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> Tag: Rivka Galchen

So many monsters!

Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch: A Novel by Rivka Galchen

August 11, 2022 by ElCicco 2 Comments

Cbr14bingo Monster The cover and the title of this book got my attention, and then I read the blurb. Did you know that in 1618 Johannes Kepler’s mother was accused of being a witch? (Read more here, here and here). Yes, that Johannes Kepler, the mathematician and astronomer whose works were integral to the Scientific Revolution! Author Rivka Galchen, a medical doctor by training, took this fascinating piece of information and imagined the events surrounding Katharina Kepler’s denunciation and trial. The novel is told from […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History Tagged With: cbr14, cbr14bingo, ElCicco, everyone knows your mother is a witch, Fiction, historical fiction, Monster, Rivka Galchen

ElCicco's CBR14 Review No:34 · Genres: Fiction, History · Tags: cbr14, cbr14bingo, ElCicco, everyone knows your mother is a witch, Fiction, historical fiction, Monster, Rivka Galchen ·
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“You can’t discover what’s true based on how many people think it’s true.”

Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch by Rivka Galchen

February 7, 2022 by narfna 5 Comments

I’m not going to let this excellent book be the one that let me get behind in reviews in 2022. I’ve been too intimidated to start writing this review because the book was so smart, so I sat down just now and decided I was going to type until a review came out. So that’s what’s happening here. Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch is just as cheeky as its title would imply. The book is (darkly) funny, and the story of Katharina Kepler […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fiction, History Tagged With: audiobooks, everyone knows your mother is a witch, historical fiction, narfna, Natasha Soudek, Rivka Galchen

narfna's CBR14 Review No:22 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction, History · Tags: audiobooks, everyone knows your mother is a witch, historical fiction, narfna, Natasha Soudek, Rivka Galchen ·
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Witch Hunt!

Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch by Rivka Galchen

December 18, 2021 by elderberrywine Leave a Comment

The mix of modern crime procedurals and the deep stupidity of superstition just didn’t click for me. Katherina Kepler is a war widow (or at least she assumes so, since her husband never came back), and one of her sons is Johannes Kepler, authority on the newly discovered revolutionary laws of planetary motion.  She herself happens to be an authority on herbal remedies, but not everyone in the village has confidence in her treatments.  The random cow has a bad spell, and apparently at some […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, History Tagged With: Kepler but not really, Medieval Times, Or not, Rivka Galchen, true crime, witchcraft

elderberrywine's CBR13 Review No:22 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, History · Tags: Kepler but not really, Medieval Times, Or not, Rivka Galchen, true crime, witchcraft ·
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Everyone Knows your Mother is a Witch – Rivka Galchen (2021) and 1919 by Eve Ewing (2019)

Everyone Knows your Mother is a Waitch by Rivka Galchen

1919 by Eve Ewing

September 8, 2021 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Everyone Knows your Mother is a Witch It’s fair to look at this cover, font, and image and make some assumptions about what you’re about to read. I had the joy and probably making those assumptions, but not actually looking up what this book was about. I had read Rivka Galchen’s pillow book book and really enjoyed it so I was always already going to read this one. While the presentation of the book might not match its exact subject, the tone surely does. It’s […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Poetry Tagged With: Eve Ewing, Rivka Galchen

vel veeter's CBR13 Review No:382 · Genres: Fiction, Poetry · Tags: Eve Ewing, Rivka Galchen ·
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playing catch-up while playing bingo!

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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