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Join Our Spoiler-Welcome Discussion of T. Kingfisher’s Books  

I liked this weird little gremlin book.

The Pallbearers Club by Paul Tremblay

February 9, 2023 by narfna Leave a Comment

To be clear, the book isn’t about gremlins, I’m just calling it a gremlin book because it’s weird and small and has claws but is also kind of harmless and laughable in the right light. Also also, gremlin is a fun word to use. This book is impossible to *really* talk about without spoilers, so I’m going to have a pretty big spoiler section and a smaller non-spoiler section in this review. I will try to keep the spoiler section relatively spoiler-free in the sense […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: annotations, fake memoir, horror, literary fiction, literary horror, metafiction, narfna, Paul Tremblay, The Pallbearers Club, weird fiction

narfna's CBR15 Review No:22 · Genres: Fiction, Horror, Speculative Fiction · Tags: annotations, fake memoir, horror, literary fiction, literary horror, metafiction, narfna, Paul Tremblay, The Pallbearers Club, weird fiction ·
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The Hamiltome.

August 23, 2016 by narfna Leave a Comment

This is an excellent book that all fans of Hamilton should read. Reading it gave me a fuller experience of the musical, it was fun to see behind the scenes stories, and Lin’s notes were always interesting. I cried while reading it (the same part I cry at while listening), and spent about a week listening to nothing but the soundtrack on a loop. So why no five stars? Like Aaron Burr, I want more. I’m never going to see the musical in person, or […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: annotations, behind the scenes, broadway, hamilton, hamilton: an american musical, hamilton: the revolution, jermy mccarter, Lin-Manuel Miranda, musicals, narfna, Non-Fiction, the hamiltome

narfna's CBR8 Review No:117 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: annotations, behind the scenes, broadway, hamilton, hamilton: an american musical, hamilton: the revolution, jermy mccarter, Lin-Manuel Miranda, musicals, narfna, Non-Fiction, the hamiltome ·
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