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Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time
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Everything she has is secondhand.

April 9, 2017 by borisanne 3 Comments

I succumbed and read The Girl on the Train! Why the hell didn’t any of you warn me that it would be impossible not to take it way too personally? J’accuse! (Just kidding; I like to stay unspoiled and wouldn’t have listened to you anyway.) What’s funny is that I listen to the “My Favorite Murder” podcast, and I’ve listened to their promo for the movie a whole bunch of times, in which the script goes “devasted by her recent divorce…” blah blah blah blah. […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: abuse, Alcohol, cbr9, divorce, Fiction, Hawkins, London, murder, murder mystery, mystery, Paula Hawkins, self-care, suburbs

borisanne's CBR9 Review No:10 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: abuse, Alcohol, cbr9, divorce, Fiction, Hawkins, London, murder, murder mystery, mystery, Paula Hawkins, self-care, suburbs ·
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Its essence is a mathematical construct, a self-referencing tautology, consecrated in the plane of regret.

September 3, 2016 by borisanne 2 Comments

A salute to the Cannonball Read and the Readers, for bringing this book into my brain. Holy crap, you guys. So good. Honestly, I had been expecting (and bracing myself for) something super duper effed up, based on the reviews that I had skimmed (to avoid spoilers). And yeah, it’s dark and horrifying and confusing and complex, but still really fricking readable. Here’s what I texted about 20 of my closest friends when I was halfway through and couldn’t stop reading last night: “It’s as […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: america, CBR8, fantasy, Fiction, gods, Hawkins, history, horror, librarian, magic, monsters, scott hawkins, studying, universe

borisanne's CBR8 Review No:36 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: america, CBR8, fantasy, Fiction, gods, Hawkins, history, horror, librarian, magic, monsters, scott hawkins, studying, universe ·
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