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I bet just you love that Mr. Darcy, and your sentimental heart beats widely at the thought that he and, well, you know, whatever her name is, are truly, honestly going to end up together.

Alex, Approximately by Jenn Bennett

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Tell me there’s a book based on You’ve Got Mail and I’m pretty much going to read it immediately. Which is what I did with Alex, Approximately and I found it UTTERLY DELIGHTFUL. (Sidenote: I don’t know of any other books based on You’ve Got Mail/The Shop Around the Corner/Parfumerie but if you do, why haven’t you told me about them yet?) I digress. Back to Alex, Approximately. Bailey is a classic film loving teen who moves across the country to live with her dad, having grown apart from her mother, for reasons we will discover much later. She’s been […]

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2/14/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:6 |

Is butter a carb?

Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler

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I’ve been trying to make a conscious effort to read outside my wheelhouse. Somewhere along the way, I got stuck in Fantasy/Sci-Fi/Dystopian/Romance/YA, or WHATEVER MADE UP WORLD GENRE I could find because why read unless you can escape to a better or more interesting world than the one you’re currently inhabiting? The problem there is that I sometimes fall into a book rut and need to dig my way out by way of something different. At that point, I usually decide to read a book based in reality (ugh). And every time I do, I remember that I DO actually […]

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2/12/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:5 |

It feels like somebody took my heart and dropped it into a bucket of boiling tears.

My Oxford Year by Julia Whelan

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I’m so torn on this book. I was all set to rip into it for not being the book I wanted it to be, which was a story about a young American woman’s lighthearted romp through the English countryside while she led a Harry Potter-esque existence (keeping the book magic, losing the outright magic) during her tenure at Oxford. Who wouldn’t want to live vicariously through such a character? This is what I got for the first half of the book. Ella arrives in England jetlagged and smelling like someone who spent the better part of a day on a […]

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1/29/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:4 |

Those who’ve seen us, know that not a thing could come between us

The Favorite Sister by Jessica Knoll

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According to Goodreads, this is the second book I’ve read by Jessica Knoll. I have a vague memory of reading Luckiest Girl Alive, which Goodreads says I read in November of 2016. I trust Goodreads more than my own brain in this case, because I have very little memory of that book and I apparently didn’t review it. I gave it four stars, though, which is (at least) one more star than I’d give The Favorite Sister. I wouldn’t say I particularly enjoyed reading The Favorite Sister, but I was compelled enough by the whodunit/what-happened scenario to keep reading. The […]

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1/28/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:3 |

Nolite te bastardes carborundorum

Vox by Christina Dalcher

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Lately, I’ve been escaping into sci-fi, fantasy, and romance novels so often that I felt I needed a dose of reality. Vox might have been too much reality. Parts of it infuriated me so much that I had to put the book in the freezer down to allow my blood pressure to drop. So, not super relaxing, but it was good. Vox is told in the same vein as The Handmaid’s Tale, wherein our heroine is suffering through a grim dystopian future. Though there are similarities, this story holds its own…or I just love depressing myself with similar potential dystopian […]

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

XOXO, Gossip Girl

My Favorite Half-Night Stand by Christina Lauren

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This was the last book I read in 2018, after a week and a half of sloth and gluttony and travel and ZERO READING because it turns out if I exhaust all of my introverted tendencies with an overabundance of alcohol and sugar and family and friend time (which I love!) because we’re only home a few times a year so we have to SQUEEZE IT ALL IN, I have no brainpower left to read. It’s quite sad, really. I still feel a bit like I have no brainpower, even though we’ve been back for a while, because I didn’t […]

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

You Solo’ed Me?!

The Madwoman Upstairs by Catherine Lowell

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Do you ever finish a book and just KNOW you’re about to get thrown into a book rut? For me, it happens when I unexpectedly end up reading the perfect book at the perfect time. I rush to finish it, even though I fear nearing the end because it means it’ll all be over soon, and this world I’ve been living in, these characters I’ve become friends with, will soon be gone. As soon as I close the book, I wish I could start it all over again, yet I know it won’t be the same because I already know […]

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8/22/2018 's CBR10 Review No:8 |

Nothing here is real, nothing here is right.

The Iron King by Julie Kagawa

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I’ve gotten to the point of CBR where I’ve got too many books banked, and I haven’t written any of the reviews for them, which means that by the time I get around to writing the review, I barely remember what the book is about. MUST BE MARCH. The Iron Fey is one of those YA series that I picked up because I ran across it on Goodreads, and it had goodish reviews, and I was bored, and MAGIC, but I’m not sure I’ll continue with the series. The first book in the series, The Iron King, is about a […]

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3/21/2018 's CBR10 Review No:7 |


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