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Next time, I’ll just read The Stand again.

Wanderers by Chuck Wendig

January 2, 2020 by scootsa1000 5 Comments

This book had everything going for it, including multiple comparisons to The Stand, and a massive recommendation from the mothership. I started it back in August, thinking I could whip through it for the Pajiba Says bingo square, and well, I just finished it yesterday. I was…not a fan. I didn’t hate it, but I was incredibly let down by it. The story starts out strong: across the world, sleepwalkers start marching toward an unknown destination. Their numbers start off small, and as the group […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: cbr12, chuck wendig, pajiba, Scootsa1000, the stand, wanderers

scootsa1000's CBR12 Review No:1 · Genres: Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: cbr12, chuck wendig, pajiba, Scootsa1000, the stand, wanderers ·
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Final Bingo Post – Bingos 9 and 10 with Karina Longworth

Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes's Hollywood by Karina Longworth

October 30, 2019 by faintingviolet 2 Comments

I’ve been a fan of Karina Longworth’s podcast You Must Remember This since 2015, and when Longworth announced she was writing a book about the Howard Hughes era of Hollywood focusing on the women who came into contact with him and telling their stories I was intrigued. After listening last year to the season “The Seduced” which served as an extended trailer for this book as well as a place for information that didn’t fit into the book (which at over 500 pages certainly has […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: cbr11bingo, classic hollywood, faintingviolet, Howard Hughes, Karina Longworth, pajiba, Seduction

faintingviolet's CBR11 Review No:54 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: cbr11bingo, classic hollywood, faintingviolet, Howard Hughes, Karina Longworth, pajiba, Seduction ·
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Stars Hollow meets the detective novel

Still Life by Louise Penny

October 24, 2019 by Wanderlustful Leave a Comment

Still Life is the first Inspector Gamache novel in Louise Penny’s series, and for me it’s a backtrack- I started with the second novel, Dead Cold (alternate title: A Fatal Grace), back in February.  Still Life introduces us to all the main characters that show up in the later books, including the town of Three Pines and its close-knit community members.  (For such a quaint and friendly town, I get the feeling there are a lot murderers in Three Pines’ midst, if the length of […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: #detectivefiction, Canada, cbr11bingo, Louise Penny, mystery, pajiba, Still Life

Wanderlustful's CBR11 Review No:47 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: #detectivefiction, Canada, cbr11bingo, Louise Penny, mystery, pajiba, Still Life ·
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At the Heart of a Monster

The Alienist by Caleb Carr

October 20, 2019 by blauracke Leave a Comment

In 1896, a serial killer targets boys who work as prostitutes in the seedy parts of New York City. A controversial psychiatrist, then called an alienist, and a reporter gather an investigative team in order to identify the killer through the usage of scientific methods like forensics and an early form of profiling. I actually thought that I’d like this more because on the surface it has all the ingredients that I usually enjoy, like a well-researched historical background, cameos by a parade of historical […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: Caleb Carr, cbr11bingo, pajiba

blauracke's CBR11 Review No:52 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: Caleb Carr, cbr11bingo, pajiba ·
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It was magic, until it suddenly wasn’t: CBR Bingo – Pajiba

Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

October 10, 2019 by Dome'Loki Leave a Comment

Ever since Daisy Jones and The Six was released, it has been on my radar, in particular because it was highly praised on my two favorite pop culture websites Pajiba and Lainey Gossip .  When CBR Bingo was announced, I instantly knew what my Pajiba square book would be.  My first title for this review was, “What I imagined the 70s rock n’ roll scene was like”, but while Daisy Jones and The Six is a great time capsule into that era, that is not what the […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: 1970s, cbr11, cbr11bingo, Dome'Loki, drugs, Fiction, fictional biography, interview, pajiba, rock n' roll

Dome'Loki's CBR11 Review No:33 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: 1970s, cbr11, cbr11bingo, Dome'Loki, drugs, Fiction, fictional biography, interview, pajiba, rock n' roll ·
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