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“It’s true on a technicality. I’m being held unlawfully. I didn’t commit the crime for which I’ve been convicted. But if you look at it another way, I deserve to be here. I did a lot of other shitty things, for which I wasn’t punished.”

The Family Chao by Lan Samantha Chang

February 10, 2023 by narfna Leave a Comment

I wish I would have known this was a retelling of The Brothers Karamazov before I purchased this book and got all excited about it. I probably never would have picked it up. There is a reason that I have never read any of Dostoyevsky’s stuff (or Tolstoy for that matter). The Family Chao follows the titular family, owners of a Chinese restaurant in a small town in America. The parents of the family are immigrants from China, and there are three sons. When the […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: Chinese American, family drama, Lan Samantha Chang, lit-fic, literary fiction, literary mystery, mystery, narfna, retellings, The Brothers Karamazov, The Family Chao

narfna's CBR15 Review No:23 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: Chinese American, family drama, Lan Samantha Chang, lit-fic, literary fiction, literary mystery, mystery, narfna, retellings, The Brothers Karamazov, The Family Chao ·
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An extremely unexpected new favorite.

Liar, Dreamer, Thief by Maria Dong

February 2, 2023 by narfna Leave a Comment

This book spoke to me. Katrina Kim is the most lovable, vulnerable mess of a human. I would find it concerning how much I identified with her* if I wasn’t too busy enjoying every bonkers moment of this book. I was worried as I approached the end, given how I’d lost my mind over it so far, that the ending wouldn’t do Katrina justice, but I shouldn’t have been worried. I cried happy tears and felt much resolution. *I have OCD and she does too, […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: AAPI, audiobooks, dark humor, Hannah Choi, Liar Dreamer Thief, lit-fic, literary mystery, Maria Dong, Mental Health, mystery, narfna, neurodivergent protagonist, OCD, thriller

narfna's CBR15 Review No:17 · Genres: Audiobooks, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: AAPI, audiobooks, dark humor, Hannah Choi, Liar Dreamer Thief, lit-fic, literary mystery, Maria Dong, Mental Health, mystery, narfna, neurodivergent protagonist, OCD, thriller ·
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CBR15 Passport! Book #1 – A book that is Not For Moi.

Mrs Death Misses Death by Salena Godden

January 31, 2023 by narfna 9 Comments

Oof, this was not for me. Like, so not for me that I maybe shouldn’t even be writing a review, because my brain just bounced off this after about ten pages and then just kept bouncing harder and harder. This is a speculative fiction, experimental novel by British poet Salena Godden about an anthropomorphized version of Death (here called Mrs. Death, personified by an older Black woman) and her connections to/conversations with a person called Wolf. In addition to the the prose actually feeling like […]

Filed Under: Speculative Fiction Tagged With: British literature, CBR15Passport, lit-fic, literary fiction, Mrs Death Misses Death, narfna, poetry, Salena Godden, speculative

narfna's CBR15 Review No:11 · Genres: Speculative Fiction · Tags: British literature, CBR15Passport, lit-fic, literary fiction, Mrs Death Misses Death, narfna, poetry, Salena Godden, speculative ·
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“For when it comes to strength and goodness and brilliance and gentleness and grandeur of spirit so vast that it takes one’s breath away, beauty is nothing, beauty is a mote of a mountain, beauty is a mere straw alight beside a barn on fire.”

Matrix by Lauren Groff

December 31, 2022 by narfna 2 Comments

I do, on occasion, voluntarily read lit-fic, even dare I say, get excited about it! And that is usually when there is some sort of weird hook to the premise. Here, it’s nuns. I’ve had a weird thing with nuns ever since I watched The Trouble With Angels as a child, and I can’t explain it. I think they are funny and interesting and weird, and some of them were completely demented (my mom had a nun teacher in the early 1960s who used to […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: historical fiction, lauren groff, LGBTQIA, lit-fic, literary fiction, Matrix, narfna, nuns

narfna's CBR14 Review No:255 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: historical fiction, lauren groff, LGBTQIA, lit-fic, literary fiction, Matrix, narfna, nuns ·
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“No point in thinking, you just have to get on with life. We only have one after all, we should try and do our best. We can never get it right, but we must try.”

Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

December 29, 2022 by narfna Leave a Comment

I will admit that I have been avoiding this book since it was published, but especially after I read a Sherlock fanfic one time* that was a riff on Life After Life, and which is one of the most emotionally traumatizing fics I’ve ever read, so by association I was pre-traumatized by this book. Also, one time I read the first Jackson Brodie mystery and I thought it was boring, so I thought this would be boring too. Happily, wrong on all fronts! *If you […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: British literature, historical fiction, Kate Atkinson, Life After Life, lit-fic, literary fiction, narfna, read harder challenge 2022, speculative, time loops

narfna's CBR14 Review No:242 · Genres: Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: British literature, historical fiction, Kate Atkinson, Life After Life, lit-fic, literary fiction, narfna, read harder challenge 2022, speculative, time loops ·
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“Human nature could be so hideous, but it persisted in this ugliness by insisting it was good.”

Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka

December 23, 2022 by narfna Leave a Comment

Look at me, reviewing a book I just finished yesterday*. I am determined to review all my October books in a timely fashion** so as not to make my backlog problem worse than it already is. (Sigh.) This was sort of a bummer one to start my October spooky reads on because it was all serious and stuff, no fun at all to be had here. But I can’t deny it was very well done. *But posted here in December, whoops. I finished this in […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Danya Kukafka, Fiction, lit-fic, literary crime, literary fiction, narfna, Notes on an Execution, serial killer POV

narfna's CBR14 Review No:217 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Danya Kukafka, Fiction, lit-fic, literary crime, literary fiction, narfna, Notes on an Execution, serial killer POV ·
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