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Not As Many People Die as You Would Expect

The Twelve by Justin Cronin

January 25, 2023 by Tracy Leave a Comment

“Present day” in The Twelve is set about 5 years after events in The Passage. Some of the former cast of characters are tracking down virals, or trying to, at any rate. Others are slaves in Iowa in a settlement of sorts run by “redeyes” – people who are essentially “familiars” to the virals. Their nefarious plan is to have the 11 remaining virals move into something like a bunker in the town so they have a steady supply of food (i.e., people and livestock) […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: #Science Fiction, Justin Cronin, the passage, vampires

Tracy's CBR15 Review No:2 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #Science Fiction, Justin Cronin, the passage, vampires ·
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Quite an Epic

The Passage by Justin Cronin

January 12, 2023 by Tracy Leave a Comment

Where to start? There so much that happens in this 800-page novel, which almost defies genre. Is it science fiction? Dystopian? Horror? Probably all of those, and more. The novel starts in the near future, or what was probably the near future at the time it was written over a decade ago. Humans have discovered a naturally-existing virus that, when it doesn’t kill them, essentially turns people into vampires: long-lived, strong, easily heal, don’t do well in sunlight, etc. As mankind is wont to do, […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: #Science Fiction, Justin Cronin, vampires

Tracy's CBR15 Review No:1 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #Science Fiction, Justin Cronin, vampires ·
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COVID and Traveling Gave Me Time to Read

Normal People by Sally Rooney

The Fairy Godmother by Mercedes Lackey

October 30, 2022 by Tracy Leave a Comment

I had started reading Normal People quite some time ago but put it down for long enough that when I was ready to start reading it again, I decided to just start over, and I think that helped my enjoy the book more. The re-read of part of the book helped me understand the characters in a way that I hadn’t the first time I started reading it. At this point, probably most people know the plot. Marianne Sheridan and Connell Waldron grew up in the […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: #fantasy, Fiction, Mercedes Lackey, Normal People, Sally Rooney

Tracy's CBR14 Review No:4 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: #fantasy, Fiction, Mercedes Lackey, Normal People, Sally Rooney ·
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“Obviously She Was a Person to Whom Things Happened”

National Velvet by Enid Bagnold

January 24, 2022 by Tracy 1 Comment

I remember reading National Velvet multiple times when I was younger. I was one of those horse crazy girls – show me a book about a horse and I’d read it. I recently decided to give it a re-read, and I think it holds up pretty well. The main character is Velvet Brown, youngest (age 14) daughter of a butcher father and a mother who had famously swum the Channel years before. Velvet has a quirky imagination that is tolerated and even supported by the […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Enid Bagnold, Fiction, horse racing, horses

Tracy's CBR14 Review No:2 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Enid Bagnold, Fiction, horse racing, horses ·
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Existential Wisdom in a Small Package

Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach

January 6, 2022 by Tracy Leave a Comment

I finished this book just before the new year, then immediately reread it and finished it again yesterday. I needed the time to process and absorb it. It has some of what I think would be considered postmodern elements, and I needed the re-read to help me separate the fiction from the philosophy of how to view the world. Richard (the narrator, not the author) meets Donald Shimoda while barnstorming: flying from farm town to farm town and taking locals for airplane rides. Donald used […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Fiction, Philosophy, Religion, richard bach

Tracy's CBR14 Review No:1 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Fiction, Philosophy, Religion, richard bach ·
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Getting One In Under the Wire

Pregnancy Day by Day by DK

December 26, 2021 by Tracy 1 Comment

When you’re newly pregnant, it’s easy to be overwhelmed by the quantity of pregnancy and baby books that are out there. There were two that I ended up using the most, one of them being Pregnancy Day by Day, published by DK and edited by Maggie Blott. I love the format of this book. They really do go day by day for the pregnancy, starting with day 1 of your menstrual cycle and going up to 40 weeks (although I stopped reading around 38 weeks […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: DK, Maggie Blott, non fiction, pregnancy

Tracy's CBR13 Review No:5 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: DK, Maggie Blott, non fiction, pregnancy ·
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