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this book has been kicking around for 30ish years and I just picked it up NOW?!

Possession by A.S. Byatt

April 28, 2021 by andtheIToldYouSos 4 Comments

…and it’s been sitting in my own collection for a good decade or so? How did I keep stepping around this one? This book was written for me- or at least the me of ten years ago. DEFINITLEY the me of twenty years ago. 14-year-old-me would have swooned myself into an early grave with this one! A youngish academic is sinking further and further into classic British gloom. He’s in a dead relationship, putting in time in a dead-end job, researching crumbs on a long-dead […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History Tagged With: A.S. Byatt, academia, fake literary canon, historical fiction, Love, meta fiction, mystery, Romance, romantic poetry, victorians

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR13 Review No:38 · Genres: Fiction, History · Tags: A.S. Byatt, academia, fake literary canon, historical fiction, Love, meta fiction, mystery, Romance, romantic poetry, victorians ·
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This book is like a golden poppy growing from the manure of the last 12 months. Its existence makes me smile.

Moonflower Murders by Anthony Horowitz

February 28, 2021 by KimMiE" 3 Comments

I was surprised when I heard that Anthony Horowitz was releasing a sequel to Magpie Murders, one of the most delightful books I read in 2019. That mystery-within-a-mystery was clever, well-constructed, and utterly entertaining, but how could Horowitz plausibly make that format work again using the same characters? To my tremendous joy, Horowitz has constructed an equally triumphant (maybe even better?) sequel. At the start of Moonflower Murders, former publisher Susan Ryeland is living in Crete, trying to succeed in the boutique hotel business along […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: Anthony Horowitz, CBR13, KimMiE", meta fiction, mystery

KimMiE"'s CBR13 Review No:9 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: Anthony Horowitz, CBR13, KimMiE", meta fiction, mystery ·
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It turns out that sometimes having a background in English literature pays off

The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep by H.G. Parry

November 22, 2020 by Malin 3 Comments

Official book description: For his entire life, Charley Sutherland has concealed a magical ability he can’t quite control: he can bring characters from books into the real world. His older brother, Rob – a young lawyer with an utterly normal life – hopes that this strange family secret will disappear with disuse, and he will be discharged from his duty of protecting Charley and the real world from each other.   But then, literary characters start causing trouble in their city, making threats about destroying […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: #fantasy, cbr12, Charles Dickens, classical literature, h.g. parry, Malin, meta fiction, New Zealand, the unlikely escape of uriah heep

Malin's CBR12 Review No:78 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery · Tags: #fantasy, cbr12, Charles Dickens, classical literature, h.g. parry, Malin, meta fiction, New Zealand, the unlikely escape of uriah heep ·
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The fridged women speak.

The Refrigerator Monologues by Catherynne M. Valente

January 29, 2020 by narfna Leave a Comment

The Refrigerator Monologues is a feminist response to the way women are treated in superhero comics. It’s a short read, a novella really, at only 147 pages, but it packs a punch. Riffing on both the stage play The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler, and Gail Simone’s website Women in Refrigerators (which coined the term “fridging” for any female character who dies in order to further the plotline or character arc of a man), Valente’s book features six women whose lives were reduced to subplots […]

Filed Under: Short Stories, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: Annie Wu, Catherynne M. Valente, Comics, illustrated, meta fiction, narfna, novella, the refrigerator monologues

narfna's CBR12 Review No:16 · Genres: Short Stories, Speculative Fiction · Tags: Annie Wu, Catherynne M. Valente, Comics, illustrated, meta fiction, narfna, novella, the refrigerator monologues ·
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Tom Taylor’s journey comes to an end

The Unwritten, vol 10: War Stories and The Unwritten, vol 11: Apocalypse by Mike Carey and Peter Gross

December 27, 2017 by Malin 1 Comment

Tom Taylor is trying to find his way back to his friends, moving through a number of children’s stories. Even when he’s reunited with his storyteller father, Wilson Taylor, who by writing a popular fantasy series where the main character shared Tom’s name, pretty much gave him the abilities to move through all manner of works of fiction, and his friends, the world is in chaos, as the Leviathan, the source of all the stories in the world, is gravely wounded. The boundaries between stories […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, History, Mystery Tagged With: adventure, apocalypse, cbr9, Graphic Novel, Malin, meta fiction, Mike Carey, Peter Gross, stories, The Unwritten, war stories

Malin's CBR9 Review No:120 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, History, Mystery · Tags: adventure, apocalypse, cbr9, Graphic Novel, Malin, meta fiction, Mike Carey, Peter Gross, stories, The Unwritten, war stories ·
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A pretty disappointing crossover – not sorry I waited so long to read it

The Unwritten, vol 9: The Unwritten Fables by Mike Carey, Bill Willingham, Peter Gross and Mark Buckingham

December 23, 2017 by Malin Leave a Comment

Tommy Taylor has been separated from his friends and is desperately trying to find a way back to them. He also needs to stop the ancient adversary, Pullman, from killing the legendary Leviathan once and for all, but is waylaid on his journey when the various witches and magical personages of Fabletown attempt to summon the greatest mage the worlds have ever seen, in order to stop the menace threatening their own realms. Tommy is pretty sure he’s not the person they’re looking for, but […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: Bill Willingham, cbr9, crossover, fantasy, Graphic Novel, Malin, Mark Buckingham, meta fiction, Mike Carey, Peter Gross, The Unwritten, the unwritten fables

Malin's CBR9 Review No:115 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: Bill Willingham, cbr9, crossover, fantasy, Graphic Novel, Malin, Mark Buckingham, meta fiction, Mike Carey, Peter Gross, The Unwritten, the unwritten fables ·
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