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The Resisters

The Resisters by Gish Jen

I, Autohouse by Gish Jen

June 23, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

The Resisters Previously this week I read the book The Body Scout by Lincoln Michel which involves a future baseball league that began as a splinter organization to allow augmented players. I described that novel as if Robert Coover wrote Blade Runner. Now this novel (which predates that novel by about a year — and I think it’s only fair to assume both writers were working independently respectively) is more like what if WP Kinsella wrote Nineteen Eighty Four. See the difference? Well, actually the […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Gish Jen

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:335 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Gish Jen ·
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Guilty Gore

Aliens: Phalanx by Scott Sigler

June 23, 2022 by Caesar's Wife Leave a Comment

Okay, so we can all agree that Alien is amazing, right? That the xenomorph is a genuinely terrifying creation and something that we’ve all had at least one nightmare about, yes? Good. So imagine you are one of the few human settlements left surviving on a land razed by xenomorphs (or ‘demons’, as you know them to be). You live like insects inside a mountainside, clinging to life by the thinnest of margins. Your settlement sends it’s young and able-bodied to trade essential items with […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror Tagged With: Scott Sigler

Caesar's Wife's CBR14 Review No:15 · Genres: Fiction, Horror · Tags: Scott Sigler ·
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Wealth Economics

The Mandibles: A Family, 2029–2047 by Lionel Shriver

June 23, 2022 by Caesar's Wife Leave a Comment

The Mandibles are a complex family Perched at the top of the family tree is the obscenely wealthy aging patriarch and his second wife, who live a life of luxury in an assisted living home for the richest of the rich. They spend their days admiring their collection of first editions in their library and enjoying the fruits of their wealth. Next branch down is the doting son who bites his tongue while longing for his inheritance to come to fruition, and the distant daughter […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: Lionel Shriver

Caesar's Wife's CBR14 Review No:12 · Genres: Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: Lionel Shriver ·
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“Life is something we need to stop correcting. My boy was a pocket universe I could never hope to fathom. Every one of us is an experiment, and we don’t even know what the experiment is testing.”

Bewilderment by Richard Powers

June 22, 2022 by cheerbrarian 2 Comments

In one word: Gutting I have something shocking to say. I hope you’re sitting down. I’m behind in my book reviews. I KNOW, I KNOW. Utterly surprising, as um, it’s become my habit, wherein I let a few books pile up, and then stress about being “behind” which I am using quotation marks to illustrate the falsity of this statement. Because how can I be “behind” in a hobby that is supposed to be fun. I mean, these are not required book reviews for a […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: Bewilderment, death of parent, Environment, nature, oprah's book club, richard powers, science

cheerbrarian's CBR14 Review No:22 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: Bewilderment, death of parent, Environment, nature, oprah's book club, richard powers, science ·
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I’m already dead

Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune

June 22, 2022 by Ellesfena Leave a Comment

Under the Whispering Door isn’t a sequel to The House in the Cerulean Sea, even though the covers look so similar–and even though TJ Klune uses the word “cerulean” no less than three times throughout the book, which is three times more than I’ve ever seen it in any other book besides The House in the Cerulean Sea. It felt sort of thematically the same, though–a sweet love story, a redemption story, and one about found family. I think I liked The House in the Cerulean Sea better. Under the […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: afterlife, LGBTQ, TJ Klune

Ellesfena's CBR14 Review No:13 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: afterlife, LGBTQ, TJ Klune ·
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“It was the worst fact of parenthood, that what you did mattered so much more than anything you said”

This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub

June 22, 2022 by jomidi Leave a Comment

I love time travel. To me, nothing is better than a good time travel book. (I know I say this every time I review a book with time travel.) I have read and enjoyed Emma Straub’s other books, so I was eagerly looking forward to this one. I was thrilled when I learned it would have time travel in it. (Also, you have to love Straub, as she owns an independence book store in Brooklyn.) In This Time Tomorrow, Alice’s life at 40 is not […]

Filed Under: Book Club, Fiction Tagged With: Emma Straub, this time tomorrow, time travel

jomidi's CBR14 Review No:6 · Genres: Book Club, Fiction · Tags: Emma Straub, this time tomorrow, time travel ·
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