Dear Reading Community, Today we gather to celebrate the week we know as Banned and Challenged Week. Not that we are for it, but because we are against it. And I would like to share a new poster I have found that features a book that is banned. Please read carefully why it has been. Thank … [Read more]
Before the Tiger King there was Frederic Brremaud
Love V01 The Tiger, by Frederic Brremaud
Due to wordless format of Love V01 The Tiger, this review might contain spoilers: The gorgeous illustrations that unfortunately (fortunately?) shows nature at nature's best, by Federico Bertolucci, are the focus of the story as this is (as said) wordless. The reader follows a Tiger as it roams … [Read more]
's CBR14 Review No:491 ·
Genres: Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Non-Fiction ·
Tags: animals, art, Frederic Brremaud, nature, wordless ·
“The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future.”
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Do you find yourself regularly frustrated by people's irrational conduct? Are you sometimes frustrated by your own irrational conduct? Why do people so often make decisions that are so painfully obviously wrong, or at least inconsistent with their supposed values or goals? Nobel Laureate Daniel … [Read more]
This book kicked me in the stomach, clubbed me over the head and said, “The end!”
The Storm of Echoes: The Mirror Visitor Book 4 by Christelle Dabos
Cbr14bingo Heart — this book broke my heart and I’m angry Writing a review for this fourth and final installment in Christelle Dabos’ The Mirror Visitor series is going to be tough for a few reasons. All the story lines that have been set up in the previous books have to be resolved here and I’m … [Read more]
's CBR14 Review No:41 ·
Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult ·
Tags: #fantasy, cbr14, cbr14bingo, Christelle Dabos, ElCicco, Fiction, heart, The Mirror Visitor Book 4, The Storm of Echoes, YA ·
Shorts
The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen
The Great Glorious Goddamn of it All by Josh Ritter
Summerwater by Sarah Moss
The Refugees - 4/5 Stars This short fiction collection from Viet Thanh Nguyen follows up his debut novel The Sympathizer but is not that much like that novel. Both books are good, but like a lot of follow up fiction collections after a successful first novel, these represent a longer writing period … [Read more]
“Spite was honor when it was the only weapon you had against someone more powerful” – BINGO!
The Queer Principles of Kit Webb by Cat Sebastian
4.5 stars CBR14: Rec'd (this has been recommended by multiple Cannonballers and pretty much every romance review blog I can think of) Edward Percival "Percy" Talbot, Lord Holland, returns to England after several years abroad in Europe to discover that his mother died in his absence, and his … [Read more]
's CBR14 Review No:22 ·
Genres: Fiction, History, Mystery, Romance ·
Tags: Cat Sebastian, cbr14, cbr14bingo, Georgian, highwaymen, historical romance, LGBTQIA, Malin, rec'd, The Queer Principles of Kit Webb ·