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Magical Historical Fiction

The Antidote by Karen Russel

April 15, 2026 by G.D. Giant 2 Comments

From the afterword/Lost Land Acknowledgement by Dr. James Riding In: “The Antidote uses fantastical conceits to illuminate the holes in people’s private and collective memories, the willful omissions passed down generation to generation, and the myths that have been used by the U.S. government and White settlers to justify crimes against the citizens of Native Nations and the theft of Native lands.” And the author uses those fantastical conceits very well. The Antidote is a beautifully written, sad, interesting, and clever novel. It’s a fantastic […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History Tagged With: American History, anticolonialism, historical fiction, Karen Russel, magical realism, Native Lands, Nebraska, the great depression, The Great Plains, witches

G.D. Giant's CBR18 Review No:6 · Genres: Fiction, History · Tags: American History, anticolonialism, historical fiction, Karen Russel, magical realism, Native Lands, Nebraska, the great depression, The Great Plains, witches ·
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Every Last Fear, and the People Affected by True Crime Entertainment

Every Last Fear by Alex Finlay

July 15, 2021 by msvreadsbooks 1 Comment

This is the entry for the “Free!” square in bingo. I borrowed it 🙂 This was a really fun book to read. Horribly depressing subject matter, but there were some twists and turns. I won’t say the mystery is impenetrable as it becomes fairly clear about halfway through, but the way the events unfold is very interesting.  Matt Pine is a student at NYU who is dealing with the aftermath of a true crime documentary about his brother, Danny Pine, and the murder of Danny’s […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: Alex Finlay, bingofreesquare, cbr13bingo, crime, familicide, mexico, murder, Nebraska, new york, true crime, tulum

msvreadsbooks's CBR13 Review No:33 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: Alex Finlay, bingofreesquare, cbr13bingo, crime, familicide, mexico, murder, Nebraska, new york, true crime, tulum ·
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And when Eleanor smiled, something broke inside of him. Something always did.

October 2, 2018 by Dusty Highway 4 Comments

CBR10Bingo: Home Sweet Home Growing up in Nebraska, Willa Cather was required reading. I loved loved loved My Ántonia in junior high, but I soured on her after reading O Pioneers! and hating the bummer of a preachy ending. When I first saw the Home Sweet Home square, I thought I might have to give one of her other books a try until I remembered I have a new favorite Nebraska author, thanks to CBR: Rainbow Rowell!  Eleanor & Park went right to my wishlist […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: #CBR10, cbr10bingo, eleanor and park, first love, Nebraska, nostalgia, Rainbow Rowell, YA fiction

Dusty Highway's CBR10 Review No:54 · Genres: Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: #CBR10, cbr10bingo, eleanor and park, first love, Nebraska, nostalgia, Rainbow Rowell, YA fiction ·
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Good ole Nebraska U

May 8, 2018 by Dusty Highway 11 Comments

This book took me completely by surprise. I mean, of course I knew I’d like it, since Rainbow Rowell is a favorite around these parts, but I had no idea it would hit so close to home. I added Fangirl to my wishlist along with a whole mess of other books at the beginning of my push to even out the male-female author ratio in my library. I knew the basic premise of the book but nothing about the author besides her gender, so when […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: #CannonballRead10, Fangirl, Fiction, LGBTQ, Nebraska, Rainbow Rowell, YA fiction, Young Adult

Dusty Highway's CBR10 Review No:25 · Genres: Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: #CannonballRead10, Fangirl, Fiction, LGBTQ, Nebraska, Rainbow Rowell, YA fiction, Young Adult ·
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An absolutely perfect little book.

October 10, 2016 by ingres77 1 Comment

I’ve made no secret of my dismissal of the romance genre. It’s not that I don’t enjoy romance, or am indifferent to love, it’s that I’ve found the heaving bosoms and overflowing adoration to be blindly fantastical and willfully dismissive of actual romance. I’ve generally avoided the genre because I’ve never thought of it as even adequately representing real world love. I know that bodice rippers aren’t all the genre has to offer, but I have never encounter romance that spoke to me. Until Rainbow […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance, Young Adult Tagged With: 1980's, Comics, Eleanor & Park, music, Nebraska, New Wave, perfection, Rainbow Rowell

ingres77's CBR8 Review No:90 · Genres: Fiction, Romance, Young Adult · Tags: 1980's, Comics, Eleanor & Park, music, Nebraska, New Wave, perfection, Rainbow Rowell ·
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A Real Love Story (in all its 80’s glory)

June 22, 2014 by Jenny S 1 Comment

This YA novel has been on my to-read list for a while and I loved it just as much as I thought I would.  Rainbow Rowell’s novel, set in the 80’s, tells the unlikely love story of Eleanor and Park, two high school students who don’t quite fit in their Nebraska high school but for very different reasons.  Park is the only Asian in his school—the son of a white father and a Korean mom, and has dealt with being “different” all his life.  Though […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: 1980's, Nebraska, young adult fiction

Jenny S's CBR6 Review No:15 · Genres: Uncategorized · Tags: 1980's, Nebraska, young adult fiction ·
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