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Blade by Wendy Walker

March 21, 2026 by kfishgirl Leave a Comment

I was today years old when I realized that I could put a meme of a cat ice skating on a human’s body as my featured image. I’ve been CBR’ing since like CBR 6 and I’ve always been a good girl and put the book cover out front. Not today though, because I’m a rebel! As cute as that ice skating man cat is though, Blade is about murder (dun dun dun!).  Ana was a future / almost Olympic skater at an elite training school […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: figure skating, ice, murder, Wendy Walker

kfishgirl's CBR18 Review No:12 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: figure skating, ice, murder, Wendy Walker ·
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The idea of being stranded on these lonely hills in the dark appalled me.

Ice by Anna Kavan

April 7, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This is a truly bizarre and wonderful novel. This would also make a difficult and beautiful and amazing movie I think. What is this? Imagine if Virginia Woolf wrote Sliders. Well more so imagine if Virginia Woolf wrote Chris Marker’s Le Jetee. So this book follows a male narrator pursuing a young woman who envisions in a barren landscape of snow and ice through a kind of time travel/alternate universe slip stream. Each chapter opens with the briefest of descriptions of his journey, of his […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: anna kavan, ice

vel veeter's CBR11 Review No:172 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: anna kavan, ice ·
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