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Pest? A Matter of Perception

Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains by Bethany Brookshire

February 19, 2023 by LittlePlat 8 Comments

  What defines a pest, really? What makes one animal seen as a loveable little critter that we want to share our space with and the other an irredeemable menace marked for eradication?  In Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains, Bethany Brookshire attempts to answer this question, by  giving us a cultural history of our relationship with those species we deem ‘pest-y’ and what makes us so quick to assign them a villainous role.   One of things that really stood out to me is […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: Bethany Brookshire, Environmental responsibility, environmentalism, F**king Kevin, ferals, pests, squirrels

LittlePlat's CBR15 Review No:3 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: Bethany Brookshire, Environmental responsibility, environmentalism, F**king Kevin, ferals, pests, squirrels ·
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‘The Habsburgs were the first rulers whose power encompassed the world, and they achieved greatness by luck and by force.’

The Habsburgs: The Rise and Fall of a World Power by Martyn Rady

In The Last Emperor of Mexico: The Dramatic Story of the Habsburg Archduke Who Created a Kingdom in the New World by Edward Shawcross

January 18, 2023 by LittlePlat Leave a Comment

For all the royal watching going on right now, its the British Royal Family that’s hugging the spotlight. And, really, how could they not? Liz the Second—who we all thought was destined to live forever—shockingly popped her clogs last year. And now her grandson seems to be taking his turn airing out the dirty laundry, much to people’s delight. But the lives of royals are always ripe for high drama, if you are into that kind of thing. So I’m going to ring in the […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, History Tagged With: #history, audiobook, austria, boobs indulging in incompetent boobery, CBR15, CBR15Passport, Edward Shawcross, everyone is bastards, Habsbergs, Holy Roman Emperor, incest, Martyn Rady, mess, mexico, royalty, shave dickhead, world history

LittlePlat's CBR15 Review No:2 · Genres: Audiobooks, History · Tags: #history, audiobook, austria, boobs indulging in incompetent boobery, CBR15, CBR15Passport, Edward Shawcross, everyone is bastards, Habsbergs, Holy Roman Emperor, incest, Martyn Rady, mess, mexico, royalty, shave dickhead, world history ·
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Pedal-to-the-Metal

Blacktop Wasteland by S. A. Cosby

December 30, 2022 by LittlePlat 2 Comments

Well, this is a perfect book to review after Blood Sweat and Chrome? Going by the blurb of Blacktop Wasteland, I had been expecting a crime novel. But this is not really the case. What I got instead was a novel that was one part noir and many many parts most intense car changes I have ever seen committed to the written word. Now I may have made some grammatical clunkers there trying to convey the kind of feel you get from Blacktop Wasteland, but […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: Blacktop Wasteland, capers and heists, Noir, Pedal-to-the-Metal, S.A. Cosby

LittlePlat's CBR14 Review No:34 · Genres: Fiction, Suspense · Tags: Blacktop Wasteland, capers and heists, Noir, Pedal-to-the-Metal, S.A. Cosby ·
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A Niche Interest, But it’s MY Interest

Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road by Kyle Buchanan

December 18, 2022 by LittlePlat Leave a Comment

Aw hell yes! I love a good oral history. And I especially love a good oral history about a subject based on popular culture, as pop culture inherently generates a lot of fodder for the telling. And as many people here are probably  aware, I adore a great action film. Mad Max: Fury Road has been one of my favourites from the last decade or so. It is not often that we see a sequel—let alone a long belated one!—see so much critical acclaim. But […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: George Miller, Kyle Buchanan, Mad Max: Fury Road, oral history, Popular Culture

LittlePlat's CBR14 Review No:33 · Genres: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: George Miller, Kyle Buchanan, Mad Max: Fury Road, oral history, Popular Culture ·
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Whimsey in the Face of the Mundane

The House in the Cerulean Sea, by TJ Klune

December 16, 2022 by LittlePlat 1 Comment

This was a gift from last year’s book exchange, and while I finished it a while back, I think I put off reviewing it because I prioritised all the Hugo works for Bingo instead; I had a harder time fitting this into my scorecard calculus! What this did mean though is that I had some extra time to read through a second time around. And would you believe it was even more wonderful the second time? At the start of The House in the Cerulean […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: a little found family as a treat, cozy, fantasty, my heart, TJ Klune

LittlePlat's CBR14 Review No:32 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: a little found family as a treat, cozy, fantasty, my heart, TJ Klune ·
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Thank You andtheIToldYouSos, and Happy Holidays!

December 16, 2022 by LittlePlat Leave a Comment

Oh my God, I love it! Thank you andtheIToldYouSos! I know I am a bit of a pain when it comes to the book exchange because I don’t really leave much detail as to what to get me—decisions are hard! But I love everything here from the two new authors that I have never read before, the extraterrestrial-themed cards and mask, the Spice Girls card(!) And the friendship bracelets! (And they did they put me in mind of a certain someone, was that deliberate?) I […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: andtheIToldYouSos, Book Exchange, Book Exchange 2022, Friendship Bracelets!

Genres: Fiction · Tags: andtheIToldYouSos, Book Exchange, Book Exchange 2022, Friendship Bracelets! ·
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