Recently a coworker asked us to send some of our favorite Banned and Challenged book titles and a little snippet about it and/or why we love it. I emailed her back and said did she want them alphabetically, order of importance or just my favorite? How did I approach it? I thought, send a few favorite author(s), but that was too many. Just every book I read that has been B-and/or-C? Way too many to do. Therefore I said “Make it simple.” And found a […]
Being Home Sick = Lots of Time to Read
The City of Brass by S. A. Chakraborty
A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna
Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn
cbr17bingo – TBR (for The City of Brass) and my 3rd BINGO The City of Brass This has been on my TBR for ages, and I’m glad I finally got to it. It’s a Middle Eastern-inspired historical fantasy that follows the POVs of Nahri, a con woman living in Cairo when we first meet her, and Ali, the younger son of the ruling family of Daevabad (the titular city of brass). While he doesn’t get his own POV chapters, Dara is another important character rounding […]
Returning Fairytales to Their Roots – Stories that are NOT for Kids
F*cked Up Fairy Tales by Liz Gotauco
When Liz Gotauco (aka cosbrarian) announced last year that her F*cked Up Fairytales with Liz video series was coming to us in book form, I got very excited. When the arc showed up on NetGalley, I smashed the request button hard. When the e-arc showed up on my kindle, I started to read it very slowly, because in 2025, joy should be savored. F*cked Up Fairytales: Sinful Cinderellas, Prince Alarmings and Other Timeless Classics is everything I hoped it would be. F*cked Up Fairy Tales […]
“Magic Is the First and Last Religion of the World. It Has the Power to Make Us Whole.”
Imajica by Clive Barker
Damn, the effort I have gone to in my search for a book that fits the “I” square! I went through a bit of a horror-reading phase in my early twenties, and Clive Barker was one of the authors I had on rotation. But I never did pick up his fantasy doorstopper Imajica—I think I was just a little too intimidated. But in the age of e-readers, what’s to stop me? Imajica is certainly epic in scope; the story covers the Five Dominions that make […]
I Knew I’d Seen This Movie Before!
The Skin of Dreams by Raymond Queneau
cbr17bingo Play Written in 1944 by French surrealist author Queneau, this is the story of a man, Jacques, who lives in, as the cover blurb says, waking dreams. He seamlessly transitions from chatting with his friends to imagining himself in a certain situation, and then back to everyday life. I was about a quarter of the way through when I realized that I had seen this movie before. And sure enough, in the afterword, the author reveals that he was highly influenced by the James […]
Once Upon a Time in Holy Wood
Eric by Terry Pratchett
Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett
CBR Bingo: Red (Eric) CBR Bingo: Arts (Moving Pictures) I’m continuing my (almost) in-order read of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series with the ninth and tenth books, Eric and Moving Pictures. Eric is the fourth book in the subseries focusing on the Wizards of Unseen University (it’s got some slight references to the events of Sourcery, but it can likely be read without having read that one previously). Moving Pictures is technically a standalone but does feature quite a few reoccurring characters (with Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler, an […]
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