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A rare case in which the TV show is better (for a time)

Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris

April 2, 2021 by Mobius_Walker 2 Comments

If you’ve seen the HBO Show True Blood, then you know the plot of Dead Until Dark. Vampires are real and everyone knows about them. Sookie Stackhouse wants to meet a vampire desperately, but she’s just a waitress at a small bar in Bon Temps, Louisiana where nothing exciting ever happens. The only thing that keeps things interesting/challenging for Sookie is that she can read minds. Other than that, her life is boring: she goes to work, she goes home to her home where she lives with […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: Charlaine Harris, Dead Until Dark, hbo, sookie stackhouse, True Blood, vampires

Mobius_Walker's CBR13 Review No:15 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: Charlaine Harris, Dead Until Dark, hbo, sookie stackhouse, True Blood, vampires ·
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cbr12bingo – Adaptation!

Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff

July 4, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

It is 1954, and a young man named Atticus is headed home to Chicago. In Chicago he will find his beloved uncle and aunt, who together run The Safe Negro Travel Guide and Travel Agency. His uncle, like himself, is a lover of pulp novels and dime store comics. His aunt travels the country alone, adding stops to the travel guide while looking at the stars. He’ll find his little cousin, a comic-book hound and talented artist. He’ll find his old friend Titia, who has […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: 1950s America, adaptation, cbr12bingo, Chicago, comic books, cosmic horror, family tree, H.P. Lovecraft, Haunted House, hbo, Jim Crow, lovecraftian, magic, Matt Ruff, occult, pulp horror, Racism, salem, supernatural, tulsa massacre

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:68 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Suspense · Tags: 1950s America, adaptation, cbr12bingo, Chicago, comic books, cosmic horror, family tree, H.P. Lovecraft, Haunted House, hbo, Jim Crow, lovecraftian, magic, Matt Ruff, occult, pulp horror, Racism, salem, supernatural, tulsa massacre ·
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Clothing Westeros

Game of Thrones: Costumes - The Official Book Seasons 1 - 8 by Michele Clapton

February 6, 2020 by Ale 2 Comments

Because Faintingviolet loves me and totally feeds my addictions, I was gifted this amazing costume reference guide from the Game of Thrones series for Christmas. Written by costumer, Michele Clapton herself, the book is almost as long and comprehensive as GRRM’s series. Complete with full color professional photographs, closeups of the costumes, and some of Clapton’s original drawings, this book was an excellent study in both costuming and the intense process that goes into bringing the written word to screen. Clapton goes through each of […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Non-Fiction Tagged With: clothing, costume guide, costumes, fashion, game of thrones, hbo, Michele Clapton, Series, sewing, tv

Ale's CBR12 Review No:4 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Non-Fiction · Tags: clothing, costume guide, costumes, fashion, game of thrones, hbo, Michele Clapton, Series, sewing, tv ·
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The Big Little Lies That We Tell …

Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty

April 11, 2017 by xoxoxoe Leave a Comment

I just finished watching the HBO series Big Little Lies and, I’m sure, like many others, didn’t want it to end. The slow, almost hypnotic pace of the direction by Jean-Marc Vallée in producer and writer David E. Kelley’s adaptation of Liane Moriarty’s book eased viewers into the complicated lives of the mothers of first graders in an affluent suburb of Monterey, California. I quickly scooped up the book and was not disappointed by its southern Australian setting. The characters are the same: the charismatic, rapid-fire and funny Maddie, […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: Big Little Lies, Books, Cable television, hbo, Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon

xoxoxoe's CBR9 Review No:3 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: Big Little Lies, Books, Cable television, hbo, Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon ·
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Poppin’ Up in Westeros

Game of Thrones: A Pop-Up Guide to Westeros by Matthew Reinhart and Michael Komarck

April 23, 2014 by xoxoxoe Leave a Comment

While there has been a lot of internet speculation (and outrage) over the latest Game of Thrones episode, “Breaker of Chains,” I have been preoccupied with a new acquisition, the Game of Thrones: A Pop-Up Guide to Westeros. Designed by renowned paper engineer Matthew Reinhart and illustrator Michael Komarck, the book is a blast, with not just the cool buildings that populate the fantasy series, but lots of fun pop-up surprises and pull-out guides to all of the warring houses from George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire novels and […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: #CBR6, Books, Cable television, game of thrones, hbo, pop-up, television, xoxoxoe

xoxoxoe's CBR6 Review No:10 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: #CBR6, Books, Cable television, game of thrones, hbo, pop-up, television, xoxoxoe ·
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