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How we got here (to the summer of strikes)

Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood by Maureen Ryan

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CBR Bingo Square: Politics I read Maureen Ryan’s piece in Variety about the hellish writers room of Lost back in the spring, an excerpt lifted from this book as advance publicity, and it did the job of making me very curious about what else she had to say about power politics in Hollywood, particularly as it pertains to people who are not in front of the camera. Ryan does also have plenty to say about how actors are treated (see her discussion of Sleepy Hollow and all that went […]

monsters and miracles in Mexico

The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

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CBR Bingo Square: In the Wild I do love a good retelling, and early sci-fi seems especially ripe for the revisionist takes, given how centered they are on white male protagonists, and how absent the perspectives of women and POC are. So the idea of Moreno-Garcia’s follow-up to Mexican Gothic being a retelling of The Island of Doctor Moreau was a very appealing one, especially with moving the action to the Yucatan peninsula and engaging with Mexico’s history of indigenous resistance. Carlota, the eponymous daughter, is one of […]

Murder most delicious

Blackmail and Bibingka by Mia P. Manansala

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CBR Bingo Square: Edibles I love cooking, and I love murder mysteries, so I’m always happy when those two things coincide. Pushing Daisies had all that pie, Recipes for Love and Murder is very fun, etc etc. So I’ve also enjoyed Mia P. Manansala’s series focusing on Lila Macapagal and her Filipino family, particularly as audiobooks. Blackmail and Bibingka is the third in the series, and Lila, the baker-slash-mystery-solver, seems to finally have her life in order: the coffeeshop she opened with her best friend is doing great, […]

“attention forms the ground not just for love, but for ethics”

How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell

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CBR Bingo Square: GUIDE I got this in a CBR gift exchange…a couple years ago, maybe? And it has haunted me ever since as I kept finding reasons to read other things (I’m so busy with grading/researching! I’m in a nonfiction book club and those books keep taking up the nonfiction slot!). But after the spring semester wrapped, I went to South Africa to visit my sister, and I put this in my suitcase, determined to finally read it. And I did. And I liked it. I […]

“that mixture of the rational and the visceral that one commonly finds throughout human history”

Armed Struggle: The History of the IRA by Richard English

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CBR Bingo: History I’ve been doing a lot of Irish fiction and poetry over the past couple years, and informative as both of those can be about the past, sometimes you just need to read some history, too. So I have been picking my way through this fairly exhaustive history of the IRA from its early days in Ireland’s revolutionary decade up through the immediate post-Troubles era. And between everything else I was juggling, it took me a solid six months to finish this one, […]

“It’s harder to come back than it is to arrive”

In a Lonely Place by Dorothy Hughes

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CBR Bingo Square: Violence Maddeningly, I now don’t know what put Dorothy Hughes’s 1947 noir In a Lonely Place on my radar. (I thought it was Susan Straight’s 1001-book literary map of America, but…apparently not?) All I know is that I am a sucker for A) mystery novels, and B) novels about my home state, and what reliably ticks both boxes? Noir. And Dorothy Hughes was a new discovery for me, which made this novel all the more appealing. Also, deliciously, In a Lonely Place isn’t a […]



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