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“Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic” — Alex Haley

The Lines We Cross by Randa Abdel-Fattah

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(this book was also released in some places as When Michael Met Mina) “I’m starting to realize that being born into this social world is a little like being born into clean air. You take it in as soon as you breathe, and pretty soon you don’t even realize that while you can walk around with clear lungs, other people are wearing oxygen masks just to survive.” This is a boy meets girl, YA novel. In this instance, the boy is an Australian white kid who has inhaled his parents’ racism without a second thought. The girl watched her family die […]

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1/15/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:9 |

THIS is why I love CBR (and all you weirdos)

Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything by Lydia Kang, Nate Pedersen

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Y’all, crystalclear posted a review of Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything back in November and I immediately put it on hold at the library. It was everything I could have possibly wanted: weird medical facts, crazy pictures and graphics, and a wicked sense of humor. Thank you crystalclear – I will be amazed if this one doesn’t make my top 3 list 11 months from now! Okay, so the authors break the book into a few different sections. Each section covers all of the stupid weird/harmful/wtf things doctors and laypeople used to think might make people healthier (spoiler […]

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1/14/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:8 |

What a weird little book

My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh

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My Year of Rest and Relaxation is one of those books where you can’t put it down, but when you’re done, you’re not entirely sure if you liked it (or even what just happened). But in the end, I do think I liked this one. It felt very…Margaret Atwood-esque. “Sleep felt productive. Something was getting sorted out. I knew in my heart—this was, perhaps, the only thing my heart knew back then—that when I’d slept enough, I’d be okay. I’d be renewed, reborn. I would be a whole new person, every one of my cells regenerated enough times that the […]

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1/14/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:7 |

A short little homage to Richard Matheson

Elevation by Stephen King

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Elevation has been reviewed here at least once already, but I’ll give you a brief summary. Which will be easy, as it’s a rather brief book. “Hands on a clock, numbers on a bathroom scale, weren’t they only ways of trying to measure invisible forces that had visible effects?” Scott Carey lives in King’s well known little town of Castle Rock. He’s recently divorced, living alone with his cat, and has noticed something strange. He’s losing weight. Pretty steadily, in fact, and for no reason at all. And even more strangely, it has not affected his appearance at all. Meanwhile, […]

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1/11/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:6 |

Just REALLY well-written thrillers, guys

Unsub by Meg Gardiner

Into the Black Nowhere by Meg Gardiner

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If you like crime novels — I’m thinking Jeffrey Deaver, Preston/Child, Tami Hoag, all the ones I loved growing up — you should try this series out. Meg Gardiner has written two novels (so far) about Caitlin Hendrix, with a third and a procedural for CBS in the works. UNSUB “But fate was a myth constructed by fools—people who gamble or follow horoscopes, who believe the stars rule their lives.” The first novel, Unsub, introduces us to Caitlin as a narcotics detective in the Bay area. She’s dragged into a murder investigation when a serial killer called the Prophet reemerges after 25 […]

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1/11/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:5 |

I wanted so much more from this one

This Will Only Hurt a Little by Busy Philipps

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This book starts out so well — Busy has put up with a lot of shit during her years in Hollywood (I mean…James Franco alone…) and she pulls no punches calling out the hypocrisy and misogyny she has seen and fought. “Men love a woman who laughs at the joke, especially if the joke is at her expense. “She’s so cool. She just gets it.” Her happier stories are great reads, too — her triumphs and behind the scenes joys. But something starts to sort of slip about 2/3rds of the way through the book. She seems to have trouble […]

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1/9/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:3 |

British crime novels with double-meaning in the titles are becoming my jam

The Breakdown by B.A. Paris

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I listen to a lot of audiobooks — I walk or run about 40 miles a week, plus I like to listen to audiobooks while cleaning or cooking instead of having the tv on. I alternate between two genres, usually. I prefer audiobooks when tackling dense non-fiction subjects, because I know I tend to skim if I’m reading such things in text form, and British crime novels — the accents alone are worth the download. The Breakdown, which refers not only to the broken down car that leads to a woman’s murder, but also the subsequent slow unraveling of our main […]

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1/9/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:2 |

Triumphant may be an understatement

The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie ten Boom by Corrie ten Boom

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The Hiding Place, originally published in 1984 and rereleased more recently as an audiobook, kept me hooked for the whole 10 hour run-time. It definitely put the “difficult” activities I was performing while listening (taping and painting a bedroom) into perspective. “Surely there is no more wretched sight that the human body unloved and uncared for.” Corrie ten Boom spent the first 50 years of her life pleasantly and quietly. Her father’s family owned a watch business in Haarlem, and she worked alongside him repairing watches and, in what seemed to be her father’s true calling, caring for needy and/or […]

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1/2/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:1 |


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