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Grab a Cup of Tea and Settle Down With Our Favorite Demon-Sorcerer Duo

The Orphans of Raspay by Lois McMaster Bujold

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  Lois McMaster Bujold has released another novella set in her World of the Five Gods. And once again, she does it in such a sneaky fashion that I completely missed it! While the Five Gods series has three novels under its belt so far, Lois has been adding a number of stories to the series focused on a young man named Penric, who has become a host to a demon, who he dubbs Desdemona. Penric is a first for Desdemona – despite having close to a dozen previous hosts, she had never had the pleasure of possessing a man […]

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10/31/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:23 |

Definitely a bro-fantasy, but with far more charm (#Reader’s Choice–BINGO!)

Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames

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Having only a few hours left to finish Bingo, and not yet quite having a bingo, I’m using Reader’s Choice in lieu of True Story–because I’m not the sort of person who enjoys reading True Stories anyway. So, Bingo! (Bingo across the top row: Remix, Reader’s Choice [for True Story], Far and Away, Youths!, Reading the TBR). Several months ago, I read the highly-recommended-online Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames (also with Aquillius from my previous review, AKA my husband). We both love fantasy, and he introduced me to metal, so it seemed rather fair that we explored together a […]

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10/31/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:14 |

Last Bingo, # 8: More Rowell

Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell

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I blame faintingviolet (and crystalclear) for my new obsession with everything Rowell. I was so happily ignorant before cracking one of her books, but now I’m like an addict and I can’t get enough. I haven’t suffered from book-hangover in a very long time, but Wayward Son has me moping around wondering when book 3 is going to hit the shelves. I don’t know what to read next, I have a stack from the library that I’m sending back because everything is just paling in comparison to the Watford cast. Is this book perfect? No. If I’m being honest and true […]

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10/31/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:39 |

It was a dull and boring night…

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

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As a 10-year-old, Daniel Sempere visits a mysterious place called the ‘Cemetery of Forgotten Books’ and chooses a book by the unknown author Julián Carax. Over the years, he tries to find out more about him, only to discover that someone is searching for all of Carax’ books just to burn them, and that he himself may possess one of the last copies. This is supposed to be a gothic novel full of doomed romance, tragedy, and mystery, but in the end, it is mostly an anaemic disappointment. The characters are caricatures of themselves; the bad guy, for instance, is […]

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10/29/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:54 |

This is a man’s world

Invisible Women by Caroline Criado-Perez

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I first heard about this book when the author, Caroline Criado Perez, was interviewed on the podcast 99% Invisible.  I was intrigued from first listen and paid an exorbitant amount to order it on Amazon (US$30 plus shipping from the UK!). Perez’s book is about two things: 1) the ways in which Western societies were founded on and continue to promote ‘maleness’ as the normative centre; and 2) how maleness at the centre is not just inconvenient for women- statistically 51% of humanity- but in certain areas can be literally deadly.  She is quick to point out that society doesn’t […]

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10/24/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:45 |

Did she kill him or nah?

Silent Victim by Caroline Mitchell

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I’m writing this review and my previous one back to back.  It’s only serving to prove my previous hypothesis – I read a lot of books about people being gaslit!  I actually enjoyed this one though.  The people were much less dumb than the previous one. So we’re introduced to Emma, a “typical” wife and mother, but she has a secret.  Well, she has a few, but there’s one big one.  She murdered her art teacher that she had an “affair” with when she was fifteen.  I put affair in quotes, because it was obviously statutory rape, and he was […]

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9/23/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:37 |

“Therapy is like a toothbrush. You can’t really put it to use for anybody but yourself”

Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes

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#CBR11 Bingo: Reader’s Choice (in place of Back to School) (would also work for a Pajiba or Listicle square, as well as Summer Read) Eveleth “Evvie” (rhymes with ‘chevy’) Drake has packed the car and is about to leave her husband when she gets a phone call that he’s been in a car accident. Before she can make it to the hospital, he is dead. About a year later, everyone thinks Evvie has kept to herself, isolated in her big house, because she’s overcome with grief. She never told anyone that the town’s beloved son, a popular and charming doctor, was in […]

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9/14/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:64 |

A Good Introduction to the World of Indigenous Comics and its Creators

Moonshot: The Indigenous Comics Collection by Hope Nicholson

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CBR11 Bingo Square: Reader’s Choice (replacing: Classics) Let me begin by saying that I did indeed want to read a classic for my classics square: I really wish I could get into the old language more, but it’s such a struggle for me! And truth be told I did start reading Bram Stoker’s Dracula, but I just kept drifting and realized about a tenth of the way in that I wasn’t up to the task (so instead I connived my friends into watching the movie as a part of our weekly movie-nights Keanu-athon, and boooooy howdy does that movie make […]

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9/11/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:31 |


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