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“Walking along a blade’s edge was only fun until the blade stopped being a metaphor.”

An Enchantment of Ravens by Margaret Rogerson

November 9, 2022 by Malin Leave a Comment

CBR14 Bingo: Bird (bird in the title, bird on the cover, love interest turns into a bird, there are so many birds in this story) Isobel lives in a little town where it’s always summer. This is because her town is just on the border of the Faerie lands, and most of the people who live there are valued by the Fair folk because of their Craft (anything that basically involves creating something, be it building, sewing, baking, cooking, or painting), acts that the Fey […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Romance, Young Adult Tagged With: #fantasy, An Enchantment of Ravens, art, bird, cbr14, cbr14bingo, faeries, magic, Malin, Margaret Rogerson, Romance, shapeshifters

Malin's CBR14 Review No:39 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Romance, Young Adult · Tags: #fantasy, An Enchantment of Ravens, art, bird, cbr14, cbr14bingo, faeries, magic, Malin, Margaret Rogerson, Romance, shapeshifters ·
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A Swoony Series Ender

Her Unexpected Roommate by Jackie Lau

October 18, 2022 by faintingviolet 1 Comment

I have arrived at the final Cider Bar Sisters book by Jackie Lau. This is Rose’s story, and we’ve been introduced to Rose and her depression in bits and pieces over the previous books, but I think it’s important to note that Her Unexpected Roommate opens with an author’s note where Jackie Lau lays out what her reasons are for writing a lead like Rose and exactly the sorts of struggles the reader is going to experience via her characters (specifically treatment-resistant depression, and trauma […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: a little romance, ARC, bird, cbr14bingo, Cider Bar Sisters, fat representation, Her Unexpected Roommate, Jackie Lau, mental health rep

faintingviolet's CBR14 Review No:62 · Genres: Romance · Tags: a little romance, ARC, bird, cbr14bingo, Cider Bar Sisters, fat representation, Her Unexpected Roommate, Jackie Lau, mental health rep ·
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Much said beautifully but too much left unsaid

The Maker of Swans: A Novel by Paraic O’Donnell

August 16, 2022 by ElCicco 3 Comments

Cbr14bingo bird On the face of it, this novel has a lot going for it: murder, a secret society, an English manor, a man servant who has seen it all. And yet the book was quite frustrating to read. On one hand, the prose is exquisite and the premise of the plot arresting. On the other hand, O’Donnell teases the reader without providing a satisfying payoff in the end. I didn’t want to put it down, but ultimately, I felt sort of cheated. The novel […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: bird, cbr14, cbr14bingo, ElCicco, Fiction, Paraic O'Donnell, The Maker of Swans

ElCicco's CBR14 Review No:35 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: bird, cbr14, cbr14bingo, ElCicco, Fiction, Paraic O'Donnell, The Maker of Swans ·
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Poetry Books

How to Read a Poem by Terry Eagleton

Lords of Limit by Geoffrey Hill

The Sounds of Poetry: A Brief Guide by Robert Pinsky

The Trouble with Poetry by Billy Collins

Selected Poems of WB Yeats by WB Yeats

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

New Hampshire by Robert Frost

Emily Dickinson by Poems and Letters

Gilgamesh by Ed. Stephen Mitchell

Leaves of Grass 1855 by Walt Whitman

August 3, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

CBR14Bingo – Mind – This book addresses the “heart” elements of poetry with a literary critical mind approach. How to Read a Poem – 5/5 Stars This is a book that I really enjoyed but even Terry Eagleton admits that it’s not much help to anyone who hasn’t read a decent amount of literary criticism, especially for the first half of the book. It’s rare for an author to suggest that maybe for some readers, starting at chapter 5 (out of 7) would yield the […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction, Poetry Tagged With: billy collins, bird, cbr14bingo, cozy, Ed. Stephen Mitchell, Funky, Geoffrey Hill, mind, Poems and Letters, Robert Frost, Robert Pinsky, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Series, Terry Eagleton, Time, Walt Whitman, WB Yeats

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:419 · Genres: Non-Fiction, Poetry · Tags: billy collins, bird, cbr14bingo, cozy, Ed. Stephen Mitchell, Funky, Geoffrey Hill, mind, Poems and Letters, Robert Frost, Robert Pinsky, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Series, Terry Eagleton, Time, Walt Whitman, WB Yeats ·
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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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