The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic by Leigh Bardugo
Absolutely fantastic. This was so good I didn't want it to end. Bardugo does an excellent job with the stories and Kipin's illustrations evokes the fairy tale setting and characters so well. I may just buy this in hardback for the illustrations alone. These stories are a great blend of retellings as … [Read more]
Welcome to the Week 11 CBR 14 Bingo Check-in! You can see the card and the rules on the kick-off post. This week’s mood: Steve Buscemi. I just found out gifs are cringe. So here you go, your weekly gif. Please check your tags and make sure you are using cbr14bingo. Ale – 6 … [Read more]
The Eloquent Scribe: The Sitehuti and Nefer-Djenou-Bastet Series Book 1 by T. Lee Harris
Cbr14bingo Font The main character is an Egyptian scribe turned investigator The Eloquent Scribe is the first book in a mystery series set in ancient Egypt and features a pair of unlikely investigators — Sitehuti the junior scribe and Nefer-Djenou-Bastet (aka Neffi), the sacred cat of the Temple … [Read more]
The Idiot by Elif Batuman
Either / Or by Elif Batuman
CBR Bingo - two books, one square (and a Bingo!) - adapt, because that's what we're all trying to do in college I read The Idiot and Either/Or back to back, so it felt more like a single, longer volume than reading two separate books. Based on Goodreads reviews, some felt that the tone in the … [Read more]
Mother of Sharks by Melissa Cristina Marquez
I was lucky and recently had Mother of Sharks by Melissa Cristina Marquez fall into my lap (well, in my hands). Not due until late May/early June 2023, Marquez’s story is one we all need to know as it is not just about a woman, or a woman of color, or about science, or the ocean. It is all of that … [Read more]
Batman and Robin and Howard by Jeffrey Brown
One reviewer from Goodreads said Batman and Robin and Howard was (to be more polite) less than intelligent, and while I will not disagree, I think they missed the point. This is an over the top, fun, story about being the new kid vs. the before kid at school. The story of two people who do not click … [Read more]
