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Humanizing a Goddess

Circe by Madeline Miller

February 27, 2020 by thewheelbarrow Leave a Comment

I bought Circe last year after it won a few awards. I finally read it because a friend from work read it and recommended it to me. We were both changing jobs so I wanted to read it while we still worked together so that we could discuss it. It was fantastic. It reminded me, thematically, of Grendel by John Gardner in that the premise is the book is the POV from a character that is considered an antagonist in a different, famous story. Like […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: Circe, Greek, madeline miller, mythology, odyssesus, olympians, witch

thewheelbarrow's CBR12 Review No:3 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: Circe, Greek, madeline miller, mythology, odyssesus, olympians, witch ·
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Moth falling

Exhibit A of the Self-Fulfilling Title

The Okay Witch by Emma Steinkellner

February 21, 2020 by chrispychrust 2 Comments

I could only praise this book is the way I would a bowl of Kraft dinner (or boxed mac and cheese for anyone that didn’t grow up with Canadians). If I really want cheesy noodles and Kraft is available, I’ll eat it. If the other options for a meal were meatloaf or fruitcake I would choose Kraft dinner, just like how I would definitely re-read The Okay Witch over other particular books. But here’s the deal: Do I actively crave or recommend Kraft dinner? NOPE. […]

Filed Under: Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Young Adult Tagged With: Adolescence & Coming of Age, comic, Emma, Emma Steinkellner, Fiction, Girl Coming of Age, graphic, Graphic Novel, illustraions, Illustration, magic, novel, Okay, okay witch, The Okay Witch, witch, YA, Young Adult

chrispychrust's CBR12 Review No:1 · Genres: Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Young Adult · Tags: Adolescence & Coming of Age, comic, Emma, Emma Steinkellner, Fiction, Girl Coming of Age, graphic, Graphic Novel, illustraions, Illustration, magic, novel, Okay, okay witch, The Okay Witch, witch, YA, Young Adult ·
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A Short-Story Novel Hybrid

Love, Lies, and Hocus Pocus: Beginnigns by Lydia Sherrer

June 30, 2018 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

The world and the characters in Love, Lies, and Hocus Pocus: Beginnings are so much fun that it really annoys me how short the stories and the book are. To some extent, the two main characters are pretty standard. Lily is bookish, socially awkward, and talented with magic; she’s a wizard. Sebastian is friendly, good looking, a troublemaker, and has little magic talent, but he is a witch. This to me is a tradition buddy mystery-solving/adventure team. What makes them fun is their dynamic and […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: adventure, beginnings, fantasy, love lies and hocus pocus, lydia sherrer, magic, witch, wizard

CoffeeShopReader's CBR10 Review No:41 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: adventure, beginnings, fantasy, love lies and hocus pocus, lydia sherrer, magic, witch, wizard ·
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Kill Your Darlings

All Souls Trilogy: A Discovery of Witches, Shadow of Night, The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness

January 28, 2018 by Ellesfena 4 Comments

Deborah Harkness knows a lot about a lot of things. Her depth and breadth of knowledge on things ranging from wine to Elizabethan England to brewing tea is certainly impressive, but the amount of detail crammed into these books sure does make for some slow going. The All Souls Trilogy is about a world in which witches, vampires, and daemons (in this case, daemons are humans who are more than us regular folk–musical prodigies, artistic savants, financial wizards, scientific geniuses–or sometimes drug addicts or mentally […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: A Discovery of Witches, Deborah Harkness, Elizabethan, romance, vampire, witch

Ellesfena's CBR10 Review No:3 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: A Discovery of Witches, Deborah Harkness, Elizabethan, romance, vampire, witch ·
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Plutonium may give you grief for thousands of years, but arsenic is forever.

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

December 7, 2017 by borisanne 2 Comments

It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people. I cannot emphasize enough how much of a treat Good Omens is. Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett will also tell you how much of a treat it is. They will tell you in their introduction and their afterward how much they wrote it for the love of it […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Religion Tagged With: #Gaiman, adam young, anathema device, angels, anges nutter, anti-christ, antichrist, apocalypse, aziraphale, cbr9, crawly, crowley, Death, demons, earth, end of days, famine, fantasy, Fiction, four horsemen, Heaven, hell, horsemen of the apocalypse, Neil Gaiman, newton pulsifer, nutter, pollution, pratchett, prophecies, Religion, Terry Pratchett, Urban Fantasy, war, witch, witches, witchfinder army

borisanne's CBR9 Review No:39 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Religion · Tags: #Gaiman, adam young, anathema device, angels, anges nutter, anti-christ, antichrist, apocalypse, aziraphale, cbr9, crawly, crowley, Death, demons, earth, end of days, famine, fantasy, Fiction, four horsemen, Heaven, hell, horsemen of the apocalypse, Neil Gaiman, newton pulsifer, nutter, pollution, pratchett, prophecies, Religion, Terry Pratchett, Urban Fantasy, war, witch, witches, witchfinder army ·
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God bless busybody community matriarchs, and all that sail in them.

Broken Homes by Ben Aaronovitch

June 30, 2017 by borisanne Leave a Comment

More, please. More, more, more. I just love me some Peter Grant. And fair warning to the reader who may be interested in this series: this book, Broken Homes, which is Book 4 of the “Rivers of London” series, isn’t the strongest of the bunch. But it’s still a delight and a treat, and I will fight anyone who isn’t a fan. Listen, I have five more “Dark Tower” books to read in the next five weeks, but I still just checked out Foxglove Summer […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: aaronovitch, architecture, Ben Aaronovitch, chimeras, faceless man, gods, half-cannonball, industry, London, magic, met police, night witches, pc peter grant, Peter Grant, river spirits, rivers, Rivers of London, technology, Urban Fantasy, witch, witches

borisanne's CBR9 Review No:26 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: aaronovitch, architecture, Ben Aaronovitch, chimeras, faceless man, gods, half-cannonball, industry, London, magic, met police, night witches, pc peter grant, Peter Grant, river spirits, rivers, Rivers of London, technology, Urban Fantasy, witch, witches ·
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