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“Hidey ho, neighbor.” And he crossed the three feet that had been between them and slid his hands around her waist.

Chick Magnet by Emma Barry

October 4, 2022 by Emmalita 2 Comments

My heart. Emma Barry is so good. At its core, Chick Magnet is hurt/comfort. Nic and Will each start the book in a bad place and though they are in no condition to start a new relationship, they offer each other comfort and understanding. The deep emotion and drama of hurt/comfort is well balanced by the joy of chickens, kittens, friendships, and a variety of banters that range from funny to steamy. Nic has moved to Yagerstown, Virginia with her flock of chickens after being […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: advance reader copy, Chick Magnet, chickens, Emma Barry, gaslighting, modern dinosaurs, NetGalley, pandemic

Emmalita's CBR14 Review No:106 · Genres: Romance · Tags: advance reader copy, Chick Magnet, chickens, Emma Barry, gaslighting, modern dinosaurs, NetGalley, pandemic ·
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Grief and Hope – the human experience

How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu

September 2, 2022 by Mobius_Walker Leave a Comment

BINGO – New This is going to be a difficult book to summarize because I would not consider it a novel. It’s closer to a collection of short stories, but that’s not quite right either. It’s something in between. There’s a long form improv format in which the audience sees a scene with Person A and Person B. Something in that scene sparks an idea for a scene tangentially connected between Person B and Person C. Then a connected scene between Person C and D, […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: cbr14bingo, climate change, pandemic, Sequoia Nagamatsu, Speculative Fiction

Mobius_Walker's CBR14 Review No:25 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: cbr14bingo, climate change, pandemic, Sequoia Nagamatsu, Speculative Fiction ·
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“This is the strange lesson of living in a pandemic: life can be tranquil in the face of death.”

Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

August 11, 2022 by ardaigle Leave a Comment

Cannonball Read Book Square: Funky In one word: Tether Reading St. John Mandel I’m reminded of the scene in the AMAZING movie Booksmart, wherein two college-bound BFFs are determined to make up for lost time and live it up the night before their high school graduation. In one of my favorite scenes, best friends Molly and Amy are getting ready to go out and hyping each other up for their respective outfits, aggressively hurling positive affirmations at each other. “Who gave you permission to take […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: cbr14bingo, Emily St. John Mandel, pandemic, Sea of Tranquility, time travel

ardaigle's CBR14 Review No:34 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: cbr14bingo, Emily St. John Mandel, pandemic, Sea of Tranquility, time travel ·
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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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