Check out what the participants of CBR10 have been reading in the first quarter of 2018. Which were the most popular books and authors? Who has read the most books so far? Ingres77 crunches the numbers and tallies up the totals in this stats recap.
How Far Would You Go to Protect What is Important?
Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer
Well, do not swear. Although I joy in thee, I have no joy of this contract tonight. It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden, Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be Ere one can say “It lightens.” Juliet to Romeo, Act 2, scene 2 Last year, narfna reviewed Too Like the Lightning and requested that we all read it. I was intrigued, but the book wasn’t close enough to my price point of free. Fortunately, Tor.com offered it as a free download in March. I snapped it up. Narfna summed up her initial reaction to the […]
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4/19/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:12 | 
| Tags: ada palmer, terra ignota, too like the lightning, tor book club | Category: Science Fiction | 0 Comments
So much talk of faeries, and none of it good
The Good People by Hannah Kent
I love physical books. Aside from not being able to read e-books for any sustained period of time, I love the look and feel of physical books and wish every room in my home were lined with shelves that I could fill with a never-ending stream of new books. Hannah Kent’s The Good People is one of the most gorgeous physical books I’ve ever seen, with the murky underwater blues and teals overlaid with a metallic copper leaf that partially obscures the title and amplifies the tactile pleasure that I already feel from holding a book. (The attached image gives […]
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4/19/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:20 | | Tags: #CannonballRead10, child abuse, faeries, Fiction, folk traditions, Hannah Kent, Religion, The Good People | Category: Fiction | 0 Comments
The Covenant comes to New York
Midnight Blue-Light Special by Seanan McGuire
This is the second book in the series. There may be some mild spoilers for the first book, Discount Armageddon, in this review. Set a few months after the events in the previous book, Verity Price is still trying to make it as a ballroom dancer, while also trying to study all manner of supernatural beings, all while keeping humanity in general from finding out about them. After her former boss’ niece took over the club where she worked as a waitress, turning it into more of a burlesque than a strip club, Verity also gets to dance more. Then Dominic de […]
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4/19/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:30 | | Tags: #CBR10, Incryptid, Malin, midnight blue-light special, paranormal fantasy, Seanan McGuire | Category: Fantasy, Fiction, Romance | 2 Comments
Albert’s Tree
Albert's Tree by Jenni Desmond
It is SPRING! And Albert cannot wait to find his favorite tree and enjoy the always so quiet and peaceful branches. As well as taking another nap in those same said branches. However, while trying to relax, all of a sudden, the tree starts crying. It has never done that before. What could be casing it? Albert sees that nothing has changed (it even tastes the same when he’s upside down). When Albert and some of his forest friends try different tricks that work for them when they need cheering up, nothing seems to work for the tree. It is […]
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4/19/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:87 |
Alma
Alma and How She Got Her Name by Juana Martinez-Neal
Names are a funny thing. Growing up how many of us hated our names? I wanted to be something exotic (why I choose the nickname Raven. They are smart, clever, mischievous and even magical. Yes, a little dark, too…) Long story short, as a child my name and I had a love/hate relationship (I loved to hate it….) However, once I got older I learned the story of my name. I am named after a great-aunt and a grandmother. I would have been named Dominique if my mother had her way (probably why I always wanted something a little more […]
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4/19/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:86 |
White Dudes Walking
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson
When I picked up this book as the April selection for my local library book club, I was puzzled. “Why are we reading a book about white dudes walking the Appalachian Trail, written in the 90s?” I still don’t have an answer to that question. I mostly find it entertaining because, as has been common in my experience, my local library book club is entirely populated with women, and white women at that, so we are an interesting audience for Bryson’s exercising in navel gazing and personal exploration. This book tells the story of Bryson and his friend Katz’s (an […]
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4/19/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:16 | | Tags: #memoir, a walk in the woods, Appalachian Trail, Bill Bryson, nature | Category: Uncategorized | 1 Comment
Hillbilly Elegy – an arresting title and an arresting story
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance
J.D. Vance is an ivy-league educated lawyer. He has all the trappings of the heralded American dream – rewarded for hard work and diligence, he has a good job, a loving wife, and a nice home. But to get there, he had to first rise above (and in many instances, simply survive) the poverty of his surroundings in Kentucky and his “crazy hillbilly” family. Vance paints a clear portrait of Appalachia that is dire and often hopeless. As a person having a graduate degree that works at a university, and has always worked in academia, I have a considerable boundary […]
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4/19/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:15 | | Tags: #memoir, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, J.D. Vance, trumps america | Category: Biography/Memoir | 0 Comments
There is No Law that Gods Must be Fair
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
In anticipation of Madeline Miller’s new novel, Circe, being released (it just arrived in the mail!) I decided to do a reread of The Song of Achilles, which was one of my favorite reads from the past couple of years. And I will say, it was just as good the second time around, if not a little more painful in seeing more of the foreshadowing and understanding the deeper meaning of certain lines earlier in the novel before the course of action takes place. Okay, I know that the overall plot is pretty well established and known already, but this […]
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4/18/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:18 |