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a perfect blast of nostalgia from the paranormal past…until the last 30 pages blows it all up

We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry

May 25, 2021 by andtheIToldYouSos 4 Comments

A losing field hockey team is sweating themselves half to death. They are being pummeled by every other group on campus; a collection of high school teams from allover New England living the exciting existence of a pre-college summer program. They haul their broken bodies back to the dorms of the UNH campus, exhausted physically and spiritually. The goalie is DONE with this exhaustion. She wants, needs, and expects more for both herself and her beloved team. She, like many teen girls before and after, […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: AAPI voices, Boston's North Shore, coming-of-age, Danvers, field hockey, girlhood, high school, high school sports, historical fiction, Massachusetts, paranormal, problematic, Quan Barry, salem, Salem Witch Trials, sports, superstition, the 1980s

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR13 Review No:48 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: AAPI voices, Boston's North Shore, coming-of-age, Danvers, field hockey, girlhood, high school, high school sports, historical fiction, Massachusetts, paranormal, problematic, Quan Barry, salem, Salem Witch Trials, sports, superstition, the 1980s ·
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The end ruined it for me

The Daughters of Temperance Hobbs by Katherine Howe

March 21, 2021 by Ellesfena 2 Comments

Series: The Physick Book. I read Book One (The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane) in 2009. What I remembered about this series prior to reading this book: I had gotten this series completely mixed up with the Deborah Harkness series, which was rather unfair to these books. While I didn’t love this, it’s certainly better than the All Souls trilogy. Because I had it mixed up with another series, it turned out I didn’t actually remember anything about the first book when I picked this […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: katherine howe, salem, the physick book of deliverance dane, witches

Ellesfena's CBR13 Review No:5 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: katherine howe, salem, the physick book of deliverance dane, witches ·
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Fire Burn and Cauldron Bubble

We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry

February 8, 2021 by Jake 1 Comment

A Simple Favor is one of my favorite movies from the last few years. I love quirky crime comedies and the leads have great chemistry. But I also enjoyed how it depicted female relationships, especially in an unconventional manner. A Simple Pod, hosted by three journalists who also love the movie, unpacks this a little, talking about the queerness of the movie and the de-centering of men in its tale. We Ride Upon Sticks isn’t a crime story but it still hits a similar sweet spot for me. […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: field hockey, Massachusetts, Quan Barry, salem, We Ride Upon Sticks, witchcraft

Jake's CBR13 Review No:19 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: field hockey, Massachusetts, Quan Barry, salem, We Ride Upon Sticks, witchcraft ·
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cbr12bingo – Adaptation!

Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff

July 4, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

It is 1954, and a young man named Atticus is headed home to Chicago. In Chicago he will find his beloved uncle and aunt, who together run The Safe Negro Travel Guide and Travel Agency. His uncle, like himself, is a lover of pulp novels and dime store comics. His aunt travels the country alone, adding stops to the travel guide while looking at the stars. He’ll find his little cousin, a comic-book hound and talented artist. He’ll find his old friend Titia, who has […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: 1950s America, adaptation, cbr12bingo, Chicago, comic books, cosmic horror, family tree, H.P. Lovecraft, Haunted House, hbo, Jim Crow, lovecraftian, magic, Matt Ruff, occult, pulp horror, Racism, salem, supernatural, tulsa massacre

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:68 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Suspense · Tags: 1950s America, adaptation, cbr12bingo, Chicago, comic books, cosmic horror, family tree, H.P. Lovecraft, Haunted House, hbo, Jim Crow, lovecraftian, magic, Matt Ruff, occult, pulp horror, Racism, salem, supernatural, tulsa massacre ·
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What even happened here?

April 21, 2016 by narfna 4 Comments

Here are three things I know: 1. The Puritans were weirdos. Everything with them was witches. Everything. My notes are missing. IT WAS A WITCH. My daughter is moody. SHE’S A WITCH. My dog barfed on my rug. WIIIITCH!!!!! 2. The airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow (European) is roughly 24 miles per hour. 3. I did not like this book. I really don’t want to spend much time talking about this book because, a) I started (and finally finished) it so long ago that […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: American History, history, narfna, Puritans, salem, Stacy Schiff, the salem witch trials, The Witches: Salem 1692

narfna's CBR8 Review No:58 · Genres: Audiobooks, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: American History, history, narfna, Puritans, salem, Stacy Schiff, the salem witch trials, The Witches: Salem 1692 ·
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