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The Locals Pronounce it “Mayum-fiss”

Memphis Noir by (Various)

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Read as part of CBR 10 Bingo: Brain Candy I love the Akashic Noir series, having read or browsed through the Baltimore, Detroit, New Orleans and Bronx ones. They provide two things I enjoy: a murder mystery and a tourism read. My dad is a native Memphian and despite the city’s many flaws, I’m partial to it. So it was a no-brainer to pick this one up. As with the rest of the series, some of these are better than others. I was partial to Through Valleys (which had an ending I didn’t expect), Never Never (the first graphic cartoon I recall reading in […]

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8/18/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:9 |

Stories About Technology and Discovery

Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang

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 The e-book version that I got from my library was actually titled Arrival, with the note that it had been previously published as Stories of Your Life, and I got it because I wanted to read the story that the movie Arrival was based on, so I’ll start with that one. It’s titled “Story of Your Life,” and it’s good. I think the movie is better, which I don’t usually think, but I also don’t usually see the movie before reading the book. I don’t want to spoil it for those who haven’t seen it, so all I’ll say is that there are […]

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4/2/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:8 |

40 stories for 40 years.

From a Certain Point of View by Various

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What a fun ode to one of my favorite movies. Seriously, who came up with this idea? It’s great. For the fortieth anniversary of Star Wars (now ponderously titled Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope), forty authors who are Star Wars- or nerd-adjacent take side or peripheral characters from the original film and write short stories from their perspectives. These stories are all told in chronological order, from the death of the captain of the Tantive IV all the way to the awards ceremony at the end of the film where we get POV from one of Leia’s fellow Alderaan survivors. The affect is […]

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12/28/2017 's CBR9 Review No:113 |

Apparently Santa leaves the ass-kicking to his wife

Mrs. Claus: Not the Fairy Tale They Say by Rhonda Parrish

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So, this is the second time I’ve received an ARC and am reading and posting my review after the publication date.  Oops.  To be fair, I kept looking for this one in my email, but I somehow missed it.  But then I found it, so here we go! Mrs. Claus: Not the Fairy Tale They Say is an anthology of short stories all about Mrs. Claus.  So, perfect for the holiday season!  Rhonda Parrish was inspired by an ad she saw about a non-traditional Mrs. Claus, one other than the kindly old lady who bakes cookies and helps around the […]

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12/10/2017 's CBR9 Review No:24 |

Myth, history and culture collide

China Girl: And Other Stories by Ho Lin

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Ho Lin’s short story anthology was an interesting read. Each tale aimed to shed light on random moments from varying points of view. He pulls in the reader with unexpected juxtapositions of settings and tone. The collection exudes emotion as if the stories were collective memories meshed together. He rarely delves deep into any specific narratives. The stories bounced between Asia and American even within the same story. We meet an American ex-Pat in China, then a host of characters in San Francisco, while another traveling on a subway in Hong Kong. These characters muse on how they’ve ended up […]

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11/10/2017 's CBR9 Review No:5 |

An Earworm of an Anthology

When You're Strange by Sarah Vestal and Danne Boyd, Editors

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When You’re Strange edited by Sarah Vestal and Danne Boyd (2017) – I’m not sure what’s going on with the cover, but the stories in this themed anthology dramatically bring out the differences and similarities in all of us.  Whether you’re an Alice tasked with tracking escapees in the real world, a young collector of souls who foolishly believes wars will be over soon, a young water witch marrying a fire warlock, or a trio of friends trapped in a video game, this collection of stories shows how there are different levels of strangeness, but all of them are intriguing […]

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11/9/2017 's CBR9 Review No:40 |

Pick Your Poison!

Pick Your Poison - A Short Story Anthology by Emma Nelson and Hannah Smith, Editors

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Pick Your Poison – A Short Story Anthology edited by Emma Nelson and Hannah Smith (2017) – Just in time for Halloween comes a short story collection with a clever theme: toxins.  Whether venomous snakes, raw almonds, quiet magic, or death by any of the other twenty-five poisonous tales in this collection, there’s a fitting demise for everyone. As with most anthologies I review, I’ll pick out several of the sterling tales that caught my squeamish attention.   But all the stories are clever, well-written, and very satisfying. “Beautiful Shadows” by Colleen Quinn – I felt as if I’d read a […]

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10/30/2017 's CBR9 Review No:38 |

Seven novellas, all are good, two are excellent.

Seven Stones to Stand or Fall by Diana Gabaldon

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Seven Stones to Stand or Fall is a 500ish page collection of (mostly) novellas set in Gabaldon’s Outlander universe. All but two of the novellas were previously published in short story anthologies. The remaining two are new. I do not recommend picking up this collection if you aren’t already a fan of the books. Most of the stories would be entertaining enough to read, but you’re not going to get optimal enjoyment out of them without the context of the main series (or the Lord John books, which you should also read, because Lord John is the best). Here is a […]

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9/12/2017 's CBR9 Review No:75 |


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