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Thank You andtheIToldYouSos, and Happy Holidays!

December 16, 2022 by LittlePlat Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: andtheIToldYouSos, Book Exchange, Book Exchange 2022, Friendship Bracelets!

Genres: Fiction · Tags: andtheIToldYouSos, Book Exchange, Book Exchange 2022, Friendship Bracelets! ·
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new aspirational character alert: mad catlady with speedboat and collection of vintage pornography

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers

August 11, 2022 by andtheIToldYouSos 3 Comments

…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 […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: a psalm for the wild-built, adventures of monk and robot, andtheIToldYouSos, Becky Chambers, being, Body, cannonball recommendation, cbr14bingo, companionship, eco-living, Ethics, friendship, future punk, Love, monk and robot 2, novella, robot, Series, solar punk, The Future is Queer

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR14 Review No:44 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: a psalm for the wild-built, adventures of monk and robot, andtheIToldYouSos, Becky Chambers, being, Body, cannonball recommendation, cbr14bingo, companionship, eco-living, Ethics, friendship, future punk, Love, monk and robot 2, novella, robot, Series, solar punk, The Future is Queer ·
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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

August 7, 2022 by andtheIToldYouSos 1 Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, History, Non-Fiction, Short Stories Tagged With: adaptations, andtheIToldYouSos, cbr14bingo, Dresden Files, E.E. Ottoman, fairytales, film, Jim Butcher, Kate Bernheimer, lgtbqia, P. Djèlí Clark, retellings, rom coms, Samantha Irby, Scott Meslow

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR14 Review No:43 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, History, Non-Fiction, Short Stories · Tags: adaptations, andtheIToldYouSos, cbr14bingo, Dresden Files, E.E. Ottoman, fairytales, film, Jim Butcher, Kate Bernheimer, lgtbqia, P. Djèlí Clark, retellings, rom coms, Samantha Irby, Scott Meslow ·
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The Three S-s: spooky, sad, and a little bit sexy

The Wild Hunt by Emma Seckel

August 2, 2022 by andtheIToldYouSos 7 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Horror, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: andtheIToldYouSos, ARC, bird, bird square, cbr14bingo, Emma Seckel, folklore, Gaelic legend, galley, galley club, grief, loss, mystery, new release, post-war, pub day, scotland, sluagh, superstition, tin house, tin house galley club, WWII

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR14 Review No:37 · Genres: Fiction, History, Horror, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: andtheIToldYouSos, ARC, bird, bird square, cbr14bingo, Emma Seckel, folklore, Gaelic legend, galley, galley club, grief, loss, mystery, new release, post-war, pub day, scotland, sluagh, superstition, tin house, tin house galley club, WWII ·
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Vitality and Mortality

The Everlasting: A Novel by Katy Simpson Smith

July 15, 2022 by ElCicco 1 Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History Tagged With: andtheIToldYouSos, cbr14, cbr14bingo, ElCicco, Fiction, Katy Simpson Smith, rec'd, The Everlasting

ElCicco's CBR14 Review No:23 · Genres: Fiction, History · Tags: andtheIToldYouSos, cbr14, cbr14bingo, ElCicco, Fiction, Katy Simpson Smith, rec'd, The Everlasting ·
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[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

July 5, 2022 by andtheIToldYouSos 2 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Fiction, History, Non-Fiction, Religion Tagged With: 12th century, 15th century, 16th century, 17th Century, andtheIToldYouSos, borgia, Catholicism, cloistered life, Crusades, Dark Ages, eleanor of aquitaine, Elizabeth Lev, England, forbidden love, France, heloise and abelard, hisotry, historical fiction, Italy, James Burge, lauren groff, Love, love letters, Marie de France, medeival europe, Medici, Middle Ages, miramax, monks, my library. audio. ;etters, Myriam Cyr, mysticism, nuns, paris, Philosophy, Portugal, Religion, Renaissance, renaissance europe, Rome, viragoes

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR14 Review No:36 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Fiction, History, Non-Fiction, Religion · Tags: 12th century, 15th century, 16th century, 17th Century, andtheIToldYouSos, borgia, Catholicism, cloistered life, Crusades, Dark Ages, eleanor of aquitaine, Elizabeth Lev, England, forbidden love, France, heloise and abelard, hisotry, historical fiction, Italy, James Burge, lauren groff, Love, love letters, Marie de France, medeival europe, Medici, Middle Ages, miramax, monks, my library. audio. ;etters, Myriam Cyr, mysticism, nuns, paris, Philosophy, Portugal, Religion, Renaissance, renaissance europe, Rome, viragoes ·
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