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A charming and amusing romp that greatly entertained me, even though I couldn’t care less about birds, and actually sort of fear them

The Ornithologist's Field Guide to Love by India Holton

August 18, 2024 by Malin Leave a Comment

Smart Bitches Summer Bingo: Only one bed (and horse) CBR16 Bingo: And also… (Repeat of the Bananas square, because this book fits the bill) Beth Pickering is the youngest professor of ornithology at Oxford, and she needs to really impress the faculty if she is to get tenure. She works with wealthy widow Hippolyta Quirm to try to locate and capture rare (and usually dangerous) birds. Just as they are about to capture the coveted deathwhistler, a rival ornithologist, the dashing young Professor Devon Lockley […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, History, Romance Tagged With: acadeemia, adventure, and also, Bananas, birds, CBR16, cbr16bingo, funny, historical fantasy, India Holton, Love's Academic, Malin, neuro diversity, road trip, Romance, romp, Smart Bitches, The Ornithologist's Field Guide to Love, Victorian

Malin's CBR16 Review No:50 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, History, Romance · Tags: acadeemia, adventure, and also, Bananas, birds, CBR16, cbr16bingo, funny, historical fantasy, India Holton, Love's Academic, Malin, neuro diversity, road trip, Romance, romp, Smart Bitches, The Ornithologist's Field Guide to Love, Victorian ·
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CBR15 Bingo: Strange Worlds

The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi

July 18, 2023 by Malin 1 Comment

CBR15 Bingo: Strange Worlds 15-word-review: Delivering food during the pandemic leads Jamie Gray to a monstrously exciting new career opportunity. Longer review: During the Covid-19 pandemic, Jamie Gray is working a dead-end job as a delivery driver for the very same company he got fired from. One day, when delivering food, Jamie runs into an old acquaintance, Tom, who remembers that Jamie’s thesis was on science-fiction and therefore thinks the job opportunity that KPS, the “animal rights organisation” that Tom works for might be a […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Science Fiction Tagged With: #fantasy, #Science Fiction, alternate worlds, audio book, CBR15, cbr15bingo, fun, john scalzi, Kaiju, Malin, mystery, Outland book club, romp, science, strange worlds, wil wheaton

Malin's CBR15 Review No:28 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Science Fiction · Tags: #fantasy, #Science Fiction, alternate worlds, audio book, CBR15, cbr15bingo, fun, john scalzi, Kaiju, Malin, mystery, Outland book club, romp, science, strange worlds, wil wheaton ·
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Living in a Devil Town

August 15, 2016 by Halbs 2 Comments

Flowery opining and editorial insight aside, Larry McMurtry’s The Last Picture Show is a great book full of truth. It’s funny, sad, and sometimes mean. Most of all, to me, it’s true. LPS finds the heart of what small town life is like, especially small town life in Texas.  McMurtry probably sounds familiar, even to a casual reader. He wrote Lonesome Dove. That book, his most famous, was supposed to be his subversion of the western. Somehow, it became one of the most iconic westerns. I don’t think McMurtry ever quite […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Western, Young Adult Tagged With: coming-of-age, romp, Small town, Texas

Halbs's CBR8 Review No:23 · Genres: Fiction, Western, Young Adult · Tags: coming-of-age, romp, Small town, Texas ·
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