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“It’s a little broken down, sure, but isn’t it worth putting it back together?”

The Shaadi Set-Up by Lillie Vale

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CBR13Bingo: Fauna – the puppers! The adorableness of this cover! This is a tropey and cute book, full of second chance high school sweethearts and a bit of forced proximity, though not everything worked out for me. “There’s something about old things, right? Comforting favorites. A place in time you want to return to, revisit, like an old friend.” Rita and Milan have dated since they were fifteen, and now, after Milan’s first year of college, they’re finally getting to see each other again on […]

Not a Whimsical Portal Fantasy, But a Corporate Retail Portal Fantasy

Finna by Nino Cipri

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Oh, there’s always been something a bit sus about that certain Swedish furniture store, hasn’t there? Just a little? About how once you go in, there’s no telling how long it’ll take you to get back out again. Whether or not it’s a new throw rug or some nice meatballs, there’s always something that keeps on trying to draw you away from the exit It’s this feeling that made me pick Finna first out of all the Hugo-nominated novellas to read, as the premise of […]

“Put a whole fuckn’ bulb of garlic in—or fuckn’ don’t. Whatever Trevor”

Un-cook Yourself: A Ratbag's Rules for Life by Nat's What I Reckon

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I think I’ve made it clear before that I am not someone who is normally drawn to self-help books. I have also mentioned that Audible kind of takes issue with this rather strongly, and insists on throwing suggestions my way. But through either sheer persistence or will, it turns out that one did stick Probably because it is kind of—in part—a piss-take of self-help books anyhow. The other half is a genuine call for you to keep your chin up Champion!—because it is completely normal […]

A gut-punch of a book filled with the stories we rarely hear

The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

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BINGO – REP (BLACKOUT) I feel that is is important at the start of this review to indicate that I am a non-Hispanic white person. Author Karla Cornejo Villavicencio is a recipient of DACA and a journalist (though she eschews that title, more on that later). For The Undocumented Americans Villavicencio set forth to tell the stories of the undocumented immigrants that we don’t often hear about. She purposefully does not write about DREAMers because she “didn’t want to write anything inspirational.” She wanted to […]

What It Means to Survive

The Night the Lights Went Out by Drew Magary

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Read as part of CBR13Bingo: Representation. Drew Magary writes about suffering a traumatic brain injury and adjusting to the ill effects of it that left him non-able bodied.  There are very few books I’d recommend to people across my family/friends spectrum. This is one. Perhaps it is one of one. Drew Magary is one of my favorite writers but it sure as hell didn’t start out that way. At Kissing Suzy Kolber, I found him to be a loud-mouthed bully, the kind of guy who thinks […]



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