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faint brush strokes evoking the image of an open human rib cage with the title You Feel It Just Below the Ribs

What Is “The Apocalypse” Anyway But Another Series of Bad Days, Or Same As It Ever Was, Or It’s Irrelevant

You Feel It Just Below the Ribs by Jeffrey Cranor & Janina Matthewson

June 29, 2023 by Flimflamingo Leave a Comment

I can’t really explain it, but You Feel It Just Below the Ribs is a near five star book. I rated it 4.5 stars on Storygraph and I’m not quite sure why I didn’t rate it a 5. I want to… there’s something… but I want to. But I won’t. Because there’s something on the tip of my tongue or on the cusp of catchable thoughts that maybe I can’t articulate. Or maybe I’m just that much of a hard ass. There are a few things […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: alternate history, Between the Wires, dystopia, epistolary, Janina Mathewson, Jeffrey Cranor, Jeffrey Cranor & Janina Matthewson, lesbian, lgbt, LGBTQ, LGBTQIA, queer, You Feel It Just Below the Ribs

Flimflamingo's CBR15 Review No:18 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: alternate history, Between the Wires, dystopia, epistolary, Janina Mathewson, Jeffrey Cranor, Jeffrey Cranor & Janina Matthewson, lesbian, lgbt, LGBTQ, LGBTQIA, queer, You Feel It Just Below the Ribs ·
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Cinderella is Dead (RIP)

Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Bayron

June 21, 2023 by cosbrarian Leave a Comment

Cinderella gets a Handmaid’s Tale twist for a YA Audience in Bayron’s book, with a queer protagonist too! It has been 200 years since Cinderella got her “Happily Ever After” in the kingdom of Lille.  Her story is now essentially the kingdom’s Bible, but very few people in Lille get to share in a happily ever after of their own. The kingdom is ruled by a cruel king, whose rulebook is a patriarchal nightmare. Curfews for female residents and no freedoms of which to speak; […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Young Adult Tagged With: Bahni Turpin, cinderella, dystopia, fairy tale, fractured fairytale, Kalynn Bayron, LGBTQ, YA

cosbrarian's CBR15 Review No:4 · Genres: Audiobooks, Young Adult · Tags: Bahni Turpin, cinderella, dystopia, fairy tale, fractured fairytale, Kalynn Bayron, LGBTQ, YA ·
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Well, I wanted to find out what happened next

Stung V02 Cured by Bethany Wiggins

December 6, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Book two of the Stung series by Bethany Wiggins should be read after you’ve read book one, or some of the names, events and the overall concept will be lost. This time we see in Cured how it follows a character we had seen in book one but was not important to that story arc, the two main characters of book one, a few side characters from book one and a few new people. There are some mature themes such as an event happened to […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Health, Mystery, Romance, Science Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: Action & Adventure, Bethany Wiggins, dystopia, family, siblings, Social Themes, survival

BlackRaven's CBR14 Review No:586 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Health, Mystery, Romance, Science Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: Action & Adventure, Bethany Wiggins, dystopia, family, siblings, Social Themes, survival ·
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“The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.”

The Giver by Lois Lowry

August 11, 2022 by ardaigle Leave a Comment

Cannonball Read Bingo Square: Minds I have owned a copy of The Giver for quite a while and it has sat collecting dust on our bookshelf reserved for the classics. My kiddo, on a whim, picked it up and when my 13-year-old picks up something that is a classic, I generally take that as an opportunity to revisit it. (See also, failed attempt to get him to read “A Wrinkle in Time.”) When I picked it up to reread, I soon began to wonder if […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: cbr14bingo, classic, dystopia, Lois Lowry, Newberry Medal winner, The Giver, Young Adult

ardaigle's CBR14 Review No:29 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: cbr14bingo, classic, dystopia, Lois Lowry, Newberry Medal winner, The Giver, Young Adult ·
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July 2022 Leftovers

The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware

From Crook to Cook: Platinum Recipies from Tha Boss Dogg's Kitchen by Snoop Dogg

Brighton Rock by Graham Greene

Plunder of the Sun by David Dodge

Stunt: A Mythical Reimagining of Nellie Jackson, Madame of Natchez by Saida Agostini

The Last Pirate of New York: A Ghost Ship, A Killer, and the Birth of a Gangster Nation by Rich Cohen

The Guest List by Lucy Foley

Defender of the Innocent: The Casebook Files of Martin Ehrengraf by Lawrence Block

Voluntary Madness by Vicki Hendricks

Two Gentlemen of Lebowski: A Most Excellent Comedie and Tragic Romance by Adam Bertocci

The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor by Gabriel García Márquez

