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“Because that’s how life tends to work in all its aspects. We try things out, and make mistakes, and recover, and learn from our experiences.”

Band Sinister by KJ Charles

November 4, 2025 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

Band Sinister is what happens when an author writes their own version of Georgette Heyer book by throwing absolutely every socially progressive character type into a friend group and then letting them loose on the very suspecting neighbors. I’ve read exactly one Heyer book, Venetia, back in 2016. Initially this read didn’t jump out to me as especially heavy on the Heyer, but more in line with other queer Regency historical romances I’ve read over the years from Cat Sebastian or Olivia Waite, but the parallels are there.   The story here plays with the classic tropes that Heyer […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: B, band sinister, cbr17bingo, historical romance, KJ Charles, queer romance, read harder challenge, Regency

faintingviolet's CBR17 Review No:49 · Genres: Romance · Tags: B, band sinister, cbr17bingo, historical romance, KJ Charles, queer romance, read harder challenge, Regency ·
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The Word ‘Turbulent’ Is Bearing a Lot of Weight Here

Bomb Season in Jakarta: A personal account of a turbulent period in Australian diplomacy by Grant Dooley

September 28, 2025 by LittlePlat Leave a Comment

This is yet another book I’ve discovered via listening to ABC’s Conversations.  The subtitle of Bomb Season in Jakarta is A personal account of a turbulent period in Australian diplomacy, and Grant Dooley is not kidding when he writes this. Back in 2004, Dooley and his family had moved to Indonesia to start a three year stint working at the Australian Embassy in Jakarta. This was a few years after the 1999 East Timorese crisis and only two years after the 2002 Bali Bombings, Indonesia’s […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir Tagged With: #memoir, B, cbr17bingo, DFAT, diplomacy, Grant Dooley, Indonesia, politics, terrorism

LittlePlat's CBR17 Review No:25 · Genres: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir · Tags: #memoir, B, cbr17bingo, DFAT, diplomacy, Grant Dooley, Indonesia, politics, terrorism ·
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