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If you had 450 years to plan a welcome party…

The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu

December 21, 2024 by genericwhitegirl Leave a Comment

*some spoilers ahead* If you, like me, had never heard of this book until Netflix aired the eponymous series, it’s ok. Sometimes we watch the movie/tv show/whatever and then read the book, even though it feels weird. Three-Body Problem is a concept in classical mechanics that describes the motion of three masses that orbit each other in space. The problem is that there is no solution to always accurately describe their motion (thanks wikipedia). So now imagine there is a planet, called Trisolaris, with three […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: cixin liu, genericwhitegirl, skootchyknees, The Blist, the three-body problem

genericwhitegirl's CBR16 Review No:25 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: cixin liu, genericwhitegirl, skootchyknees, The Blist, the three-body problem ·
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Maybe humans aren’t the most deserving of a new planet

Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky

December 21, 2024 by genericwhitegirl 2 Comments

I read this book to get my brother to stop talking about alien *insert creepy animal here (I don’t want to spoil it)*. Every time I’d see him, he would ask if I read Children of Time and then proceed to explain the premise as if he hadn’t explained it to me the last time I saw him. After maybe the fourth or fifth time I decided to read the book to shut him up. Look, I’m not a big sci-fi reader, but this one […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children Of Time, genericwhitegirl, skootchyknees, The Blist

genericwhitegirl's CBR16 Review No:24 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children Of Time, genericwhitegirl, skootchyknees, The Blist ·
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It’s not too late to be in the year’s best

The Women by Kristin Hannah

December 21, 2024 by genericwhitegirl Leave a Comment

So there’s good news and bad news. Good news is, I loved this book. Bad new is that I had my top five already written up before I finished The Women, and now I have to rewrite it. It’s definitely worth the extra work though (although the book that got booted might disagree). The Women is set during the Vietnam war and follows the path of Frankie McGrath, who comes from an affluent family that proudly celebrated military service. Following the path her brother took, […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Fiction, genericwhitegirl, historical fiction, kristin hannah, skootchyknees, The Blist, The Women, trauma, war

genericwhitegirl's CBR16 Review No:23 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Fiction, genericwhitegirl, historical fiction, kristin hannah, skootchyknees, The Blist, The Women, trauma, war ·
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Gruesomely delightful

I Was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones

December 9, 2024 by genericwhitegirl Leave a Comment

This is an unusual take of the slasher genre that I found refreshing. Is that an appropriate word to use when talking about slashers? Probably not, but I’m not sure what would work better…it was gruesomely delightful. How’s that? I can’t say it’s the first of its kind – the story reminds me of Scream, or even, to a lesser extent, Cabin in the Woods, where there was a comical self-awareness of the genre embedded in the story. I was a Teenage Slasher is narrated […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror Tagged With: genericwhitegirl, I was a teenage slasher, skootchyknees, Stephen Graham Jones, The Blist

genericwhitegirl's CBR16 Review No:22 · Genres: Fiction, Horror · Tags: genericwhitegirl, I was a teenage slasher, skootchyknees, Stephen Graham Jones, The Blist ·
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Dementia makes mysteries even more complicated

One Puzzling Afternoon by Emily Crutchley

December 9, 2024 by genericwhitegirl Leave a Comment

This book follows what I find to be a common formula: an (arguably) unreliable narrator, and two different timelines: one in the 50s and the other in the 2010s. So we get bits and pieces of a mystery about a missing girl in alternating chapters. Our narrator is 82-year-old Edie (or 15 years old in the 1950’s time-line). As a child, Edie is an outcast. She’s poor and has an unusual home-life, as her mother performs seances. Edie meets Lucy, the mayor’s daughter, and they […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: Emily Crutchley, genericwhitegirl, One Puzzling afternoon, skootchyknees, The Blist

genericwhitegirl's CBR16 Review No:21 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: Emily Crutchley, genericwhitegirl, One Puzzling afternoon, skootchyknees, The Blist ·
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A haunting and memorable journey

Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

November 16, 2024 by genericwhitegirl Leave a Comment

Lincoln in the Bardo is a story that you chew on. You can’t just sip it and multitask and hope to passively absorb it. You have to pay attention and actively read (or listen, in my case). But it’s so rewarding when you finish it, and worth the extra mental effort. If you’re like me and thinking a Bardo is something like a bar, you are completely wrong my friend. In buddhism, a bardo is a liminal space between death and rebirth. So we are […]

Filed Under: Featured, Fiction Tagged With: Fiction, genericwhitegirl, George Saunders, historical fiction, LINCOLN IN THE BARDO, skootchyknees

genericwhitegirl's CBR16 Review No:20 · Genres: Featured, Fiction · Tags: Fiction, genericwhitegirl, George Saunders, historical fiction, LINCOLN IN THE BARDO, skootchyknees ·
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