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“Perhaps the compulsion to fill every inch of space was because it made him feel less alone.”

The Authenticity Project by Clare Pooley

May 13, 2022 by narfna Leave a Comment

This was a perfectly fine book. I do not regret reading it. Ringing endorsement! It also isn’t really to my tastes anymore (though I think the me of ten plus years ago would have loved it). It feels too pat and constructed, not ‘optimistic,’ that’s not the right word . . . I don’t know how to explain it. Just saying it’s not to my taste really anymore seems easier than trying to figure it out. The premise is pretty high concept. A former artist […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: British, British fiction, Clare Pooley, epistolary, Fiction, the authenticity project

narfna's CBR14 Review No:65 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: British, British fiction, Clare Pooley, epistolary, Fiction, the authenticity project ·
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How does one describe this book?

Freedom & Necessity by Steven Brust & Emma Bull

April 25, 2022 by narfna Leave a Comment

I’m having the hardest time writing this review, but I just need to suck it up and word vomit out something, because I read this back in March. The problem is, I have no idea how to describe this strange, strange book. And also, not sure how I feel about it? Like, I enjoyed it? I gave it four stars (well, 3.5)? But I also still find it confounding. By the way, Steven Brust and Emma Bull teaming up to write this somehow led me […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: #fantasy, british fantasy, British history, emma bull, epistolary, Freedom & Necessity, historical fantasy, narfna, Stephen Brust, Steven Brust & Emma Bull

narfna's CBR14 Review No:49 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: #fantasy, british fantasy, British history, emma bull, epistolary, Freedom & Necessity, historical fantasy, narfna, Stephen Brust, Steven Brust & Emma Bull ·
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A Do-It-Yourself Mystery.

The Appeal by Janice Hallett

January 26, 2022 by narfna 2 Comments

This was a pretty unique reading experience! I picked it up because of the pretty cover (the American one is shit, so yes I did buy it from the UK) and because it sad ‘Sunday Times Bestseller’ on it, and it’s a mystery. I am basic. (In my defense, the last time I did all of that, I ended up with The Thursday Murder Club, which everyone who loves mysteries should read immediately.) For all y’all Americans, the appeal in question is not a legal […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: British mystery, epistolary, Janice Hallett, mystery, The Appeal

narfna's CBR14 Review No:15 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: British mystery, epistolary, Janice Hallett, mystery, The Appeal ·
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This Is How You Break Your Readers

This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone

August 24, 2021 by Ale 3 Comments

I don’t think Faintingviolet had even finished this book before promising to hand it off to me. And at this point in our friendship, I don’t question her if she’s recommending a book. I just accept, and this book…..holy moly, this book….. Before we get to why I was utterly destroyed at the hands of This is How You Lose the Time War, we have to go back to my first book recommendation to Faintingviolet. I had read a book called The Illuminator that wrecked […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: Amal El-Mohtar, cbr13bingo, co-authored, epistolary, love letters, Max Gladstone, rec'd square, time travel, war

Ale's CBR13 Review No:15 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: Amal El-Mohtar, cbr13bingo, co-authored, epistolary, love letters, Max Gladstone, rec'd square, time travel, war ·
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The *uick Brown Fox

Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn

January 11, 2021 by chelz.hawk 2 Comments

“I am so fearful, Ella, as to where this all may lead. A silly little letter, to be sure, but I believe its theft represents something quite large and oh so frighteningly ominous.” There is small island called Nollop off the east coast of the United States named after Nevin Nollop, the author of the pangram “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog”. In Nollop’s honor they have erected a statue of Nollop’s likeness with his famed sentence hung underneath. One morning, the […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: epistolary, epistolary fiction, letters, Mark Dunn, pangram, Totalitarianism

chelz.hawk's CBR13 Review No:1 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: epistolary, epistolary fiction, letters, Mark Dunn, pangram, Totalitarianism ·
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“How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.”

Dracula by Bram Stoker

December 28, 2019 by narfna 2 Comments

I don’t have the time or energy to write as much or as deeply as I would like to about this strange, 100+ year old book, so I’m just going to settle with posting some brief thoughts below. Somehow I managed to make it out of years and years of schooling, with two English degrees, without reading this book. Which is right up my alley! All that discussion of monsters and things that are taboo swathed in metaphor. I love that shit. When I first […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Horror Tagged With: bram stoker, classics, Dracula, epistolary, horror, narfna, read harder challenge 2019, Victorian

narfna's CBR11 Review No:137 · Genres: Audiobooks, Horror · Tags: bram stoker, classics, Dracula, epistolary, horror, narfna, read harder challenge 2019, Victorian ·
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