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The five purposes of prayer were taught to be service, supplication, gratitude, divination, and atonement, and it was gratitude Penric chose now.

Knot of Shadows by Lois McMaster Bujold

December 12, 2022 by Emmalita Leave a Comment

I’ve enjoyed the Penric and Desdemona series enormously over the past 3 weeks. I will circle back around and review the installments I have not yet reviewed in the new year. I raced through the last 6 and they certainly deserve a reread. I think my favorite thing about the series is that it is in many ways an investigative procedural – Pen and Des investigate things and get in and out of situations without there being an over-arching antagonist or a need to save […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: advance reader copy, Knot of Shadows, lois mcmaster bujold, NetGalley, Penric and Desdemona

Emmalita's CBR14 Review No:142 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: advance reader copy, Knot of Shadows, lois mcmaster bujold, NetGalley, Penric and Desdemona ·
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Finally visiting the World of the 5 Gods

Penric’s Demon by Lois McMaster Bujold

Penric and the Shaman by Lois McMaster Bujold

Penric’s Fox by Lois McMaster Bujold

December 6, 2022 by Emmalita 2 Comments

Bothari43 has been singing the praises of Lois McMaster Bujold for some time and she, and a couple of other people, have given me various Bujold books, which I have not read. I don’t know why. I believe Bothari43 when she tells me I will like the books, but some part of me, I don’t know, hates joy? I become overwhelmed with anxiety that I will fail people by not loving the books as much as they do? Anyway, I finally bit the bullet, sort […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: lois mcmaster bujold, Penric and Desdemona, penric and the shaman, penric's demon, penric's fox, The World of the 5 Gods

Emmalita's CBR14 Review No:136 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: lois mcmaster bujold, Penric and Desdemona, penric and the shaman, penric's demon, penric's fox, The World of the 5 Gods ·
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Give Me a Happy Ending Every TIme

Prisoner on Limnos by Lois McMaster Bujold

August 28, 2022 by sabian30 Leave a Comment

This book concludes the Penric/Desdemona novella series and ends as expected but wraps everything up in a very satisfactory manner. Not only do we have the ongoing story of Penric and his unrequited love for Nikys becoming requited, but we also have him broaching an impregnable fortress to save his potential mother-in-law. In Orbas, Ny’s brother, Adelis, has gone off to fight a war for his new lord, leaving Nikys as a lady-in-waiting and poor Penric packing to return to his homeland as ordered by […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: Desdemona, epic fantasy, lois mcmaster bujold, Nikys, Penric

sabian30's CBR14 Review No:26 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: Desdemona, epic fantasy, lois mcmaster bujold, Nikys, Penric ·
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Some

The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Rizzio by Denise Mina

This way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen by Tadeusz Borowski

Being There by Jerzy Kosinski

Hits and Misses by Simon Rich

Proto Zoa by Lois McMaster Bujold

The Last Days of August by Jon Ronson

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: Or, How Capitalism Works - and How It Fails by Yanis Varoufakis

August 3, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

CBR14Bingo – Shadow – In the novel, even though it’s ostensibly about the “Buffalo Bill” killings, Hannibal Lecter is always there and always present in mind. – Silence of the Lambs – 3/5 Stars This is a book that for some godforsaken reason my seventh grade English teacher not only let me read for a class assignment but also let me make a stick-figure puppet theater for key scenes. The early 1990s were the Wild Wild West truly. It’s an interesting book that is mostly […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Antoine de Saint-Exupery, cbr14bingo, Claire Keegan, denise mina, elephant, Jerzy Kosinski, Jon Ronson, lois mcmaster bujold, shadow, simon rich, Tadeusz Borowski, Thomas Harris, Yanis Varoufakis

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:430 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Antoine de Saint-Exupery, cbr14bingo, Claire Keegan, denise mina, elephant, Jerzy Kosinski, Jon Ronson, lois mcmaster bujold, shadow, simon rich, Tadeusz Borowski, Thomas Harris, Yanis Varoufakis ·
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Who the Heck is Mira?

Mira's Last Dance by Lois McMaster Bujold

July 18, 2022 by sabian30 Leave a Comment

First of all, this is the fourth book in Ms. Bujold’s Penric and Desdemona series. I was bewildered by the format. It’s a small book, barely 150 pages, 8 chapters, and written in very large type. I wondered if it was a YA novel, but when I read the cover, I saw it was “a fantasy novella.” Why she didn’t consolidate the six stories into two normal-sized novels, I don’t know. Possibly because each story is separate and independent. Whatever the format, this is typical […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: lois mcmaster bujold, magician, Penric, Penric and Desdemona, strong female characters, surgeon

sabian30's CBR14 Review No:23 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: lois mcmaster bujold, magician, Penric, Penric and Desdemona, strong female characters, surgeon ·
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Penric to the Rescue

Penric's Mission by Lois McMaster Bujold

July 18, 2022 by sabian30 1 Comment

One of my favorite authors, Lois McMaster Bujold, has written a series of novellas about Penric and Desdemona, a wizard and a demon who help people needing the services of wizards and demons. Penric, tall, handsome, and charming, is just what a young widow named Nikys needs when her brother, General Adelis is accused of treason and blinded by boiling vinegar. Penric, an secret sorcerer and physician, posed as a simple courier when he provided the documents showing Adelis had sought employment in a neighboring […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: Hero, lois mcmaster bujold, magician, Penric, strong female characters

sabian30's CBR14 Review No:22 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: Hero, lois mcmaster bujold, magician, Penric, strong female characters ·
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