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A ghost story without much story

The Graveyard Apartment by Mariko Koike

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How long would you stay if you suspected your new apartment was haunted? A week? Six months? Two hundred pages? Misao, her husband Teppei, and their small daughter move into a gorgeous new apartment building. The price is suspiciously low, because the building is located right next to a cemetery, temple, and crematorium. Also suspicious: half the new apartments are empty, and the ones that are occupied are rapidly losing their tenants. The first day they move in, the family’s parakeet dies, and the little girl keeps talking about how the ghost of the bird visits her to tell her […]

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6/15/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:12 |

Read Harder Challenge 2018 Complete! Final Cannonball 10 Review!

The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

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Sneaking in with a bit to spare, on a borrowed computer, and one book behind last year’s pace I’m finally posting my last review of Cannonball Read 10. This was the Read Harder 2018 task I was looking least forward to, and I managed to push it off until the last possible moment, but at least I am completing the challenge this year. Task 24 was to “read an assigned book you hated (or never finished)”. In reality I have very few books that I never completed, and the ones that I hated I don’t really feel emotionally prepared to […]

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12/30/2018 's CBR10 Review No:64 |

Ghostbusting in Harry Potter-ville

City of Ghosts by Victoria Schwab

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Full disclosure: I had to read this quickly in one sitting in a coffee shop because I was going to see the author and have her sign it a few hours later. I’d pre-ordered City of Ghosts, but given when it was actually shipped (the day after it was released), I didn’t receive it until Saturday, and the talk/signing was Sunday. Mission was accomplished though, so I guess no harm done. I hadn’t realized this but City of Ghosts is actually V.E./Victoria Schwab’s first middle grade book. Somehow I’d had it in my head this was going to be another […]

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9/9/2018 's CBR10 Review No:51 |

Harry’s long dark night of the soul.

Ghost Story (The Dresden Files, #13) by Jim Butcher

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See, this is why we need half stars. This book right here. This is not a five star book for me, but I liked it better than four stars, also, and feel weird rating it the same as other books I’ve rated four stars and enjoyed less. It is a perfect encapsulation of the 4.5 star book. So round up or down? Up or down? It is a terrible decision. Don’t read on if you haven’t read through book twelve. Spoilers ahoy. A little bit of the luster wore off this on re-read, so I’m feeling like maybe I should […]

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5/30/2018 's CBR10 Review No:66 |

Perverted Ghosts

Spindrift by Amy Rae Durreson

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This book is not my usual type, but frankly I am running out of historical m/m by authors I trust and this author was recommended on Goodreads, so I gave this a shot. From the Amazon description: When lonely artist Siôn Ruston retreats to the seaside village of Rosewick Bay, Yorkshire, to recover from a suicide attempt, he doesn’t expect to encounter any ghosts, let alone the one who appears in his bedroom every morning at dawn. He also doesn’t expect to meet his ghost’s gorgeous, flirty descendant working at the local museum… I loved this book. I fell in […]

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7/18/2017 's CBR9 Review No:24 |

Peony in Love

Peony in Love by Lisa See

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Peony in Love was, well, more the story of how a girlish obsession could turn into a one-note bit of character development.  Sadly, Peony is a boring young lady, rich and well-bred, and betrothed to a rather mushy-headed young man.  They meet once, never once trading identities (it’s once a night for three nights, actually, but they do so little they could have done it all in one night) and based on that, Peony is In Love.  Her mild obsession with the Chinese opera “The Peony Pavilion” pops out in full force, and she begins to skip meals and self-care, […]

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3/25/2017 's CBR9 Review No:4 |

In Search of an Unsolved Mystery involving a Monkey’s Paw

A Stir of Echoes by Richard Matheson

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From Wikipedia: “Tom Wallace lived an ordinary life, until a chance event awakened psychic abilities he never knew he possessed. Now he’s hearing the private thoughts of the people around him and learning shocking secrets he never wanted to know. But as Tom’s existence becomes a waking nightmare, even greater jolts are in store as he becomes the unwilling recipient of a message from beyond the grave.” I’m almost certain I saw this movie at some point, but remember almost nothing about it. It’s somehow gotten combined with the Bill Paxton movie Frailty which, for those who haven’t seen it, […]

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2/17/2017 's CBR9 Review No:5 |

The sun comes up, just your bones remain

Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day by Seanan McGuire

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Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day is a standalone novella by Seanan McGuire who is one of my favorite writers. I love her work and I recommend it every chance I get. But even with all that, this novella hit me in a very different way than most of her novels do. I can’t be objective about this novella, I just can’t. It completely and utterly wrecked me and left me a sobbing mess on my couch last night. Yesterday morning I got an email from Amazon letting me know that a new Seanan McGuire novella was available for purchase, […]

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1/11/2017 's CBR9 Review No:4 |


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