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down to the wire (as always) – BOOK CLUB TIME!

All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

September 16, 2022 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

Why did I wait so long to read these two? This isn’t just a question of Book Club procrastination; this is a “what was I thinking?” moment! I had heard good things about both, I was enraged as ever when they (and others) showed up on lists of challenged and banned books, and they were both available on scribd! Also- why did I treat these books like homework? “oh man, I have to read these before I can move on to other things”- at the […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir, Book Club, Fiction, Non-Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: adapt, adaptation, Angie Thomas, audio, audiobook, banned book week, banned books, CannonBookClub, cbr14bingo, coming-of-age, culture, family, generational trauma, George M. Johnson, heart, lgtbqia, queer, Race, trauma, violence, we're with the band, YA

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR14 Review No:46 · Genres: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir, Book Club, Fiction, Non-Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: adapt, adaptation, Angie Thomas, audio, audiobook, banned book week, banned books, CannonBookClub, cbr14bingo, coming-of-age, culture, family, generational trauma, George M. Johnson, heart, lgtbqia, queer, Race, trauma, violence, we're with the band, YA ·
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Another mediocre You’ve Got Mail retelling.

Read Between the Lines (Ms. Right, #1) by Rachel Lacey

August 23, 2022 by narfna 4 Comments

I liked this, but not nearly as much as I wanted to. I don’t think I knew this was a You’ve Got Mail retelling when I put this on my TBR, but maybe I did and I’ve just forgotten. Either way, it took me by surprise when the references started piling up: There’s a dog named Brinkley, a woman who owns a bookshop she inherited from her mother and who has a picture of her mother on the counter of the two of them dancing; the […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Romance Tagged With: audiobooks, Contemporary Romance, f/f, lgtbqia, queer romance, Rachel Lacey, read between the lines, Romance

narfna's CBR14 Review No:140 · Genres: Audiobooks, Romance · Tags: audiobooks, Contemporary Romance, f/f, lgtbqia, queer romance, Rachel Lacey, read between the lines, Romance ·
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the great 2022 Bingo Catch-Up!

Fool Moon by Jim Butcher

Wow, No Thank You by Samantha Irby

A Dead Djinn in Cairo by P. Djeli Clark

From Hollywood, With Love by Scott Meslow

The Companion by E.E. Ottoman

My Mother, She Killed Me, My Father, He Ate Me by Kate Bernheimer

August 7, 2022 by andtheIToldYouSos 1 Comment

It wouldn’t be CBR Bingo without me frantically catching up on everything I read but was too distracted to write about, now would it? Square: Cold – Fool Moon – DNF This is it, folks- my first DNF in YEARS! I just couldn’t do it. I started this book way back in JANUARY, and despite multiple formats and multiple tries, I just can’t do it. I know there’s a mythical “it gets better” carrot hanging out past the fourth entry, but I just don’t have […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, History, Non-Fiction, Short Stories Tagged With: adaptations, andtheIToldYouSos, cbr14bingo, Dresden Files, E.E. Ottoman, fairytales, film, Jim Butcher, Kate Bernheimer, lgtbqia, P. Djèlí Clark, retellings, rom coms, Samantha Irby, Scott Meslow

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR14 Review No:43 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, History, Non-Fiction, Short Stories · Tags: adaptations, andtheIToldYouSos, cbr14bingo, Dresden Files, E.E. Ottoman, fairytales, film, Jim Butcher, Kate Bernheimer, lgtbqia, P. Djèlí Clark, retellings, rom coms, Samantha Irby, Scott Meslow ·
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If you ever wanted to hear LeVar Burton say the phrase “sweet and salty love”, then this is the collection for YOU!

The Visit by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Black Pages by Nnedi Okorafor

2043...A Merman I Should Turn to Be by Nisi Shawl

These Alien Skies by C.T. Rwizi

Clap Back by Nalo Hopkinson

We Travel the Spaceways by Victor LaValle

March 2, 2022 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

You can hear LeVar say lots of other things, if you like! You can also hear Nyambi Nyambi, Naomi Ackie, Indya Moore, Adenrele Ojo, and Brian Tyree Henry! The six-entry Black Stars collection is another new(ish) group of short stories available from Amazon Originals. They are available on both kindle and through audible, and if you are interested in diving into this collection then I highly recommend taking the audio route! Every story is enhanced by the audio performances, and I am sure that I rated […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fiction, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: Adenrele Ojo, african diaspora, amazon original stories, Amazon Originals, andtheIToldYouSos, Black Stars, Black Stars collection, black voices, Brian Tyree Henry, C.T. Rwizi, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, djinn, feminism, Indya Moore, Islam, LeVar Burton, lgtbqia, Nalo Hopkinson, Naomi Ackie, nisi shawl, Nnedi Okorafor, Nyambi Nyambi, religious extremism, technology, timbuktu, tradition, Victor LaValle

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR14 Review No:13 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction · Tags: Adenrele Ojo, african diaspora, amazon original stories, Amazon Originals, andtheIToldYouSos, Black Stars, Black Stars collection, black voices, Brian Tyree Henry, C.T. Rwizi, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, djinn, feminism, Indya Moore, Islam, LeVar Burton, lgtbqia, Nalo Hopkinson, Naomi Ackie, nisi shawl, Nnedi Okorafor, Nyambi Nyambi, religious extremism, technology, timbuktu, tradition, Victor LaValle ·
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There is beauty to be found in the melting snow and McDonalds wrappers

Little Foxes Took Up Matches by Katya Kazbek

February 6, 2022 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

Mitya is not good at math, as you can see. But he’s good at imagination. Mitya is utterly convinced that no one has ever looked at two halves long enough, or attentively enough. Mitya has some stories for you. Much like Mitya himself, this novel contains multitudes. Katya Kazbek, who often works as a translator, holds the door open for the curious reader with snippets of fairy tales. Sometimes these tales are her takes on mythology, and sometimes they are the mythology of being a […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: andtheIToldYouSos, ARC, bildungsroman, coming-of-age, fall of communism, folklore, galley, intergenerational trauma, Ivan Bilibin, Katya Kazbek, Koschei, Leshy, lgtbqia, magical realism, mythology, Russia, Russian folklore, tin house, tin house galley club, USSR, Vasilisa

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR14 Review No:6 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: andtheIToldYouSos, ARC, bildungsroman, coming-of-age, fall of communism, folklore, galley, intergenerational trauma, Ivan Bilibin, Katya Kazbek, Koschei, Leshy, lgtbqia, magical realism, mythology, Russia, Russian folklore, tin house, tin house galley club, USSR, Vasilisa ·
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I had to start this book over again four times before I could get into it, but it was worth it in the end.

The Witness for the Dead (The Goblin Emperor, #2) by Katherine Addison

September 1, 2021 by narfna Leave a Comment

You’ve really got to give this one a minute. Similarly to the way I felt about Addison’s first novel (under this penname at least) The Goblin Emperor, the names and the naming system and the worldbuilding are A LOT. Unlike with The Goblin Emperor, there is no glossary, and we are not joining a world as the fish out of water along with the main character like we were with Maia in the previous book. Our main character here, Thara Celehar, a Witness for the […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Mystery Tagged With: #fantasy, katherine addison, lgtbqia, mystery, speculative, the goblin emperor, the witness for the dead

narfna's CBR13 Review No:120 · Genres: Fantasy, Mystery · Tags: #fantasy, katherine addison, lgtbqia, mystery, speculative, the goblin emperor, the witness for the dead ·
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