This was a CBR Book Exchange book from a few years ago, thank you Mrs. Smith. I lent it to my father, who lent it to a friend, and then when I got it back it shuffled to the bottom of my tbr pile. That eye stares at me accusingly. I decided to start it last night hoping I would finish in time to write a review for bingo. Um. Less than 24 hours later, I’m finished and writing the review. The review may take […]
Murderbot strikes again, is even more loveable.
Murderbot <3. I feel like just making that one word and its accompanying symbol my entire review, but that would be doing a disservice to the book and also to anyone potentially reading this review who has not yet let Murderbot into their lives. Murderbot is life. Murderbot is love. Just kidding. If Murderbot saw me talking about Murderbot like this, Murderbot would be appalled. Murderbot is all about not dealing with feelings at all costs. Which is too bad, because as a newly free […]
Give Quinto More Books to Narrate Now!
I downloaded this novella a while back when it was an Audible deal of the day and finally got around to it. This is actually the first time I’ve read anything by John Scalzi despite his popularity among certain nerdy readers, and I am not sure how representative this piece was of his other work, but it left me wanting more. Zachary Quinto was also a great narrator for this, and basically needs to narrate all the things from now on. I came into this […]
I had to stop reading this at night
This is a very short story, and it almost feels like a cheat to have it as one of my CBR books for the year, but here we are. After reading Obscura (which was one of my recent reviews), I wanted more Joe Hart. So I downloaded a few short stories that were available on Kindle Unlimited. I started to read this story the other night laying in my bed, and I actually had to stop and read it during the day. It’s at its […]