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Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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I wanted to like this one so bad!

The Liar's Dictionary by Eley Williams

December 21, 2021 by Mobius_Walker Leave a Comment

Mallory is a lowly intern at Swansby’s Encyclodpaedic Dictionary in present day. Her main job is to answer the phone and be berated by some anonymous troll who is upset that dictionary definitions are changing. Specifically, the definition of marriage. Tension at work is compounded by the fact that Mallory herself is gay and not out, and this troll has now called in a bomb threat. Oh, and she’s just been tasked with going through an entire encyclopedia from the 1920s and finding all of the […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: dictionary, Eley Williams, historical fiction, mountweazels, wordplay

Mobius_Walker's CBR13 Review No:75 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: dictionary, Eley Williams, historical fiction, mountweazels, wordplay ·
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The weirdest afterschool special I’ve never seen

March 17, 2018 by Dusty Highway 3 Comments

This book was an impulse purchase on a long airport layover a few years ago. I’d heard good things about China Miéville and wanted to give him a shot, and I figured a quick kids’ book read would be a good place to start, and then — classic me — I let it sit on the shelf for nearly two years before getting to it. Un Lun Dun has a lot going for it. The protagonists, Zanna and Deeba, pre-teen girls and best friends, have […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: #CBR10, children's book, China Mieville, fantasy, Fiction, Un Lun Dun, wordplay

Dusty Highway's CBR10 Review No:14 · Genres: Children's Books, Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: #CBR10, children's book, China Mieville, fantasy, Fiction, Un Lun Dun, wordplay ·
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