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When Lovecraft dons a Gimpsuit

The Labyrinth Index by Charles Stross

July 31, 2026 by LittlePlat Leave a Comment

The Laundry is going stateside again—and I’m going to be dipping into spoilers again. Quite a lot in fact. Sorry. But look at all the blue hyperlinks; I’m making so many callbacks here! So about those spoilers; at the start of The Labyrinth Index, it is clear that Britain has fallen. There was no last minute mulligan after the last book’s events. The Senior Auditor of the Laundry sold the agency and the UK both out to the Black Pharaoh. And now Fabian Everyman—also known […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Horror Tagged With: #fantasy, cbr18bingo, charles stross, Clowns, crunchy and good with ketchup, gimp-clowns, gimps, Laundry Files, Lovecraft, POTUS, SysAdmin, vampires

LittlePlat's CBR18 Review No:20 · Genres: Fantasy, Horror · Tags: #fantasy, cbr18bingo, charles stross, Clowns, crunchy and good with ketchup, gimp-clowns, gimps, Laundry Files, Lovecraft, POTUS, SysAdmin, vampires ·
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To Do And Do Not

A Promised Land by President Barack Obama

November 29, 2020 by Jake 1 Comment

It’s tough to put aside my feelings on President Barack Obama and his politics and just rate this on its merits alone but I’ll try. I feel like I was capable of doing so with Hillary Rodham Clinton’s What Happened, though Obama obtains far more space in my imagination, having served as President and having been the most historic one of my lifetime. This isn’t as candid as HRC’s book but it’s candid enough. Obama starts from his childhood years, goes quickly through his early time […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir Tagged With: #history, #memoir, A Promised Land, POTUS, President Barack Obama

Jake's CBR12 Review No:177 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: #history, #memoir, A Promised Land, POTUS, President Barack Obama ·
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