Everybody Knows by Jordan Harper
Jordan Harper is a writer I've been hearing a lot of positive things about lately, mostly from podcasters. Harper has written for TV in addition to his novels and it seems he has a lot of friends and fans in the industry. His latest novel, A Violent Masterpiece, came out earlier this year to great … [Read more]
Demon Copperhead: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver
Cbr18bingo Repair: novel deals with drug addiction and rehab, broken individuals and a broken community I had a hard time choosing which bingo square to use for this one, so many could apply. Left — because so many characters and their community have been left behind. Refuge — characters take … [Read more]
A Short Stay in Hell by Stephen L. Peck
System Collapse (Murderbot #7) by Martha Wells
Tough Guy (Game Changers #4) by Rachel Reid
Flesh by David Szalay
The Heir Affair by Heather Cocks & Jessica Morgan
Last One Out by Jane Harper
Here’s what I read while I was camping in France. It was very hot. I may have melted a few times. It was way too hot for complicated stuff, so for unrelated reasons: here’s a picture of a hotel that’s for sale in the charming, medieval town of Brancion in the Bourgogne for anyone contemplating a … [Read more]
Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke
We meet bright, but cold Natalie Heller as she goes off to Harvard. Instead of experiencing the world, making friends and learning, the experience shows her that what she knows is "right" and that the world is wicked. She meets a man, a man who's family is wealthy and heavily connected to politics … [Read more]
Copenhagen by Michael Frayn
CBR Bingo: Success, because a lot of the back and forth in this is about Heisenberg defending his successes in the German nuclear program versus Bohr's more success-y success with The Manhattan Project. SO the story here: I've been wanting to see this play performed live for, oh, 10-15 years? I … [Read more]
Daggerbound by T. Kingfisher
CBR Bingo "left" because the Dervish (Dervish? he sometimes is The Dervish and sometimes just Dervish, it's hard to tell) has been left behind, without his mercenary party, and will keep being so given the whole immortal being hanging out with human meat Having not … [Read more]
