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Caitycat

I like books, but my eyes are bigger than my stomach. Disclaimer: I do not actually eat books.

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This was just a sad invention/It wasn’t real, I know

Dear Evan Hansen by Val Emmich

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“We start with stars in our eyes/We start believing that we belong/But every sun doesn’t rise/And no one tells you where you went wrong…” Fresh off my obsession with the musical Hamilton, I decided to check out the show Dear Evan Hansen. As I am a poor woman who doesn’t live anywhere near Broadway, I did this by listening to the soundtrack. It’s sad and amazing and so emotional. When I received the Dear Evan Hansen novelization from Pajiba Krampus Exchange, I was excited for more insight into a show that I’ve only heard in song form (And once I […]

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2/27/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:2 |

Son, when you grow up will you be the savior of the broken, the beaten, and the damned?

Umbrella Academy Vol. 1: The Apocalypse Suite by Gerard Way, Gabriel Ba

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I became interested in reading this series after watching the trailer for the upcoming Netflix series. It looks very fun and Wes Anderson-esquely quirky. So, I figured it was a good excuse to read the graphic novels first. In a mysterious worldwide event, forty-seven women, most of whom had not shown signs of pregnancy, gave birth. Of these children, millionaire inventor Reginald Hargreeves, AKA the Monocle, managed to track down and adopt seven. His reason for collecting the children? “To save the world.” The children are gifted with powers that they use to fight villains and save the day, though […]

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

“It’s not like in the movies. It’s better, because it’s real.”

To All the Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han

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I will be using this review for the “The Book Was Better?” square in CBR10 Book Bingo. “Love is scary: it changes; it can go away. That’s the part of the risk. I don’t want to be scared anymore…” I admit it: I watched the Netflix movie before I read the book. I have a weakness for teen rom-com cheesy goodness, the waiting lists at the library were massive, and I really wanted to know what all the Buzzfeed stories were about. Of course, I absolutely loved the movie. Lara Jean was adorable, Peter Kavinsky was adorable, they got up […]

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10/3/2018 's CBR10 Review No:7 |

“I’m basically your resident fat Slytherin Rory Gilmore.”

Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli

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I’m using this review to fill my Birthday! square, as Becky Albertalli’s birthday is November 17th. “Imagine going about your day knowing someone’s carrying you in their mind. That has to be the best part of being in love- the feeling of having a home in some else’s brain…” I loved Simon Vs. the Homosapien Agenda and The Upside of Unrequited, so of course I wanted to read Albertalli’s newest book. Leah on the Offbeat is more of a direct sequel to Simon, as Upside focused on different characters on the very outskirts of the universe. Here, Simon’s friend Leah […]

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8/7/2018 's CBR10 Review No:6 |

The Kiss Quotient

The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang

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This review will fill the “Not in My Wheelhouse” square. I believe I have stated this before on here, but I’m not much of a Romance girl. There seems to be a stereotype of women loving their little mass market paperbacks of billionaires seducing young ingenues or Fabio with an open shirt kissing a woman with a heaving bosom. Of course, not all women are into these things, and if they are, that’s their business and they aren’t hurting anyone, so who cares? But I digress…romance isn’t my thing, which is why I surprised myself by enjoying the Cannonball Read […]

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8/6/2018 's CBR10 Review No:5 |

“There’s nothing like a few severed heads to take your mind off politics…”

Dread Nation by Justina Ireland

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“It’s a cruel, cruel world. And the people are the worst part…” Dread Nation invites its readers to imagine an alternate history of the United States. During the terrible years of the Civil War the dead began to rise. They feasted upon the living changing them into zombies, or shamblers, as they prefer here. The war was set aside to focus on the more pressing threat. The slaves were set free, but still weren’t given much freedom. Young black men and women were sent to special schools to be trained to fight the undead, as they were thought to have […]

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5/17/2018 's CBR10 Review No:4 |

So many ways to die…

And Then You're Dead by Cody Cassidy and Paul Doherty

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And Then You’re Dead was very appealing to me. Each chapter focuses on a specific way a human can and has died, but it cranks everything up to 11. I learned so many fun facts to tell people when I’m invited to parties. Although the fact that I’m interested in this book is probably why nobody invites me to parties. The chapters detail the many ways you can die, from being sucked out an airplane window (You actually can’t get sucked all the way out, you’d just make it halfway and then flop violently against the plane) to being a […]

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5/17/2018 's CBR10 Review No:3 |

I’m not sure I understood it, but I liked it?

Doom Patrol Vol. 1: Brick By Brick by Gerard Way, Nick Derington, and Tamra Bonvillain

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“The world is hard and unforgiving, it can change you. Because we’re made up of all the things that happen to us. The good things fill your heart. But the bad things, and what we choose to do with them, really make us who we are…” Okay, so this was a weird one and I’m not sure I grasped everything that went down. I’m not at all familiar with Doom Patrol, so I don’t have any prior knowledge coming into this. I liked My Chemical Romance, so the Gerard Way factor was a positive, and it did look intriguingly weird. […]

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5/17/2018 's CBR10 Review No:0 |


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