How many times have you participated in CBR? Has it changed the way you read? This is my first CBR. A friend (who has participated in the past) recommended you to me. The change in my reading is I found a few books I never would have read on my own. I may or may not have liked them, but I did enjoy the experience. I also want to read more so I can recommend LOTS more books (as books are a passion of mine…. it’s my only real addiction. And chocolate. And cake. And alligator wrestling). All the young adult and children’s […]
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Transcription by Kate Atkinson
In 1940’s London, Juliet Armstrong is recruited to MI5. Initially doing mostly secretarial work, she finds herself tasked with more and more espionage, infiltrating right wing groups sympathising with Hitler. Ten years later, she’s working for the BBC when a run in with a former colleague brings her previous work back to haunt her. Is she going to pay for what she did for her country? I so struggled with this one, and it pains me to say it as I have enjoyed a couple of Atkinson’s other books this year. But this one was mostly tedious and confusing, with […]
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12/15/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:45 |
Such a lovely surprise on a cold and snowy day
Geek Knits by Joan of Dark/Toni Carr
Last Saturday, I woke up feeling a bit out of sorts. By the afternoon, it became clear why – I was coming down with a doozy of a cold. By Sunday, I was feeling pretty wretched, my head was fuzzy, my throat was sore, my nose was constantly dripping and I felt completely wrung out. Sadly, I could not just call in sick and stay in bed fighting this thing – the end of term English test for my students was on Monday and Tuesday (preparation day on Monday, actual essay writing on Tuesday). I had to tough it out […]
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Women of her class are molded to be ornaments
The Hollow of Fear by Sherry Thomas
At this point, I think enough Cannonballers have written rave reviews about Sherry Thomas’ “Lady Sherlock Series”. Just read these books if the subject matter appeals to you at all. They are a treasure and I think that each one is better than the last. “The Hollow of Fear” is the third book in the series. I have to admit, again, that my Sherlock Holmes background is via Madonna’s ex husband and Benedict Cumberbatch. I, therefore, come at these books without a reference point for the mysteries that lie within them. I am told that they mirror the mysteries in […]
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12/15/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:55 | 
| Tags: #CBR10, Fiction, historical fiction, Lady Sherlock Series, mystery, Sherry Thomas | Category: Fiction, Mystery | 0 Comments
But loneliness has a compass of its own
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
After I hit Cannonball, I rested on my laurels a bit too much and now I am behind a couple of reviews! I also slowed way down in the reading department. I read this one a while back for my book club’s November selection. Seems like ages ago. Now I gotta slide these reviews in between making holiday cookies and watching my Christmas Hallmark/Lifetime/Freeform movies. Don’t judge. This is another one of Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine book club selections. Again, I would never have guessed that I would become a fan of her book club recommendations, but here I am. […]
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12/15/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:54 |
Welcome to the modern world
Oklahoma City: What the Investigation Missed--and Why It Still Matters by Andrew Gumbel & Roger G Charles
I was in the sixth grade when the Alfred P Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was bombed. I was a little too young to be fully aware of Waco, Ruby Ridge, or the first World Trade Center attack, and, as an army brat, while the first Gulf War affected my family personally, I only really saw it as something that might take my father from me. So the 1995 terrorist attack was the first real event that captured my interest – and not least because I grew up in Oklahoma. But the intervening 23 years has left this event […]
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Mystery and Racism
Fear of the Dark by Gar Anthony Haywood
In an alternate universe, names like Gar Anthony Haywood and Walter Mosley are known in the same company as those of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett. For they too write talented PI characters set in California locations that deal with social issues. Fear of the Dark is Haywood’s freshman effort and it netted him multiple prestigious writing awards for best first novel, including the Anthony and Shamus awards respectively. He should be better known than he is and yet I hadn’t heard of him until I read his contribution to a round table of black mystery writers that was published in the LA […]
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12/14/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:57 | 
| Tags: Fear of the Dark, Gar Anthony Haywood, los angeles, mystery | Category: Mystery | 0 Comments
There Will Be a Feast
Salt Fat Acid Heat, Circe by Samin Nosrat, Madeline Miller
Do you even know how much I heart narfna? I knew I was in for a treat when her name was on the paper that fell out of Salt Fat Acid Heat. Speaking of Salt Fat Acid Heat, I watched the 4 episode Netflix series and I recommend it, even if cooking shows aren’t your thing. Samin Nosrat is such a joy. I have read the many positive reviews of Circe and I am so excited about reading it. I asked and narfna provided.
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“I finally understood what my birth parents did not: my adoption was hard, and complicated, but it was not a tragedy. It was not my fault, and it wasn’t theirs, either. It was the easiest way to solve just one of too many problems.”
All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung
I basically read this all in one sitting last Saturday morning. It’s a relative short book at around 220 pages, but I think I would have wanted to read it fast even if it were 400. Nichole Chung, unsurprisingly to anyone who’s read her other work (I’ve mostly done so on The (dearly departed) Toast), is a very good writer. In fact, she started writing about adoption years before this book was published; I remember reading several of her articles about it and thinking at the time that she should write a book. And hey, here it is! And hey, […]
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12/14/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:164 | | Tags: #memoir, adoption, all you can ever know, narfna, Nicole Chung, Non-Fiction, transracial adoption | Category: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction | 0 Comments