minds, and Shape our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake

March 21, 2021 by KimMiE" 11 Comments

I have read many books on science and natural history, but few have made me stop reading every few pages to look up and declare to whomever is within hearing distance (currently, my husband and cats, because we’re in a pandemic), “This is fascinating.” I don’t care if you’ve never read a book about nature in all your previous existence. Entangled Life will ensorcel you with tales of carnivorous mushrooms, zombie fungi, acid trips, and superhero microorganisms that could end up saving the planet. If […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: best British names, biology, CBR13, ecology, fungus, KimMiE", Merlin Sheldrake, nature, science

KimMiE"'s CBR13 Review No:12 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: best British names, biology, CBR13, ecology, fungus, KimMiE", Merlin Sheldrake, nature, science ·
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Don’t you hate when a book starts out strong only to disappoint you?

The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton

March 14, 2021 by KimMiE" Leave a Comment

I so thoroughly enjoyed 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle that I couldn’t wait to get my hands on Stuart Turton’s latest novel, a mystery set aboard a 17th century East Indiaman trade ship sailing from Batavia (now Jakarta) to Amsterdam. Within pages of meeting Sammy Pipps, a detective or “thief-catcher” of Holmesian perception, and his bodyguard/Watson/Boswell Arent Hayes, I was hooked. That’s the difficulty of strong openings: The rest of the novel has to live up to them. Now I’m sadly in the position of […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: British mystery, CBR13, KimMiE", locked room mystery, mystery, Stuart Turton

KimMiE"'s CBR13 Review No:11 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: British mystery, CBR13, KimMiE", locked room mystery, mystery, Stuart Turton ·
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