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Four books for the price of one review (and a lunch break filled with books)

The Peacock Who Howled with Jackals  by Nahid Kazemi

You Can't Tame a Tiger by Stephanie Ellen Sy

RJ and the Ticking Clock by Ian Duncan

Who Needs the Dark?: The Many Ways Living Things Depend on Darkness by Laura Alary

May 7, 2025 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

The other day I found a few titles I was interested in via an email newsletter. When I looked them up to see if reader copies online were available, they had thumbnails of the images, but not the full  text. I read these introductions, but was hoping to find finished copies sometime in the future (as they are all summer and fall publications). The next day what to my wondering eyes did appear? It was eight tiny reindeer…. I mean, those four titles I had […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fiction, Health, History, Non-Fiction, Poetry Tagged With: animals, Asian, celebrations, darkness, earth science, environmental science, Fables, fathers, friendship, Ian Duncan, jackals, Julien Chung, Laura Alary, LGBTQ, lions, Nahid Kazemi, parents, Risa Hugo, school, Scot Ritchie, self-esteem, Social Themes, Stephanie Ellen Sy, Time

BlackRaven's CBR17 Review No:246 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction, Health, History, Non-Fiction, Poetry · Tags: animals, Asian, celebrations, darkness, earth science, environmental science, Fables, fathers, friendship, Ian Duncan, jackals, Julien Chung, Laura Alary, LGBTQ, lions, Nahid Kazemi, parents, Risa Hugo, school, Scot Ritchie, self-esteem, Social Themes, Stephanie Ellen Sy, Time ·
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“You put dinosaurs and people together, you always get screaming.” (Bingo)

Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor

November 8, 2022 by Malin 1 Comment

CBR14 Bingo: Time (the whole book is about time travel to different points in Earth’s history) Dr. Madeleine “Max” Maxwell is recruited by the seemingly rather mundane St. Mary’s Institute of History, only to discover that they are actually a secret organisation that time travels to various points in history, for research purposes. Obviously, you can’t just throw anyone into a time machine and have at it, so there’s a lot of training. Then there’s the fact that time travel is rather dangerous, and she […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, History, Mystery, Science Fiction Tagged With: #fantasy, #history, #Science Fiction, adventure, cbr14, cbr14bingo, Chronicles of St. Mary's, dinosaurs, Jodi Taylor, just one damned thing after another, Malin, Time, time travel

Malin's CBR14 Review No:38 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, History, Mystery, Science Fiction · Tags: #fantasy, #history, #Science Fiction, adventure, cbr14, cbr14bingo, Chronicles of St. Mary's, dinosaurs, Jodi Taylor, just one damned thing after another, Malin, Time, time travel ·
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Give This The Miniseries Treatment!

A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark

August 30, 2022 by LittlePlat 1 Comment

I was pretty excited to finally pick up and find the time to read A Master of Djinn. I had previously been delighted by P. Djèlí Clark’s alternative, magical steampunk 1910s Cairo. The setting is just so damned fun. The novellas I had read before Master of Djinn—The Haunting of Tram Car 015 and A Dead Djinn in Cairo— were masterful in how they managed to be so descriptive for short form works, so was I curious as to how he would adapt an entire novel into this […]

Filed Under: Book Club, Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: A Master of Djinn, Cairo, cbr14bingo, Dead Djinn Universe, egypt, hugo award nominee, Mystics and Estorics and Colonialism, P. Djèlí Clark, steampunk, Time

LittlePlat's CBR14 Review No:18 · Genres: Book Club, Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: A Master of Djinn, Cairo, cbr14bingo, Dead Djinn Universe, egypt, hugo award nominee, Mystics and Estorics and Colonialism, P. Djèlí Clark, steampunk, Time ·
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Race/Horse

Horse: A Novel by Geraldine Brooks

August 24, 2022 by ElCicco Leave a Comment

Cbr14bingo Time, Bingo #2 (down) This novel is set in three distinct time periods linked by a Civil War era thoroughbred named Lexington As far as I’m concerned Geraldine Brooks is one of the best historical fiction writers out there. I have read all of her novels. March won the Pulitzer Prize. Caleb’s Crossing, People of the Book, and Year of Wonder: A Novel of the Plague were all outstanding. I felt that The Secret Chord, her previous novel, was not quite up to snuff, […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbr14, cbr14bingo, ElCicco, Fiction, Geraldine Brooks, historical fiction, horse, Time

ElCicco's CBR14 Review No:36 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr14, cbr14bingo, ElCicco, Fiction, Geraldine Brooks, historical fiction, horse, Time ·
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In search of found time: a short introduction to Proust

How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton

August 14, 2022 by Wanderlustful Leave a Comment

How Proust Can Change Your Life is Alain de Botton’s often tongue-in-cheek ‘lifestyle guide’ based on lessons from the life of canonical author Marcel Proust, the author of In Search of Lost Time. Although Proust is a canonical author, I have not yet had the pleasure of reading him, nor was I very familiar with his life and background. De Bouton’s guide is interesting- and somewhat heartening- in illustrating how this great author had an inglorious start, wasn’t very good at getting or keeping a […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Alain de Botton, alaindebotton, cbr14bingo, Literary Criticism, Proust, Time

Wanderlustful's CBR14 Review No:5 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: Alain de Botton, alaindebotton, cbr14bingo, Literary Criticism, Proust, Time ·
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“Finding the ocean was as simple a matter as letting a river lead you in the direction it wanted to go most.”

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers

August 13, 2022 by faintingviolet 2 Comments

This one didn’t make me cry nearly as much as its predecessor, Psalm for the Wild-Built, but that shouldn’t make you think that it didn’t have an emotional impact, it did make me tear up on more than one occasion. Because this novella is a meditation on what we call the human condition. It is also a look at how we can live if society puts happiness and contentment first. If we don’t compete but instead cooperate. But its also the kind of novella that […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: a Prayer for the Crown-Shy, Becky Chambers, cbr14bingo, faintingviolet, human condition, monk and robot, Time

faintingviolet's CBR14 Review No:51 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: a Prayer for the Crown-Shy, Becky Chambers, cbr14bingo, faintingviolet, human condition, monk and robot, Time ·
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