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a fine final read of 2019

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

December 31, 2019 by andtheIToldYouSos 4 Comments

I first came across Little Women as a child, and I came across it out of order; we had an old cloth-bound copy of Jo’s Boys on the bookshelf in my childhood home. It was next to Treasure Island, which I had devoured, and being a child I assumed that since books were next to each other they must be related. Ooops! I quickly learned the error of my ways (thanks Willoughby Wallace Memorial Library!) and settled down with an old illustrated tome. I was Jo. Who wasn’t […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fiction Tagged With: 150th anniversay, American classic, Anne Boyd Rioux, cbr11, coming-of-age, female author, genre-bending, half-cannonball, louisa may alcott, New England Renaissance, patti smith, penguin classics

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR11 Review No:26 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction · Tags: 150th anniversay, American classic, Anne Boyd Rioux, cbr11, coming-of-age, female author, genre-bending, half-cannonball, louisa may alcott, New England Renaissance, patti smith, penguin classics ·
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Half-Cannonball? The books I read and didn’t review

Multiple titles by Multiple authors

December 31, 2017 by Aquillia Leave a Comment

I needed to write one more review to reach my goal of a half-cannonball, so here’s a roundup of the books I read and didn’t review this year. Does this still count? Throne of Glass by Sarah J Maas. 3 stars. I enjoyed this one, reading it on a 7 hour plane journey. The love triangle was a bit irritating in that the end took a bit of a cop out so that it could be an element in later books, but overall it was […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: agatha christie, book round up, half-cannonball, Jeff Wheeler, sarah j maas, Stephen King, T. E. Kinsey

Aquillia's CBR9 Review No:26 · Genres: Uncategorized · Tags: agatha christie, book round up, half-cannonball, Jeff Wheeler, sarah j maas, Stephen King, T. E. Kinsey ·
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God bless busybody community matriarchs, and all that sail in them.

Broken Homes by Ben Aaronovitch

June 30, 2017 by borisanne Leave a Comment

More, please. More, more, more. I just love me some Peter Grant. And fair warning to the reader who may be interested in this series: this book, Broken Homes, which is Book 4 of the “Rivers of London” series, isn’t the strongest of the bunch. But it’s still a delight and a treat, and I will fight anyone who isn’t a fan. Listen, I have five more “Dark Tower” books to read in the next five weeks, but I still just checked out Foxglove Summer […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: aaronovitch, architecture, Ben Aaronovitch, chimeras, faceless man, gods, half-cannonball, industry, London, magic, met police, night witches, pc peter grant, Peter Grant, river spirits, rivers, Rivers of London, technology, Urban Fantasy, witch, witches

borisanne's CBR9 Review No:26 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: aaronovitch, architecture, Ben Aaronovitch, chimeras, faceless man, gods, half-cannonball, industry, London, magic, met police, night witches, pc peter grant, Peter Grant, river spirits, rivers, Rivers of London, technology, Urban Fantasy, witch, witches ·
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In Russia, dragon flies you

Blood of Tyrants: A Novel of Temeraire by Naomi Novik

July 5, 2016 by borisanne 3 Comments

(note before I start this review: HALF CANNONBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!) At this point, Blood of Tyrants being the eighth book in the Temeraire series, I am still very much on board the Temeraire train, but reading all of them in a row without the benefit of waiting between books (other than brief stints when the library is out of copies of whatever’s next) has meant that a certain fatigue has set in. I think I said in an earlier review that Novik has an incredible way of […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, History Tagged With: CBR8, China, dragons, fantasy, half-cannonball, historical fiction, history, mary sue, Naomi novik, napoleon, Novik, Russia, Temeraire

borisanne's CBR8 Review No:26 · Genres: Fantasy, History · Tags: CBR8, China, dragons, fantasy, half-cannonball, historical fiction, history, mary sue, Naomi novik, napoleon, Novik, Russia, Temeraire ·
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