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Longing for the sound of an electric guitar

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

May 26, 2022 by esme Leave a Comment

I finally put this on my reading list after one of the CBR13 happy hours. Someone mentioned that Emily St. John Mandel had a new book coming out that they were looking forward to, and somehow I pulled that thread and made my way back to Station Eleven. I had been aware of it before that conversation, yet the blurb had never struck my fancy, likely because I have a very complicated relationship with dystopian fiction. Frankly, and as has been noted on this site […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: dystopia, Emily St. John Mandel, Fiction, public health

esme's CBR14 Review No:3 · Genres: Fiction, Suspense · Tags: dystopia, Emily St. John Mandel, Fiction, public health ·
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Another short story to fill the void between the super long ones!!

2BR02B by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

March 29, 2022 by kfishgirl Leave a Comment

I think I saw Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. and remembered back to high school where I read Fahrenheit 451 (not KVJr), Catcher in the Rye (not KVJr), and some other book that wasn’t written by him.  I guess I just got them all mixed up in my head, so don’t yell at me.  I’m not sure I’ve ever read a Kurt Vonnegut Jr. book now that I’m looking back? Anybody have any recommendations?  Obviously I read this book, but it’s a short story, so a bit […]

Filed Under: Short Stories, Speculative Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: dystopia, kurt vonnegut jr, population control, scheduled murder, suicide

kfishgirl's CBR14 Review No:10 · Genres: Short Stories, Speculative Fiction, Suspense · Tags: dystopia, kurt vonnegut jr, population control, scheduled murder, suicide ·
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Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments

Immersive, engaging and a whole lotta fun

Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments by T.L. Huchu

March 9, 2022 by llamareadsbooks 2 Comments

T.L. Huchu’s The Library of the Dead was one of my favorite books of last year, so you better believe I went nuts when I saw that unbelievable cover. Just like the first, this book is captivating, immersing you in the world of a post-catastrophe Edinburgh through the eyes of one teen girl who can quote Sun Tzu one moment and then fall back into Scottish slang the next. After the events of the last book, Ropa’s ghostalking business has tanked. But that’s ok because she’s […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: #fantasy, dystopia, scotland, T.L. Huchu

llamareadsbooks's CBR14 Review No:17 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: #fantasy, dystopia, scotland, T.L. Huchu ·
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Did you just yada yada yada the apocalypse?

Not Your Sidekick by C.B. Lee

January 20, 2022 by Debcapsfan Leave a Comment

More post apocalyptic fiction! This time, we don’t really get into the why things happen and what caused this, this book takes place long into the future, where there are metahumans with super powers, and heroes and villains. Not Your Sidekick, by C.B.Lee tells the story of Jessica Tran, living in a futuristic town where her parents are minor celebrity super heroes. Her sister is a much bigger super hero working for the League of Heroes. Jess is bi, and has a big crush on […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Science Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: c.b. lee, dystopia, sci-fi, superheroes, YA

Debcapsfan's CBR14 Review No:3 · Genres: Audiobooks, Science Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: c.b. lee, dystopia, sci-fi, superheroes, YA ·
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Brave New World photo from miniseries

Brave New World. Meh.

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

October 21, 2021 by msvreadsbooks 2 Comments

I’ve been curious about this book for a long time. 1984 by George Orwell was one of my favorite books as an adolescent, and Brave New World is often mentioned in the same breath. So when I found a Brave New World mini-series, I thought I’d check it out.  The mini-series stars Jessica Brown Findlay (Lady Sybil from Downton Abbey), Harry Lloyd (Viserys Targaryen from GOT), and Alden Ehrenreich (Young Han Solo from Solo), and it tells the story of a “utopic” future London where […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: aldous huxley, Classism, dystopia, mini-series, misogyny, Racism, TV Show, utopia

msvreadsbooks's CBR13 Review No:46 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: aldous huxley, Classism, dystopia, mini-series, misogyny, Racism, TV Show, utopia ·
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The Importance of the Library

Deal With the Devil by Kit Rocha

September 5, 2021 by CoffeeShopReader 1 Comment

Bingo 18: Shelfie I knew there was going to be some romance going into Deal with the Devil, but I was really hoping the series title “Mercenary Librarians” would be more the focus. Sadly for me, this was definitely more romance than librarian-ness. Set in a somewhat generic dystopic US potentially within my lifetime (maybe, assuming I get close to the triple digit age) after humanity has been devastated by some massive solar flare activity (I liked how this was put in; not a big […]

Filed Under: Romance, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: #Science Fiction, adventure, cbr13bingo, clones, dystopia, heist, kit rocha, Romance, Speculative Fiction, super-soldiers

CoffeeShopReader's CBR13 Review No:75 · Genres: Romance, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: #Science Fiction, adventure, cbr13bingo, clones, dystopia, heist, kit rocha, Romance, Speculative Fiction, super-soldiers ·
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