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I Know Why Manholes Covers Are Circles

A Walk Around the Block: Stoplight Secrets, Mischievous Squirrels, Manhole Mysteries & Other Stuff You See Every Day (And Know Nothing About) by Spike Carlsen

October 29, 2022 by Halbs 1 Comment

My interest in neighborhood walks started when I was a teenager and I read Brenda Ueland’s If You Want to Write. In it, she writes about the value that regular walking does for creative folks. I took to walking based on that. As a young adult, the habit fell off a bit in favor of gym time and other … [Read more]

Halbs's CBR14 Review No:34 · Genres: Audiobooks, Health, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: Cities, Neighborhoods, Public Works, Spike Carlsen ·
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“The frontier regulars did the job.”

Fort Davis by Robert Wooster

October 29, 2022 by Halbs Leave a Comment

Last month, my family made our first pilgrimage to West Texas. We stayed at the idyllic Fort Davis State Park, spent some time in Alpine and Marfa, and attended a Star Party at the McDonald Observatory. Quite the weekend! It may not surprise you at all to find out that Fort Davis is named after … [Read more]

Halbs's CBR14 Review No:33 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: Confederate States of America, Robert Wooster, Texas, U.S. history ·
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Vinh not being sure of something was kind of like concrete turning into Jell-O.

Ex Appeal by Cathy Yardley

October 28, 2022 by Emmalita Leave a Comment

Ex Appeal is the much anticipated (by me) third instalment of the Ponto Beach Reunion series.  In the first two books, Love, Comment, Subscribe and Gouda Friends, we've seen Vinh Doan and Emily MacDonald in the background. They were high school sweethearts who went off to college together and then … [Read more]

Emmalita's CBR14 Review No:116 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: advance reader copy, Cathy Yardley, Ex Appeal, NetGalley ·
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Oh, and I forgot to mention that this book takes place in a world with a cultural assumption of bi- and pan-sexuality, and people who aren’t are considered “gender exclusive”!

Winter's Orbit by Everina Maxwell

October 28, 2022 by narfna 3 Comments

This is going to be a short review. I read this too long ago, and have forgotten too much of it. I did like it, though! Quite a bit. I just wish I had gone into it with the correct expectations. Somehow, I'd gotten it into my head that this was a romance with some science fiction in it, rather … [Read more]

narfna's CBR14 Review No:167 · Genres: Romance, Science Fiction · Tags: #Science Fiction, a society without compulsive heterosexuality, Everina Maxwell, LGBTQIA, m-m, sci fi romance, sci-fi, sff, space opera, Winter's Orbit ·
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Take Me. I Am a Scientist. I Also Lift Things

The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi

October 28, 2022 by LittlePlat Leave a Comment

This book was a bit of lighthearted fun. It was also a novel with fingerprints of the pandemic all over it. Like many others, Jamie Bell’s life was turned upside down by Covid-19. Dropped from their position as a marketing executive by a local start up, they finds themselves working as a delivery … [Read more]

LittlePlat's CBR14 Review No:27 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: cbr14bingo, Covid-19, destination for my next scientific conference please?, escapism, john scalzi, Kaiju, Monster ·
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A Fine Juggling Act With Nary a Dropped Ball in Sight.

Winter's Orbit by Everina Maxwell

October 28, 2022 by LittlePlat 5 Comments

I am really, really shocked at how much I liked this one! I think I have mentioned previously that I am not exactly one of the most broad readers of the romance genre, and I am not a super huge fan of the more contrived plots the genre follows. But here I am, writing up a review on a book that who’s … [Read more]

LittlePlat's CBR14 Review No:26 · Genres: Romance, Science Fiction · Tags: #Science Fiction, cbr14bingo, Everina Maxwell, heart, politics, Romance, space opera, Trope overloaded! ·
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