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Spending a little extra time with some characters I love.

Ghosts: The Button House Archives by Mathew Baynton, Simon Farnaby, Martha Howe-Douglas, Jim Howick, Laurence Rickard, Ben Willbond

September 15, 2025 by faintingviolet 1 Comment

Everyone has their comfort entertainments and one of mine is the television show Ghosts. It started with the BBC version which aired 2019-2023 and I think I’ve watched it at least annually since I discovered it in the early part of COVID lockdowns. Ghosts: The Button House Archives is the kind of series companion book that is fan-service, but in an enjoyable “a fun bit of extra content that deepens some of the jokes and visual gags of the show while sneaking in some additional […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor Tagged With: cbr17bingo, fan service, G., Mathew Baynton, Simon Farnaby, Martha Howe-Douglas, Jim Howick, Laurence Rickard, Ben Willbond, read harder challenge

faintingviolet's CBR17 Review No:37 · Genres: Comedy/Humor · Tags: cbr17bingo, fan service, G., Mathew Baynton, Simon Farnaby, Martha Howe-Douglas, Jim Howick, Laurence Rickard, Ben Willbond, read harder challenge ·
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A Journey to the Center of Life

Gen: Perjalanan Menuju Pusat Kehidupan by Siddharta Mukherjee; Damaring Tyas W Palar

July 17, 2025 by LittlePlat Leave a Comment

Another (daft) reading challenge! A few years back I took the best part of 8 months to read through an Indonesian translation of The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer  (Kanker Biografi Suatu Penyakit.) I wasn’t sure if I was going to continue with the rest of the translations of Mukherjee’s books. But Google Play was nothing but persistent.  So there we have it; it was a little less laborious this time, but I have managed to make my way though the translation […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Featured, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #history, biotechnology, cbr17bingo, dumb stunts, eugenics, G., Gene, Genetics, science, Siddharta Mukherjee; Damaring Tyas W Palar, translation

LittlePlat's CBR17 Review No:10 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Featured, Non-Fiction · Tags: #history, biotechnology, cbr17bingo, dumb stunts, eugenics, G., Gene, Genetics, science, Siddharta Mukherjee; Damaring Tyas W Palar, translation ·
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Falling in love at five or six, although rare, is the same as falling in love at fifty.

G. by John Berger

September 30, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

G. is the nominative for a young Italian/British man born in the 1880s, reared in the 1890s, ancillary witness to major movements in history (Garibaldi and the rise of socialism in England and beyond), and experiencing a kind of liberation from the constraints of 19th century mores, we have the meditations and liberties of sexuality that would have definitely been a part of the landscape, but missing from much of the literature. This is a book, though, that doesn’t parody and mimic the structures and […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: G., John Berger

vel veeter's CBR11 Review No:540 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: G., John Berger ·
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