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Braineater Jones by Stephen Kozeniewski

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Braineater Jones (as he calls himself), has a problem. He woke up dead in a swimming pool and he has no idea who he was before he was undead. He also doesn’t know why he’s undead and why there are a whole bunch of undead people around these days…these are just some of the many mysteries that our self-described private dick has to tackle. Taking place in the 1930’s this is a fun little play on a noir novel as Jones deals with the “dames”, […]

Vampires are the new supernatural threat for superheroines, Aveda and Evie – CBR14 Bingo: Series

Hollywood Heroine: Heroine Complex #5 by Sarah Kuhn

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CBR14Bingo “Series” –Hollywood Heroine is the fifth book in the Heroine Complex series. Hollywood Heroines finds Aveda Jupiter and Evie Tanaka heading to Los Angeles to visit the set of a pilot being filmed about their adventures.  A while back they agreed to sell the rights to their story but hadn’t paid much attention to the development until the studio, Pinnacle Pictures, reached out about the visit.  Aveda is still stressed from the ghost incident in the previous book, Haunted Heroine.  She isn’t comfortable with change […]

“Elwood received the best gift of his life on Christmas Day 1962, even if the ideas it put in his head were his undoing.”

The Nickel Boys: A Novel by Colson Whitehead

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Cbr12bingo Cannonballer Says, BINGO x2: vertical Red to Money, horizontal Cannonballer Says to Adaptation For the second year in a row, my Cannonballer Says square is filled with a book reviewed by TeresaElectro! Last year it was Rebecca Roanhorse’s excellent Trail of Lightning. This year it’s Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize winning The Nickel Boys. Four years ago I reviewed Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad, which was an amazing tour de force dealing with American history and American racism. The Nickel Boys is another clear-eyed, no-punches-held look […]

The Titles Aren’t Subtle, but the Books are Substantial

Stillhouse Lake (Book 1) by Rachel Caine

Killman Creek (Stillhouse Lake series book 2) by Rachel Caine

Wolfhunter River by Rachel Caine

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Gina Royal didn’t know she was married to a monster. Her whole life changed  as she pulls up to her home where there’s been an accident. A drunk driver crashes   into her husband’s garage turned “workspace” revealing that what Melvin Royal was actually working on in that garage was becoming a prolific serial killer.  At first, the police don’t believe that Gina had no knowledge of what her husband had been doing so for two years, she lost her children and was embroiled in a […]

Like a Sports Movie, In Reverse

The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach

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Football is the quintessential American sport. Two disciplined armies meet out on an open field. Highly trained men in uniform wallop the enemy, denying them ground. Our super soldiers bash their brains in—and sometimes break their necks—for our entertainment. And we cheer. Because who doesn’t love a proxy war? It’s tribal. Downright primal. Are you entertained?! *checks notes* Pardon. Apparently, baseball is America’s game. A sport that considers the no-hitter, a game in which absolutely nothing happens, as the pinnacle of the art. A sport […]

So much awesomeness! Tusen, tusen takk, Mathilde!

This One Summer, Jane Steele by Mariko and Jillian Tamaki, Lyndsay Faye

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So I came home from a long day at work yesterday to find a pick-up slip in the postbox, but as the weather is both very humid and rather cold at the moment, there is a thin film of ice coating the ground, making it pretty much lethal to walk anywhere at all. Hence, once I was actually indoors, I had no plans of leaving again, even with the enticement of books waiting for me at the post office. Today, I put my trusty crampons […]



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