This is kind of a weird one, y’all! The previous Answerer gets to nominate the next Cannon Fodder Q&Aer, and Ellesfena picked…me! So MsWas and her merry band turned the tables on me this time. Thanks to the CBR helpers for coming up with the below questions.
I do not feel each letter any more than you see each letter as you see and read.
Story of My Life by Helen Keller
You know it’s 2019 that as I read a memoir from 1903, written by a woman in Alabama, I am on edge but then relieved that we made it through the whole thing without a use of the “N-word!” But that’s not being fair. You, like I have, have probably read or seen The Miracle Worker. If you’re like me, that doesn’t mean you’ve ever read the original memoir that Helen Keller wrote. And it’s perfectly good and a good early example (or at least 20th century example of a few things). One, it’s a celebrity memoir and widely popular. […]
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2/21/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:105 |
“You take one accident, why, that’s too bad. Everybody’s sorry. Poor Nell.”
Mischief by Charlotte Armstrong
This is an intense and crazy little book. It’s like a combination of Adventures in Babysitting and The Bad Seed, or what would happen if I let my bad little kitten babysit. So the novel begins with a a married couple preparing in a hotel to go out to an event held in the honor of the husband. He is to give a speech! As they’re preparing, their babysitting plans for their 9 year old daughter “Bunny” fall through and they have to decide between the mother staying with her, cancelling, or taking up the kindly elevator operator’s offer to […]
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2/21/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:104 |
“It’s impossible to know if we were a good thing that broke somehow or a bad thing that eventually became exposed. “
Something in the Water by Catherine Steadman
Something in the Water got a lot of attention last year; Steadman’s debut novel was nominated for two Goodreads Choice awards and was Reese Witherspoon’s June Book Club read. I borrowed this one from the library based on these facts so I didn’t know much about the novel going in which is sometimes best with thrillers. “I notice my sudden jump in logic. From making a mistake to actively committing a crime. Just like that. I wonder if that’s how it starts with a lot of criminals…” Erin is a documentary film maker who is weeks away from her wedding when […]
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2/20/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:16 |
Everything You’ve Ever Wanted to Eat But Were Afraid to Cook
Maangchi's Real Korean Cooking: Authentic Dishes for the Home Cook by Maangchi
Preface: I’m a white lady. I was introduced to Korean food when I was 18, and fell instantly in love. I’ve been cooking Korean food for 25 years, and not to brag, but my Korean husband, his family, and friends tell me I’m pretty dang good. Most of it I’ve learned from watching people cook, or reverse engineering what I’ve eaten. But when I get stuck trying to figure something out, or I want the authoritative recipe on something I’ve never made before, I go to Maangchi. Maanghci (aka Emily Kim) is a YouTube star, famous for cooking her favorite Korean food […]
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Out March 12
Truth in Our Times by David E. McCraw
Disclaimer: The publisher sent me an ARC in exchange for a fair and honest review. I am also a subscriber to the Times. On the day I finished reading this ARC, the President of the United States called the New York Times an “enemy of the people,” and the Times itself carried an article about a reporter being detained and kicked out of Egypt. Additionally, the President tweeted support of a lawsuit against the Washington Post. And a supreme court judges wants the court to re-evaluates the Times vs Sullivan case. Talk about timing. David E. McCraw is a lawyer […]
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Notorious Pleasures is the title, not the reading experience
Notorious Pleasures by Elizabeth Hoyt
I read the first book in this, the Maiden Lane series, but didn’t do a write up for it before starting book two and now it has sort of evaporated out of my head so I am just going to skip that one and go straight into Notorious Pleasures. Notorious Pleasures deals with Lady Hero Batten, the lovely, proper, and dutiful sister of the Duke of Wakefield, who is about to be engaged to Thomas Reading, the Marquess of Mandeville. The book opens with her having entered a small room to adjust her wayward stocking at a ball, only to […]
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2/20/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:5 | 
| Tags: alphabootoo, cbr11, Elizabeth Hoyt, Maiden Lane Series, Notorious Pleasures | Category: Fiction, Romance | 0 Comments
I would hire Arthur Dogger & Associates.
The Golden Tresses of the Dead (Flavia de Luce, #10) by Alan Bradley
Flavia (and Dogger) continue to delight me. The mysteries continue to frustrate me. Will I continue to read this series (even though this was originally supposed to be the last book)? Most likely. The book opens at Flavia’s sister’s wedding to the German POW Dieter. Feely finds a severed finger in her wedding cake. She loses it and almost ruins her own wedding; Flavia is fascinated, and quickly tucks the finger away. Whose finger is it? Who put it there? Why? Flavia and Dogger are on the case, with their new investigative business, Arthur Dogger & Associates. And they have their […]
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2/20/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:23 | | Tags: alan bradley, flavia de luce, mystery, narfna, the golden tresses of the dead | Category: Mystery | 0 Comments
Cozy re-read.
Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
Quick review for a re-read. I still love this book. It’s still a great character study of Cath, who has anxiety and abandonment issues, and has huddled in on herself like a turtle, afraid to put out feelers to the outside world. She uses reading and writing fanfiction as an outlet for her creativity, and a way to forget herself for a while, but she wants to be a professional writer, and that means a type of writing she isn’t comfortable with yet, a type of writing that is personal and uncomfortable, for which you have to be present at […]
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2/20/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:22 | | Tags: fandom, fanfiction, Fangirl, narfna, Rainbow Rowell, Romance? | Category: Fiction, Romance | 2 Comments