Oh my God, I love it! Thank you andtheIToldYouSos! I know I am a bit of a pain when it comes to the book exchange because I don’t really leave much detail as to what to get me—decisions are hard! But I love everything here from the two new authors that I have never read before, the extraterrestrial-themed cards and mask, the Spice Girls card(!) And the friendship bracelets! (And they did they put me in mind of a certain someone, was that deliberate?) I […]
new aspirational character alert: mad catlady with speedboat and collection of vintage pornography
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers
…and yes, she drives that boat too fast and befriends a robot! What else could I need? Once again, I am utterly in love with the newest Becky Chambers. A Prayer for the Crown-Shy, a much awaited sequel to A Psalm for the Wild-Built, was calling my name from the second that I finished the first entry. I always need to point this out, but if this isn’t the place to do then what is; I would not have found myself in the cozy companionship […]
the great 2022 Bingo Catch-Up!
Fool Moon by Jim Butcher
Wow, No Thank You by Samantha Irby
A Dead Djinn in Cairo by P. Djeli Clark
From Hollywood, With Love by Scott Meslow
The Companion by E.E. Ottoman
My Mother, She Killed Me, My Father, He Ate Me by Kate Bernheimer
It wouldn’t be CBR Bingo without me frantically catching up on everything I read but was too distracted to write about, now would it? Square: Cold – Fool Moon – DNF This is it, folks- my first DNF in YEARS! I just couldn’t do it. I started this book way back in JANUARY, and despite multiple formats and multiple tries, I just can’t do it. I know there’s a mythical “it gets better” carrot hanging out past the fourth entry, but I just don’t have […]
The Three S-s: spooky, sad, and a little bit sexy
The Wild Hunt by Emma Seckel
Honestly, what else could you need? If you are our Heroine Leigh Wells, you need quite a bit. You’ve been called back to your ancestral island home, far flung from the wild shores of Scotland. World War Two did not hit your home directly, but it stole many young men and sent very few back home. The few that returned are not who they once were. The island is not what it once was. The Sluagh (sloo-ah) still return every October, but every year they […]
Vitality and Mortality
The Everlasting: A Novel by Katy Simpson Smith
Cbr14bingo Rec’d The description of this novel was irresistible for me — historical fiction that spans four very different time periods, linked by their location (Rome) and an object in common. It reminded me of Geraldine Brooks’ People of the Book, which I read and loved a long time ago. This novel is extraordinarily clever and well written but for some reason, most likely related to my own mental state these days, I had a hard time getting into it and I’m pretty sure I […]
[got me] to a nunnery!
Matrix by Lauren Groff
Heloise & Abelard: A New Biography by James Burge
The Tigress of Forlì: Renaissance Italy's Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza de Medici by Elizabeth Lev
Letters of a Portuguese Nun: Uncovering the Mystery Behind a 17th Century Forbidden Love by Myriam Cyr
I thought I was going to need some time to recover from the exquisite The Everlasting, but really it flung me head-first into a literal rabbit-hole. A warren. An abbey. A nunnery, if you will. Also- The Atlantic just posted a list of books that were done dirty by pandemic releases, and OF COURE The Everlasting resides within those vaulted halls. I was immediately drawn to Caterina Riario Sforza de Medici after she was mentioned several times in The Everlasting. A distant relative of her spots her likeness in the […]
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