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The black bat night approached and enfolded her in its wings

Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

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For the past 15+ years, I’ve been the target audience for the Man Booker awards: literary fiction snob leaning to British Commonwealth authors. Though I have been branching out into other genres over the last few years, I still look to the Booker long- and shortlists for recommendations and usually pick up at least a few each year. For some reason, I haven’t looked much into other prizes until this year when I realized the Baileys (formerly Orange) prize lists would be a great resource for discovering new books by women.  Browsing through that list as well as the Costa […]

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7/11/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:37 |

One of the few instances where the sequel surpasses the original.

Thunderhead (Arc of a Scythe, #2) by Neal Shusterman

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This is an extremely suspenseful, and surprisingly thoughtful science fiction novel. Honestly, I’m kind of at a loss as to what else to say! But mostly that’s because my brain feels like it’s just been squeezed through some sort of bladed juicer and now I’m expected to have coherent thoughts. I think this series is one of the few where I’m so intrigued by the ideas behind the story, and the plot developments, that I’m actually okay with the characters being somewhat empty vessels. It’s the only thing keeping me from giving this book five stars, honestly. I zoomed through […]

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2/10/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:20 |

What a strange, lovely little book.

That Inevitable Victorian Thing by E.K. Johnston

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I’m a little torn on this one, honestly! I thought it was a bit slow for my tastes, mostly at the beginning, and I would have appreciated a bit more wallowing in emotions, but I also understand this is a book designed in part to ape Victorian conventions and mores, so perhaps I was never going to get the version of this book that would have pleased me best. And what a strange little book it was! This is an alternate history/speculative take on quite a complicated scenario. Basically, what if Queen Victoria hadn’t been quite so Victorian, at least […]

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1/5/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:2 |

“First comes smiles, then the lies. Last comes gunfire.”

Wolves of the Calla (The Dark Tower, #5) by Stephen King

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It’s sort of hard to be objective when a book sucks you in as hard as this one sucked me in. It’s not often anymore that I actually lose myself in a book—just straight up forget about my own existence, and become completely absorbed in a fictional one—but this one totally did that. It gave me the same feeling as The Drawing of Three, which is probably still my favorite in the series so far, though this one comes close. Roland and his ka-tet are once again back on the Path of the Beam, but along the way, their gunslinger […]

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9/14/2017 's CBR9 Review No:79 |

This book, I need y’all to read it so I can talk about it with someone!

Too Like the Lightning (Terra Ignota, #1) by Ada Palmer

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This might be the weirdest book I’ve ever read. Well, the weirdest book I’ve read that I actually ended up enjoying. I might have to think a while before officially giving it that award. My instinct is to put this review away and not think about it for weeks. I just want to sit with the story, let it brew and fester in my mind a little bit. But I know if I do that, I will forget everything and end up floundering around when it actually comes time to write. I might be more eloquent about the book’s larger […]

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9/12/2017 's CBR9 Review No:77 |

Seven novellas, all are good, two are excellent.

Seven Stones to Stand or Fall by Diana Gabaldon

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Seven Stones to Stand or Fall is a 500ish page collection of (mostly) novellas set in Gabaldon’s Outlander universe. All but two of the novellas were previously published in short story anthologies. The remaining two are new. I do not recommend picking up this collection if you aren’t already a fan of the books. Most of the stories would be entertaining enough to read, but you’re not going to get optimal enjoyment out of them without the context of the main series (or the Lord John books, which you should also read, because Lord John is the best). Here is a […]

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9/12/2017 's CBR9 Review No:75 |

I liked it, but I kept wanting to get back to the main story.

Wizard and Glass (The Dark Tower, #4) by Stephen King

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Well, I failed at my goal of finishing this series before the movie came out on August 15th*. Perhaps Ashley of past years could have finished the remaining three books in the next thirteen days (as of actually finishing the book), but Present Ashley is certainly not capable of it. *Will not now be seeing movie. Very upset at genius casting of Idris Elba entirely wasted. I was still going to give it a chance until I read they’d made Jake the protagonist and dumbed it down. STOP DUMBING THINGS DOWN THAT IS WHEN THEY SUCK. No thank you, I shall […]

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8/22/2017 's CBR9 Review No:54 |

Sacrifices understanding for looking real smart. Mistakes complexity for depth.

Ninefox Gambit (The Machineries of Empire, #1) by Yoon Ha Lee

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What it comes down to with this book is that the barriers to entry were too high. (I shouldn’t have to add the “for me” to that statement, but I will because other people are losing their mind over this book and it was nominated for a bunch of awards, so clearly SOMEONE gets it.) With science fiction and fantasy as a genre, certain barriers to entry are expected, even looked forward to. I always relish that feeling of confusion and displacement I get when entering a new fictional world for the first time, before I learn its intricacies and […]

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8/1/2017 's CBR9 Review No:53 |


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