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Es-ca-pé! I wonder what that means. It’s funny . . . It’s spelled just like the word ‘escape’.

Obstetrix by Naomi Kritzer

May 28, 2026 by narfna Leave a Comment

Thanks to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for the ARC. It hasn’t affected the contents of my review. Continuing my recent trend of perfect little genre novellas*, Obstetrix was exactly what I was wanting it to be. We follow Liz, a doctor who was recently prosecuted for performing the last abortion in North Dakota (the jury deemed her not guilty). Fresh off being traumatized, she is then kidnapped by a Christian fundamentalist cult to be their OBGYN. *A short novel? It’s just over 200 pages, my cutoff for […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: ARCs, audiobooks, childbirth, cults, Naomi Kritzer, novellas, Obstetrix, pregnancy, religious fundamentalism, Suspense

narfna's CBR18 Review No:15 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction, Suspense · Tags: ARCs, audiobooks, childbirth, cults, Naomi Kritzer, novellas, Obstetrix, pregnancy, religious fundamentalism, Suspense ·
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A Little Past Its Due Date

The Snapper (Barrytown #2) by Roddy Doyle

June 23, 2025 by Zirza Leave a Comment

In early nineties small-town Ireland, the Rabbitte family is met with an unwelcome surprise: daughter Sharon, aged 20, is pregnant. She will not reveal who the father is, much to the consternation of her friends and family. We see their ups and downs as Sharon’s pregnancy progresses.  Whoever buys English language books for my local library has struck again: for some reason it carries book 2, but not book 1 or 3, of the Barrytown Trilogy, and because I am an idiot and did not […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Barrytown, Barrytown Trilogy, childbirth, Ireland, Roddy Doyle

Zirza's CBR17 Review No:33 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Barrytown, Barrytown Trilogy, childbirth, Ireland, Roddy Doyle ·
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  • narfna
    on CBR BINGO: You—”‘Mm. Two lovers, from two feuding gentryclans, meeting secretly under false names for their tryst!’ She scoffed. ‘How puerile. How derivative. I pray it is more deviant than it appears!'”
    When I get like this I ask my id what it wants to read.
  • narfna
    on CBR BINGO: You—”‘Mm. Two lovers, from two feuding gentryclans, meeting secretly under false names for their tryst!’ She scoffed. ‘How puerile. How derivative. I pray it is more deviant than it appears!'”
    The ending was kind of wild!
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    on This metaphor is a metaphor for my metaphor.
    I don't remember much about this book, and I do not remember a Choose Your Own Adventure section at all!...
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    on CBR BINGO: You—”‘Mm. Two lovers, from two feuding gentryclans, meeting secretly under false names for their tryst!’ She scoffed. ‘How puerile. How derivative. I pray it is more deviant than it appears!'”
    I loved it; I have been in a bit of book slump lately but this one was a nice, “it...
  • LittlePlat
    on CBR BINGO: You—”‘Mm. Two lovers, from two feuding gentryclans, meeting secretly under false names for their tryst!’ She scoffed. ‘How puerile. How derivative. I pray it is more deviant than it appears!'”
    Yay, someone else who is (was) reading this! I have about 20% of the book to go; I hope to...
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