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Fred forgot three things in a row before he reached the front door on his way to work.

Mrs Caliban by Rachel Ingalls

Puckoon by Spike Milligan

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Sea Monsters by Chloe Aridjis

The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector

July 17, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Mrs Caliban: 4/5 Stars This is a re-released novel from 1982, so if you’ve seen the cover but didn’t know about it, like me, perhaps you’ll be excused. It has a wonderfully smart and funny tone to the whole thing. We find our protagonist, a married housewife, doing household chores, thinking about the silence of her marriage, when she hears a news report of an escaped water monster terrorizing the town. She goes on, prepares for her day, and after time, the monster finds her […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Chloe Aridjis, Clarice Lispector, mexican gothic, mrs caliban, puckoon, Rachel Ingalls, sea monsters, silvia moreno-garcia, spike milligan, the hour of the star

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:385 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Chloe Aridjis, Clarice Lispector, mexican gothic, mrs caliban, puckoon, Rachel Ingalls, sea monsters, silvia moreno-garcia, spike milligan, the hour of the star ·
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This ridiculous book taught me the word ‘mucosal.’ …Yay?

Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant

July 19, 2018 by Bothari43 Leave a Comment

This was totally silly, but a fun kind of silly! I mean, it tries real hard to be serious and scientific, but no. A book about a bunch of scientists sailing out to the Mariana Trench to find killer mermaids has to be at least a little silly. Years ago, a SyFy channel knock-off sent a bunch of faux-documentarians out to sea to film a search for mermaids. Their ship was found empty, and the recovered footage showed creatures that the world dismissed as hoaxes. […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: mermaids, Mira Grant, sea monsters, Seanan McGuire

Bothari43's CBR10 Review No:19 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: mermaids, Mira Grant, sea monsters, Seanan McGuire ·
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