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Episode 1-46: If Someone Calls You Fat, Eat Them

Private Princess, Bill the Galactic Hero On the Planet of Bottled Brains, Elevation, The Surgeon's Mate by James Patterson, Harry Harrison, Stephen King, Patrick O'Brian

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Episode 1-46: If Someone Calls You Fat, Eat Them Wherein I review: 145. Private Princess (Private #14) by James Patterson 146. Bill the Galactic Hero On The Planet of Bottled Brains (Bill the Galactic Hero #3) by Harry Harrison 147. Elevation by Stephen King 148. The Surgeon’s Mate (Aubrey & Maturin #7) by Patrick O’Brian London Private is my least favorite of the private parts.  Bill the Galactic Hero keeps punning horribly like an issue of Cracked before they became actual internet journalists.  Stephen King keeps on busting out Castle Rock novellas, and I’m alright with that — this one’s almost […]

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12/17/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:178 |

I Did It

Saga, Vol. 1 by Brian K Vaughan and Fiona Staples

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I really can’t believe I’m reviewing my 52nd book of 2018, because I never thought I’d get here. 2018 was a slog, y’all. The funny thing is, I thought it was because I hadn’t read that many great books this year, but that wasn’t true at all–I could barely find a one least favorite for the CBR wrapup post because I had enjoyed almost everything I read. I just couldn’t get into writing the reviews this year. Luckily, I am extremely competitive with myself, and since I cannonballed the past 2 years there was no way I was going to […]

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12/16/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:52 |

Heckin’ Yes – The Power

The Power by Naomi Alderman

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Post-apocalyptic fiction is my my favorite genre. I am also on a kick of reading rocking female authors. Also, I love Margaret Atwood, and she mentored Alderman and has mentioned this book as one to read. Soooo, post-apocalyptic fiction with Margaret Atwood’s seal of approval should be a slam dunk for my tastes, and oh, it certainly was. In Alderman’s world, “the power” is a muscle across the collarbone of young women that allows them to send out electric shocks to animal, vegetable, or mineral. And it is a power only wielded by women. I KNOW RIGHT?! Things get real, […]

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12/14/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:46 |

Episode 1-45: Backstabber, Hope Grabber, Greedy Little Fit Haver

The Devil's Colony, The Fortune of War, Bill the Galactic Hero and the Planet of the Robot Slaves, The Witch Elm by Bill Schweigart, Patrick O'Brian, Harry Harrison, Tana French

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Episode 1-45: Backstabber, Hope Grabber, Greedy Little Fit Haver Wherein I review: 171. The Devil’s Colony (Fatal Folklore Trilogy #3) by Bill Schweigart 172. The Fortune of War (Aubrey & Maturin #6) by Patrick O’Brian 173. Bill, the Galactic Hero and The Planet of the Robot Slaves (Bill the Galactic Hero #2) by Harry Harrison 174. The Witch Elm by Tana French Anyone in America right now can tell you what’s scarier than monsters out of myth is actually creepy ass Nazis.  Speaking of America, that’s where the action moves in the Aubrey & Maturin series.  Harry Harrison gets all kinds […]

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12/12/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:174 |

Less lust, more explanations, please

The Arrivals by Melissa Marr

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This was more cheesy romance than I expected in my sci-fi western, but it ended up being pretty enjoyable. A group of people from various time periods in the “real” world have woken up randomly in the Wasteland. The Wasteland is full of monsters and not-quite-humans and some creatures sort of like vampires, and one bad dude named Ajani, who is trying to take over. The Arrivals (the folks from our world) don’t know why they’re there or how they got there, but over the years, they’ve banded together, live in the desert in a cowboy camp, and fight Ajani […]

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12/11/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:26 |

Vampire, PI

Already Dead by Charlie Huston

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I read almost all of Charlie Huston’s catalogue between 2011-2012. I loved the Hank Thompson trilogy and The Shotgun Rule was good as well. I don’t often enjoy fun, trashy Tarantino-esque thrill writers but Huston has more talent than most. I couldn’t put his books down. The ending of the Hank Thompson trilogy stays with me to this day. However, I avoided the Joe Pitt series series for a long time because I don’t like those kinds of monster crossover works. I tried one Jim Butcher book and while it was fine, I didn’t feel compelled to return to the rest of the […]

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12/10/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:55 |

I am now a Tade Thompson fanboy

Rosewater by Tade Thompson

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The Kinokuniya bookstore above Shinjuku Station in Tokyo has become one of my favorite stores for its excellent selection of English-language books. They have a really good sci-fi/fantasy section, and on a recent visit, they had a whole rack dedicated to recent award winners where I noticed the winner of a new award for African speculative fiction — the Nommo Award — and was intrigued enough to buy a copy.  And let me just say that if there’s a better science fiction book this year than Tade Thompson’s Rosewater, then I want to read it, because this book was freaking […]

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12/8/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:65 |

By the Stars We Hope

Record of a Spaceborn Few (Wayfarers 3) by Becky Chambers

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Earlier this year narfna posted her review of Record of a Spaceborn Few and in the comments she assured me that even less happens in this third installment of the Wayfarers series. I was delighted. It is generally acknowledged that science fiction takes our current major concerns and conflicts and sets them in the future, usually a more scientifically advanced future. Becky Chambers tweaks that a bit by having her characters preoccupied with the same minutia that preoccupies us all – our relationships, our work, our families, our place in our community, what is our purpose and what is the point? […]

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12/7/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:53 |


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