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Great. I was permanently stuck as a Fae Princess from Emotionland.

The Epic Crush Of Genie Lo by F. C. Yee

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I saw this reviewed by J back in February and thought it sounded awesome. It is awesome. It starts off fast and keeps going. I cannot stress enough what a flat out fun read this was. Eugenia “Genie” Lo is a high school student in the Bay Area. Her town is the poorer, less nice pocket of affluent Silicon Valley. She wants out, and the way out is acceptance to an Ivy League school and a career far away from San Francisco. Her single minded focus on academics and making herself appealing to admissions committees is shattered when Quentin shows […]

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5/24/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:21 |

In which my lack of knowledge of Russia may have been a problem

The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden

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I’m not sure I liked this as well as I could have. Some things feel unfulfilled. I know this is part of a series, and I plan to get my hands on book 2, but some of the characters and the world seems incomplete. I liked that this novel relied in more detail on the folklore traditions it was working with than Uprooted (which I loved), and you get to meet some of the creatures like the domovoi and the rusalka. I wish there was a little more information about the upyr though, and how/why the Bear chose them. Two […]

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5/23/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:30 |

Nourishment for My Soul

Carry On by Rainbow Rowell

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5 Stars I got this book for Pajiba Krampus because I knew I would love it. I finished Carry On and my husband asked me how it was. I clapped giddily and cried, that’s how much I enjoyed it. It’s based on the fan fiction that Cath is writing of a very Harry Potterish series in the book Fangirl. This book has a Chosen One character Simon Snow, and his roommate, Baz, who is a vampire. Simon’s best friend Penelope and his girlfriend Agatha. Cath writes her book at the end of the series and not the beginning, and a […]

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5/23/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:3 |

Episode 1-20: But Is It Really Your Story To Tell?

And The Rest Is History, Final Girls, Lovecraft Country, An Argumentation of Historians, You Should Have Left by Jodi Taylor, Riley Sager, Matt Ruff, Daniel Kehlmann

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Episode 1-20: But Is It Really Your Story To Tell? Wherein I review: 72. And The Rest is History (St. Mary’s Chronicles #8) by Jodi Taylor 73. Final Girls by Riley Sager 74. Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff 75. An Argumentation of Historians (St. Mary’s Chronicles #9) by Jodi Taylor 76. You Should Have Left by Daniel Kehlmann I leave behind time travel and plunge into horror.  I ponder whether as white straight men, if we have the right to tell certain stories.  And while Final Girls didn’t leave me gasping, Lovecraft Country blew my doors off and got under my […]

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5/23/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:76 |

It’s too hot for Christmas fluff, but here it is anyway

Polterheist by Laura Resnick

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This book was thoroughly enjoyable fluff. It had a very A. Lee Martinez feel, except for the romance. Esther is a struggling actress, in between roles and trying to make ends meet in New York City. In desperation, she takes a job at Fensters, a giant department store with an entire fourth floor dedicated to Solsticeland. Fensters has learned over the years that going multicultural gets you more customers, so the sprawling display includes holiday stations for every religion or nationality you can think of. Esther plays Dreidl, the Jewish elf, selling toys in a blue and white elf costume, […]

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5/22/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:12 |

Subtle, perceptive speculative fiction short stories

Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang

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I don’t often go for the short story format, but I needed to pick a book to fit the book challenge prompt “Book for a movie that you’ve already seen.” It almost never happens for me in that order, so I had to do a bit of sleuthing to find Stories of Your Life and Others, which contains the short story that eventually became the movie Arrival. I loved the entire collection of stories a lot more than I expected to. Ted Chiang has both a diverse imagination and a working intuition of how to make stories of this length […]

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5/22/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:26 |

A magical Oceans Eleven

The Palace Job by Patrick Weekes

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When I was home a few weeks ago, I talked my parents into watching Logan Lucky by describing it as “hillbilly Oceans Eleven.” It’s hard to not like a good caper – underdogs taking on the man in increasingly clever ways. My reviews on the Gentlemen Bastards series mostly bemoaned the lack of that cleverness and unkindly compared them to the Rogues of the Republic series so here I am, finally reviewing the ones I liked better. It’s Oceans Eleven, but with unicorns! Weekes manages the tough job of creating a wide cast of characters who are all fundamentally very good people without making […]

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5/22/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:54 |

A Mostly Average Riordan Novel

The Burning Maze by Rick Riordan

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After the last of the Norse mythology books, I honestly thought Riordan was losing his touch.  I don’t know that much about Norse mythology so I had been excited to use the series to learn more, but in the end, the series, and especially the last book, felt very rushed to me.  However, I was already two books into The Trials of Apollo series, and since I am nothing if not a completionist, I didn’t let that disappointment deter me from reading this one.  Overall, I actually liked this one.  Maybe Riordan just prefers the world of Greek and Roman mythology or […]

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5/22/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:82 |


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