A heist caper set in the Middle Ages, with the loot being the bones of St. Nicholas. A dash of queer romance. Based on actual events.
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Writer and software engineer in the US Midwest. I enjoy poetry, horror, some f/sf, some mystery, some literary fiction (but not the kind where the main character is a professor and nothing happens).
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caracabe reviewed Nicked by M. T. Anderson
caracabe finished reading Nicked by M. T. Anderson
caracabe started reading My wars are laid away in books by Alfred Habegger
caracabe reviewed Black Guy Dies First by Robin R. Means Coleman
Review of The Black Guy Dies First
5 stars
Thoughtful, richly informative, and entertaining. My one tiny complaint is the lack of an index, because I’d like to use this book as a reference work. However, the lists are easy to find and as useful as they are fun: “10 Horror Movies About Black-White Race Relations Not Named Get Out,” “The Baddest Black Horror Villains,” untitled lists such as horror movies with Black leads, and more.
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caracabe reviewed We Mostly Come Out at Night by Rob Costello
Review of We Mostly Come Out at Night
4 stars
An anthology of queer monster stories—as in, the monsters are queer. I didn’t realize when I bought the book that it’s YA. I wish books like this had been available when I was a young adult, and I wouldn’t hesitate to give this book to a young adult in my life.
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caracabe reviewed Brave New Weird Volume Two by Alex Woodroe
Review of Brave New Weird Volume 2
4 stars
This collection has eco-horror, body horror, folk horror, the horrors of war, even food horror and library horror. It has straightforward storytelling, non-human narrators, and visual poetry. Some stories will make you laugh, some will make you cry, some will make you think, some you will try to forget. Content warnings in the back.
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Review of Sapiens
4 stars
An interesting and thought-provoking work on the history and possible future of humanity. The scholarship is broad, which makes me (perhaps unfairly) skeptical of its depth. Sapiens covers a number of complex topics in an accessible way, so I assume some tiny percentage of what I learned from this book is misinformation.
caracabe finished reading Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Hebrew: קיצור תולדות האנושות, [Ḳitsur toldot ha-enoshut]) is a book by Yuval Noah Harari, …