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I didn’t love it.

The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi

June 12, 2022 by ingres77 Leave a Comment

I love John Scalzi. From Old Man’s War to Fuzzy Nation to The Dispatchers. I haven’t loved everything he’s done (Zoe’s Tale and the Interdependency series come to mind), but I generally look forward to everything he’s written. I also love kaiju. Or, at least, the idea of kaiju. I was excited to see Pacific Rim when that came out, until I actually saw it. And I loved Godzilla movies when I was a kid. So there was an inevitability to this book when I […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: 2020, john scalzi, pandemic, The Kaiju Preservation Society

ingres77's CBR14 Review No:6 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: 2020, john scalzi, pandemic, The Kaiju Preservation Society ·
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May 2022 Leftovers

Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

Hollywood Godfather: My Life in the Movies and the Mob by Gianni Russo

Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier by Mark Frost

Clark and Division by Naomi Hirahara

American Tabloid by James Ellroy

Hot Springs by Stephen Hunter

Pizza Girl by Jean Kyoung Frazier

Little Secrets by Jennifer Hillier

Dead Soon Enough by Steph Cha

Bullet Train by Kōtarō Isaka

June 1, 2022 by Jake Leave a Comment

Here are the books I read in May 2022 that I didn’t get to give a full review for whatever reason. I read a lot of authors of AAPI descent; their books were all wonderful in their own respective ways… Sea of Tranquility **** Unquestionably a metacommentary on the author’s Station Eleven success in the shadow of Covid-19, it’s a beautifully written reflection on finding peace and contentment in the uncertainties of life. I don’t know that I enjoyed it as much as others did given […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Fiction, Mystery, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: #memoir, #Science Fiction, American Tabloid, Arkansas, Bullet Train, Chicago, Clark and Division, covid, Dead Soon Enough, Emily St. John Mandel, Gianni Russo, historical fiction, Hollywood Godfather, Hot Springs, James Ellroy, Japan, Japanese-American, Jean Kyoung Frazier, Jennifer Hillier, JFK assassination, Juniper Song, Kōtarō Isaka, LGBTQIA, Little Secrets, los angeles, mafia, Mark Frost, mystery, Naomi Hirahara, pandemic, Pizza Girl, Sea of Tranquility, Seattle, Steph Cha, Stephen Hunter, the godfather, thriller, tv, twin peaks

Jake's CBR14 Review No:95 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Fiction, Mystery, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Suspense · Tags: #memoir, #Science Fiction, American Tabloid, Arkansas, Bullet Train, Chicago, Clark and Division, covid, Dead Soon Enough, Emily St. John Mandel, Gianni Russo, historical fiction, Hollywood Godfather, Hot Springs, James Ellroy, Japan, Japanese-American, Jean Kyoung Frazier, Jennifer Hillier, JFK assassination, Juniper Song, Kōtarō Isaka, LGBTQIA, Little Secrets, los angeles, mafia, Mark Frost, mystery, Naomi Hirahara, pandemic, Pizza Girl, Sea of Tranquility, Seattle, Steph Cha, Stephen Hunter, the godfather, thriller, tv, twin peaks ·
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MASTERPIECE.

Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

April 27, 2022 by andtheIToldYouSos 7 Comments

I was originally tempted to just post this whole novel as one giant (and perfect) quotation. We knew it was coming but we behaved inconsistently. We stocked up on supplies-just in case-but sent our children to school, because how do you get any work done with the kids at home? (We were still thinking in terms of getting work done. The most shocking thing in retrospect was the degree to which all of us completely missed the point.) One day, when we look back at […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: autofiction, Emily St. John Mandel, Illness, last night in montreal, metafiction, multiverse, pandemic, Station Eleven, The Glass Hotel, Time, time travel

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR14 Review No:26 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: autofiction, Emily St. John Mandel, Illness, last night in montreal, metafiction, multiverse, pandemic, Station Eleven, The Glass Hotel, Time, time travel ·
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Let’s Save the Endangered Walking Nuclear Dinosaurs

The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi

April 22, 2022 by CoffeeShopReader 1 Comment

I have to admit, I didn’t especially enjoy the only other novel by John Scalzi that I read (Redshirts) so I was hesitant about The Kaiju Preservation Society, but the premise was just too good to not at least give it a chance. The basic gist is that there are parallel worlds to our own Earth, and one them is home to kaiju, basically nuclear powered dinosaurs the size of mountains; once when one accidentally got through the barrier between worlds, someone who saw it […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: #Science Fiction, adventure, Godzilla, john scalzi, Kaiju, pandemic, The Kaiju Preservation Society

CoffeeShopReader's CBR14 Review No:31 · Genres: Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: #Science Fiction, adventure, Godzilla, john scalzi, Kaiju, pandemic, The Kaiju Preservation Society ·
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There is a Forced Proximity Romance here, but there’s also lots of things I cared less about.

Lockdown on London Lane by Beth Reekles

April 20, 2022 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

I have been rabidly on the hunt for Lockdown on London Lane since January, having requested it from any library source I possibly could. It eventually arrived to me in early April and in the middle of a bunch of other things (and other books) I blew through it. Was I captivated? No. Did I skim a bit? Yes, but by design that’s a thing that can be done without losing the plot. Did it give me what I was hoping it would? Yes, I […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: Beth Reekles, forced proximity, lockdown on london lane, multiple narratives, pandemic, there's only one bed

faintingviolet's CBR14 Review No:32 · Genres: Romance · Tags: Beth Reekles, forced proximity, lockdown on london lane, multiple narratives, pandemic, there's only one bed ·
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“It’s not unlike filtration, a move that blatant, deliberate. “

Sleep Donation by Karen Russell

December 12, 2021 by andtheIToldYouSos 4 Comments

In the near-future, we lucky Americans are eyeball-deep in a new terror: we can’t sleep. Every day, thousands more become unable to reach REM. They die after days of restlessness. The only thing that can help? Donations of sleep from “healthy” dreamers. Not unlike a blood drive, people like Trish Edgewater are cold-calling sleepers, begging them to give some of their life to the lifeless. Etiquette is a powerful programming, however, and easily exploitable. I sneeze. He sneezes back language at me, reflexive generosity: “Bless […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: creeping dread, empathy, illustrated, Insomnia, Karen Russell, near future, novella, pandemic, sci-fi, sleep, speculative ficiton

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR13 Review No:79 · Genres: Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: creeping dread, empathy, illustrated, Insomnia, Karen Russell, near future, novella, pandemic, sci-fi, sleep, speculative ficiton ·
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