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Caitlin_D

I've always been an avid reader but CBR has been a great way to motivate me to seek out new authors and read more varied genres. Last year my goal was a double cannonball and more fiction. This year my goal is 120 books (10 per month) although I secretly harbor a hope to hit a triple...

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“It’s our memories that make us who we are – those moments that for whatever reason, big or small, stick in our brains, that make up our stories.”

A Short History of the Girl Next Door by Jared Reck

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Matty Wainwright and his best friend, Tabby, grew up across the street from each other in their idyllic suburban cul de sac. A few years ago Matty realized he was hopelessly in love with Tabby but is too afraid to do anything about it. Tabby is your typical YA heroine. She is beautiful, but doesn’t know it, smart and funny. She has a fiendish obsession with Nerds candy and will happily play with Murray, Matty’s four year old brother. Half way through Matty and Tabby’s freshman year of high school Tabby begins dating the most popular guy in school, a […]

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4/22/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:50 |

Biography of a Truly Despicable Woman

The Baby Thief: The Untold Story of Georgia Tann, the Baby Seller Who Corrupted Adoption by Barbara Bisantz Raymond

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“She was a relentless, cold-blooded demon, a female smiling Buddah, a very  wicked woman,” I was told by a Memphis pediatrician who’d tried vainly to curb her in the 1940s. “She got bigger and bigger the more power she had. She was pompous, self important- she was like Hitler, riding around in a big Cadillac driven by a uniformed chauffeur. She terrorized everyone.” I learned of Georgia Tann earlier this year while reading Before We Were Yours and was both fascinated and disgusted by the woman who, in a sick way, founded the modern system of adoption. During the late 19th century […]

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4/22/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:49 |

Not all that wander are lost

All Over the Place: Adventures in Travel, True Love, and Petty Theft by Geraldine DeRuiter

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I stumbled across Geraldine DeRuiter’s memoir All Over the Place while skimming Overdrive for my next audio book and was happily surprised to discover it was such a funny, heartfelt memoir. I’ve never read her blog, the Everywhereist, but I really enjoyed her self deprecating and open style of writing. While her blog, and by extension this memoir, are about travel that is just the surface of what DeRuiter covers. “Sometimes you can’t let a complete dearth of natural talent or ability stop you from doing something.” When Geraldine was laid off (this is my second book in a span of a week […]

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4/16/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:48 |

“The only way to stay sane is to go a little crazy.”

Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

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Girl, Interrupted is a short memoir focusing on the nearly two years Susanna Kaysen spent in a psychiatric hospital. Kaysen is initially admitted by a new doctor for a “break” but her stay turns into something more permanent and she is eventually diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. While her story seems almost unbelievable at times, as well as a gross misuse of power by her doctors and parents, she posts her medical charts as evidence to her tenure at McLean Hospital. It has been several years since I have seen the film adaptation of Girl, Interrupted but I had never read the memoir it was based […]

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4/16/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:47 |

Great Title. So-So Memoir.

Flat Broke with Two Goats: A Memoir of Appalachia by Jennifer McGaha

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“When you have gone through a sort of travesty of your own making, failure begins to feel like part of you. You get used to it.” Jennifer McGaha grew up in an upper middle class North Carolina family; after a volatile first marriage in college she reconnected with her high school boyfriend, David, and they got married. Despite being an accountant David managed to ruin the family’s finances during the Great Recession of 2008. Jennifer, an adjunct English teacher, was blissfully aware of her husband’s mismanagement of their finances until he woke her up one evening and confessed they owed […]

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4/13/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:46 |

“He had been pretending, then, to look into his past, when really he was looking into some alternate reality, some different version of his own history, some unseen world.”

The Unseen World by Liz Moore

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This was an outstanding book and I don’t want to give too much away so I apologize for the brevity of my review. Just know that I emphatically recommend Liz Moore’s The Unseen World! Ada Sibelius is being raised by her single father, David, in late 1970s Boston. Like her father Ada is very intelligent, prodigal even. She is home schooled by her father at his research lab in everything from computer science to literature and while she has no friends her own age she is very close with her father’s colleagues primarily his second in command, Liston. Liston and David’s […]

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4/13/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:45 |

“His power wasn’t something he possessed, but a skittish companions had to woo to his side, and who’d vanish as soon as he showed fear”

Spoonbenders by Daryl Gregory

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Spoonbenders is a slow burning story that I urge you to stick with despite its meandering narrative. I frequently put this one down and thought about giving up but my sister had warned me that it may take a while to get going so I stuck with it. Ultimately this is a strange but enjoyable book about the psychic Telemachus family in 1995 Chicago. “I can’t believe this is allowed by state law. You can’t just put a pile of shaved beef—” “Italian beef,” she said. “Italian beef on top of a sausage—” “Italian sausage.” “Right, and then they just let […]

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4/13/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:44 |

“But I have told the truth. Isn’t that ironic? They sent me because I am so good at telling lies. But I have told the truth.”

Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein

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Code Name Verity has made the rounds on Cannonball since its publication. I read a lot of books about WW2 and enjoy well written YA Fiction so it seemed like a perfect match to my tastes. We’re all friends here so I am going to be perfectly honest with you. I almost quit this book. A few times. I am so glad I did not. Unfortunately I can’t properly explain my initial reaction or my wholehearted turnaround without giving away the plot. So I shall do what the spies do and write in invisible ink. “I am no longer afraid of […]

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4/4/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:43 |


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