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“WHERE’S MY COW? ARE YOU MY COW?”

Thud! (Discworld, #34) by Terry Pratchett

January 10, 2023 by narfna Leave a Comment

This was almost five stars for me, and might very well get bumped up on eventual re-read, but for now it’s holding steady at 4.5 stars, rounded down. It didn’t quite reach the level of profound delightment that I need in order to give a Discworld book five stars. Mostly what I feel right now as I type this review is sad that this was my last brand new City Watch book, which has been my favorite of the Discworld sub-series. And I am very […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Fantasy Tagged With: #fantasy, city watch, Commander Samuel Vimes, discworld, narfna, Satire, Terry Pratchett, The City Watch, Thud!, Urban Fantasy

narfna's CBR15 Review No:6 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Fantasy · Tags: #fantasy, city watch, Commander Samuel Vimes, discworld, narfna, Satire, Terry Pratchett, The City Watch, Thud!, Urban Fantasy ·
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Give this little sapphic sasquatch book a shot!

Patricia Wants to Cuddle by Samantha Allen

December 5, 2022 by narfna 4 Comments

This was weird and I kind of loved it. After seeing this cover I absolutely needed to read it, and that just goes to show you that sometimes you CAN judge a book by its cover. But before I get to what I liked about the book, I do want to nitpick a little, mostly with the marketing. This book is being billed as a “horror comedy” and while it’s most definitely horror, I don’t think it’s comedy. Unless you count satire as a subgenre […]

Filed Under: Horror Tagged With: bigfoot, cryptids, horror, LGBTQIA, narfna, Patricia Wants to Cuddle, queer horror, reality TV, samantha allen, sasquatch, Satire

narfna's CBR14 Review No:209 · Genres: Horror · Tags: bigfoot, cryptids, horror, LGBTQIA, narfna, Patricia Wants to Cuddle, queer horror, reality TV, samantha allen, sasquatch, Satire ·
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Three to drop and one to circle back to someday

Your Guide to Not Getting Murdered in a Quaint English Village by Jay Cooper and Maureen Johnson

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson

Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth

A Psalm for the Wild-built by Becky Chambers

December 4, 2022 by carmelpie Leave a Comment

Your Guide to Not Getting Murdered in a Quaint English Village by Jay Cooper and Maureen Johnson I got about halfway through this book. The gist is that, in a Quaint English Village, everything and everyone is out to murder you. The first few chapters made me chuckle. I skimmed the rest. There are some quizzes to see if you are paying attention. For me, the novelty wore off after the first one. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson I […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Non-Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: academic, Angela Duckworth, Becky Chambers, british comedy, british countryside, cozy, Jay Cooper and Maureen Johnson, mark manson, Satire, scientist, Self-help

carmelpie's CBR14 Review No:38 · Genres: Fiction, Non-Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: academic, Angela Duckworth, Becky Chambers, british comedy, british countryside, cozy, Jay Cooper and Maureen Johnson, mark manson, Satire, scientist, Self-help ·
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St. Oscars world

The Past is Red by Catherynne M. Valente.

November 15, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I did not think I would like the short novel; The Past is Red by Catherynne M. Valente. I felt I would never understand it and was going to stop reading as things felt disjointed, the narrator was bouncing all over, and there was stuff that was very off. The book felt like a translation that was not smoothly translated at that. However, once I understood the flow (there was one), the bounces between “really then, then, and now,” plus how reliable the narrative is […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Health, History, Religion, Romance, Science Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic, Catherynne M. Valente, Satire, women

BlackRaven's CBR14 Review No:558 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Health, History, Religion, Romance, Science Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic, Catherynne M. Valente, Satire, women ·
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Disintegration Station

The Promise by Damon Galgut

October 26, 2022 by Zirza Leave a Comment

South Africa, 1987. As the country is in the death throes of Apartheid, defiantly buckling under the weight of an international boycott, a Jewish woman named Rachel Swart, mother of three and wife to farmer Herman ‘Manie’ Swart, dies of an unnamed disease. She makes her husband promise to gift the little shack on the back of her property to Salome, their maid. Amor, their youngest daughter, overhears them. After Rachel’s death the promise seems all too soon forgotten; they seem surprised whenever Amor brings […]

Filed Under: History Tagged With: apartheid, Booker prize, Booker prize 2021 shortlist, Damon Galgut, Satire, south africa, the promise

Zirza's CBR14 Review No:46 · Genres: History · Tags: apartheid, Booker prize, Booker prize 2021 shortlist, Damon Galgut, Satire, south africa, the promise ·
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“look, I know you don’t believe me when I say I’m imprisoned in our slack workplace”

Several People Are Typing by Calvin Kasulke

October 11, 2022 by GentleRain 4 Comments

CBR14Bingo: Rec’d (I recommend this one! Fast and excellent skewering of Slack/work culture in 2022) This is one of those books that hit me at the exact right time. As someone who is constantly on Slack for work, I am still thinking about perfectly it skewered the grim experience of corporate tech chat messaging. Throughout the day today I was struck by how well he satirized various interactions. Several People are Typing gets everything about the tone and the purgatorial aspect of this platform while […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Fiction Tagged With: Calvin Kasulke, cbr14bingo, epistolary novel, office culture, Satire, spec-fic

GentleRain's CBR14 Review No:94 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Fiction · Tags: Calvin Kasulke, cbr14bingo, epistolary novel, office culture, Satire, spec-fic ·
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