A Night to Remember by Walter Lord

Slonim Woods 9: A Memoir by Daniel Barban Levin

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman

My Summer Darlings by May Cobb

The Cat Who Saved Books by Sōsuke Natsukawa

Firestarter by Stephen King

The Editor by Steven Rowley

Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson

Crossroad Blues by Ace Atkins

Lucky by Jackie Collins

August 5, 2022 by Jake 2 Comments

Here are reviews for the books I read in July that I didn’t have time or energy to do a full review on. Note: I was out of work in July so I read a lot. The Woman in Cabin 10 *** Read this while on a cruise ship and it definitely gave me some interesting feelings! A relatively entertaining thriller. I’d read another Ruth Ware book but wouldn’t rush out to do so From Crook to Cook: Platinum Recipes From Tha Boss Dogg’s Kitchen**** […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food, Fiction, History, Horror, Mystery, Non-Fiction, Romance, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: a clockwork orange, A Night to Remember, Ace Atkins, Adam Bertocci, Anthony Burgess, Blues (Music), boarding school, Books about books, Brighton, Brighton Rock, Cats, Colombia, cookbooks, Crossroad Blues, Cruise Ship, cults, Daniel Barban Levin, David Dodge, Defender of the Innocent, dystopia, England, erotica, Firestarter, From Crook to Cook, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, gangsters, Graham Greene, hard case crime, Ireland, island, Jackie Collins, jackie kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Japan, Key West, Larry Ray, lawrence block, legal thriller, Loki, Louisiana, lucky, Lucy Foley, maureen johnson, May Cobb, mississippi, My Summer Darlings, mystery, mythology, Neil Gaiman, Nellie Jackson, New York City, Nick Travers, norse mythology, Odin, piracy, Plunder of the Sun, poetry, reread, Rich Cohen, Ruth Ware, Saida Agostini, Sara Lawrence College, search for treasure, shipwreck, short stories, Slonim Woods 9, Snoop Dogg, Sōsuke Natsukawa, Stephen King, Steven Rowley, Stunt, Texas, The Big Lebowski, The Cat Who Saved Books, the editor, the guest list, The Last Pirate of New York, The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor, The Woman in Cabin 10, Thor, Titanic, true crime, truly devious, Two Gentlemen of Lebowski. Shakespeare, Vermont, Vicki Hendricks, Voluntary Madness, Walter Lord

Jake's CBR14 Review No:145 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food, Fiction, History, Horror, Mystery, Non-Fiction, Romance, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction, Suspense · Tags: a clockwork orange, A Night to Remember, Ace Atkins, Adam Bertocci, Anthony Burgess, Blues (Music), boarding school, Books about books, Brighton, Brighton Rock, Cats, Colombia, cookbooks, Crossroad Blues, Cruise Ship, cults, Daniel Barban Levin, David Dodge, Defender of the Innocent, dystopia, England, erotica, Firestarter, From Crook to Cook, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, gangsters, Graham Greene, hard case crime, Ireland, island, Jackie Collins, jackie kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Japan, Key West, Larry Ray, lawrence block, legal thriller, Loki, Louisiana, lucky, Lucy Foley, maureen johnson, May Cobb, mississippi, My Summer Darlings, mystery, mythology, Neil Gaiman, Nellie Jackson, New York City, Nick Travers, norse mythology, Odin, piracy, Plunder of the Sun, poetry, reread, Rich Cohen, Ruth Ware, Saida Agostini, Sara Lawrence College, search for treasure, shipwreck, short stories, Slonim Woods 9, Snoop Dogg, Sōsuke Natsukawa, Stephen King, Steven Rowley, Stunt, Texas, The Big Lebowski, The Cat Who Saved Books, the editor, the guest list, The Last Pirate of New York, The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor, The Woman in Cabin 10, Thor, Titanic, true crime, truly devious, Two Gentlemen of Lebowski. Shakespeare, Vermont, Vicki Hendricks, Voluntary Madness, Walter Lord ·
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A bazillion miles away and still too close to home

Goldilocks by Laura Lam

July 12, 2022 by Bothari43 2 Comments

This is another mid-apocalyptic sci-fi story where the Earth is in trouble and a group of astronauts is trying to save the day. Except it was written in 2020, and the author is taking some of the real life atrocities and pushing it out to the worst possible conclusions, and reading it in 2022, it seems all too plausible. There are multiple plagues and thousands of refugees as climate change makes vast swaths of the planet unlivable. The president is a fundamentalist wingnut, abortion has […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: dystopia, Laura Lam, the Earth is doomed

Bothari43's CBR14 Review No:14 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: dystopia, Laura Lam, the Earth is doomed ·
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