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Extraordinary Mathmatics

What It Means When a Man Falls From the Sky: Stories by Lesley Nneki Arimah

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If you aren’t listening to the Levar Burton Reads podcast, you are denying yourself so much joy and comfort. Following the advice of Keh_squared on Twitter, I listened to episode 5 of Levar Burton Reads. Lavar Burton read Lesley Nneka Arimah’s award winning short story “What It Means When a Man Falls From The Sky.” And then I listened again, and again for a third time. I found a PDF of the short story and read it. It might be one of my favorite books this year. At some time in the future, the geography of the world has changed. […]

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10/13/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:98 |

Spring and Summer Reads: Horror and Autobiography

The Men in My Life: A Memoir of Love and Art in 1950s Manhattan by Patricia Bosworth

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I have been so busy the past few months with my own book and now assorted hurricanes, that I didn’t have a chance to post reviews of all of the books I have been reading. The first bunch is a combination of horror and autobiography, which pretty much sums up my interests of late. Anyone have a good horror autobiography to recommend? In the meantime, here are a few titles from my recent reading list: The Men in My Life: A Memoir of Love and Art in 1950s Manhattan – Patricia Bosworth This is a fascinating glimpse into a woman’s […]

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9/15/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:9 |

Seven novellas, all are good, two are excellent.

Seven Stones to Stand or Fall by Diana Gabaldon

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Seven Stones to Stand or Fall is a 500ish page collection of (mostly) novellas set in Gabaldon’s Outlander universe. All but two of the novellas were previously published in short story anthologies. The remaining two are new. I do not recommend picking up this collection if you aren’t already a fan of the books. Most of the stories would be entertaining enough to read, but you’re not going to get optimal enjoyment out of them without the context of the main series (or the Lord John books, which you should also read, because Lord John is the best). Here is a […]

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9/12/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:75 |

Oldies But Goodies

The Weiser Book of The Fantastic and Forgotten by Judika Illes

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The Fantastic and Forgotten, edited by Judika Illes (2016) – Usually when I review anthologies, I summarize individual stories and give an overall judgement, but this anthology is such a unique concept, I must discuss the entire anthology as a whole. First of all, I’d never heard of Weiser Books who published this anthology.  They publish occult, esoteric, speculative, and New Age works.  This collection, however, publishes stories of forgotten authors from the 1800s, mostly English, and includes such surprising (and not forgotten) authors such as Bram Stoker (yes, that Bram Stoker), Oscar Wilde, H.P. Lovecraft, Mrs. Lovecraft (who knew […]

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8/5/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:30 |

“I am afraid for your priorities, son”

Jackalope Wives and other Stories by T. Kingfisher

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Jackalope Wives and Other Stories is another short story collection by T. Kingfisher and I loved it. I’ve read a couple of these stories previously, when they were first published, but I love that they’re all collected in one place. I especially that that because while the collection only contains two completely new stories, most of them were new to me. Kingfisher brings her usual sensibility and love of practical characters and talking animal companions to this collection. If you like her work then this is a collection worth picking up. I also really like the approach that Kinfisher takes […]

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7/21/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:64 |

Short and Sweet

Alien Dimensions #9 by Neil A. Hogan

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Alien Dimensions #9, edited by Neil A. Hogan (2017) – This anthology is short and sweet.  At barely 76 pages, it covers a broad range of clever science fiction short stories.  Whether you’re into sentient forests or the real extraterrestrial reason behind having an orange ape in the White House, this collection might be for you. “Wandering Woods” by Gustavo Bondoni – Intriguing tale of a planet completely overrun by electronic trash and the sole sentient forest that asks for terraforming help before it’s too late.  Fighting arsenic and mercury, the ancient trees are strangely complacent, sure the humans will […]

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7/18/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:25 |

The Best of and the other of Connie Willis

The Best of Connie Willis by Connie Willis

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The Best of Connie Willis The premise of this book, which is a little contrived and arbitrary–an idea that even Connie Willis discusses in the intro–, is these are all the award-winning stories Connie Willis wrote over the years. The issue of course is that these traverse many years, many time periods, many themes, and don’t necessarily have a lot in common. And at their worst, we sometimes get somewhat retreaded material from different parts of her life. A Letter from the Clearys In this story, we have an after the apocalypse story where a young girl slowly revealing information […]

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7/11/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:273 |

Margaret Atwood and a little Annie Proulx

After the Apocalypse by Maureen McHugh

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If you haven’t read China Mountain Zhang you should check it out. That’s not a ringing endorsement per se. I liked it a lot, but it’s strange and uncomfortable, but completely original and something altogether else. Same goes with this book. It delivers on its title. This is a collection of stories that take place after various and diverse kinds of apocalypse that could befall us, from the overreach of technology and medical fields, to zombies, to disease, to economic collapse and so on. In each of these stories, it’s not the actual downfall that gets you so much as the […]

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6/26/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:257 |


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