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Kink: Stories by R. O. Kwon, Garth Greenwell

Terminal Boredom by Izumi Suzuki

A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers

Sword Stone Table: Old Legends, New Voices by Swapna Krishna, Jenn Northington

Welcome to Night Vale by Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor

Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch by Rivka Galchen

August 29, 2021 by andtheIToldYouSos 5 Comments

Hey y’all- long time, no read! I took some time off from reviewing while on vacation, then let vacation mind take over all of my non-work mind and found myself in a reviewing hole. Then, work swallowed me whole. I started writing this on August 9th. Just finishing it now on the 29th-Cait Also, I haven’t been reading reviews here either, so be prepared for a wave of comments coming your way! Good news: I truly enjoyed all seven of these books. One was a […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Fantasy, Fiction, History, Horror, Romance, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: audio, Becky Chambers, cbr13bingo, Ernest Hemingway, favorites, Garth Greenwell, historical fiction, Izumi Suzuki, Jenn Northington, Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor, kink, monk and robot, monk and robot #1, mythic, new series, Night Vale, pandemic, people, podcast, R. O. Kwon, R.O. Kwon, Garth Greenwell, re-read, rec'd, retellings, Rivka Galchen, shelfie, Swapna Krishna, Swapna Krishna, Jenn Northington, they/she/he, vacation reads, Welcome to Night Vale

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR13 Review No:75 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Fantasy, Fiction, History, Horror, Romance, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction, Suspense · Tags: audio, Becky Chambers, cbr13bingo, Ernest Hemingway, favorites, Garth Greenwell, historical fiction, Izumi Suzuki, Jenn Northington, Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor, kink, monk and robot, monk and robot #1, mythic, new series, Night Vale, pandemic, people, podcast, R. O. Kwon, R.O. Kwon, Garth Greenwell, re-read, rec'd, retellings, Rivka Galchen, shelfie, Swapna Krishna, Swapna Krishna, Jenn Northington, they/she/he, vacation reads, Welcome to Night Vale ·
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The Big Nothing

The Incendiaries by R. O. Kwon

August 5, 2019 by blauracke Leave a Comment

A university student who blames herself for her mother’s death becomes more and more involved in a dangerous cult’s activities that begin to veer ever closer towards terrorism. There are some big topics being tackled here, be it fanaticism, cults, the loss of faith, or the search for some greater purpose. Not one of those topics, however, is being handled with the care and precision they warrant, on the contrary, everything is just mixed together and treated in the most superficial way. The characters have […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbr11bingo, listicle, R. O. Kwon

blauracke's CBR11 Review No:36 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr11bingo, listicle, R. O. Kwon ·
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I mean, I’m incensed by how not good it was?

The Incendiaries by R. O. Kwon

January 3, 2019 by lowercasesee 3 Comments

This may be my biggest pet peeve in literature – writing dialogue sans quotation marks. I’ve ranted about it time and time again, because it doesn’t make you edgy, it makes you exhausting. Plus this book felt like a more boring knockoff of The Girls, by Emma Cline, which I also hated. Mostly because of the cult stuff. What happens is, I look over these lists of “best books of XYZ” and chuck them all on my hold list at the library because why not, forgetting […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: R. O. Kwon

lowercasesee's CBR11 Review No:2 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: R. O. Kwon ·
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