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Mom of three. Full-time job, full-time life. Like cats, books, movies, chocolate and wine.

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Good, Could’ve Been Great

Among the Ten Thousand Things: A Novel by Julia Pierpont

March 4, 2016 by ABR Leave a Comment

About 130 pages into Among the Ten Thousand Things, the author, Julia Pierpont, starts a new section of her book with the title “That Year and Those That Followed.” In the following chapter Pierpont’s story jumps forward many years. Up to this point she had carefully unveiled her characters and plot. It was detailed and purposeful. And then, all of a sudden, it jumps forward years. And from that point forward I lost interest in the book. It’s as if she didn’t know what to say when […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: CBR8, debut, Fiction, Pierpont

ABR's CBR8 Review No:2 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: CBR8, debut, Fiction, Pierpont ·
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To All the Men I’ve Loved Before

Dear Mr. You by Mary Louise-Parker

January 20, 2016 by ABR Leave a Comment

When my local paper reviewed “Dear Mr. You” by Mary-Louise Parker, the reviewer compared Parker’s writing to Anne Lamott. Since Lamott is possibly my favorite writer I thought “Dear Mr. You” would be a good place to start my Cannonball Read. From what I understand, a friend of Parker’s submitted the book to various publishers without disclosing Parker as the author so I would assume it was published on its own merits. And it is an interesting book. Written as a series of letters to 34 men […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #memoir, women writers

ABR's CBR8 Review No:1 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: #memoir, women writers ·
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The Eyes of Others Our Prisons

Orange Is the New Black by Piper Kerman

January 15, 2014 by ABR Leave a Comment

Orange Is the New Black is the memoir by Piper Kerman that has been turned into the popular Netflix series of the same name. As the novel begins Kerman is a recent Smith college graduate who longs to

Filed Under: Non-Fiction

ABR's CBR6 Review No:1 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: ·
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