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About Caitlin_D

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I skipped CBR for 2020 because I was expecting my first child and knew time would be finite. Then the world imploded and I missed the crap out of y'all. Plus I read so much less without y'all's recommendations!

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“This book is an experiment. We figured it out as we went along. Sort of like a family.”

The New One: Painfully True Stories From a Reluctant Dad by Mike Birbiglia

February 5, 2021 by Caitlin_D Leave a Comment

I was not prepared for Mike Birbiglia’s The New One. TW Jen’s pregnancy has some high risk scary situations but, spoiler alert, the baby is OK because this story is about her first year on Earth… I am a new mom. My son will be one year old in fifteen days and has spent 99% of his life in a pandemic. He has met approximately a dozen people all but three of which he met in the first three weeks of his life before the true impact […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: mike birbiglia, the new one, The New One: Painfully True Stories from a Reluctant Dad

Caitlin_D's CBR13 Review No:6 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: mike birbiglia, the new one, The New One: Painfully True Stories from a Reluctant Dad ·
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More than just a YA romance

More Than Just a Pretty Face by Syed M. Masood

February 5, 2021 by Caitlin_D Leave a Comment

Danyal Jilani is a confident, attractive high school senior whose life ambition is to be a chef. As a Muslim man this is considered a frivolous life goal and it causes a lot of problems with his father. He has a huge crush on his friend’s sister, Kaval, but his lack of educational ambition makes him an unlikely match for someone who prizes a traditionally educated husband who can provide her a comfortable lifestyle. Danyal’s parents, knowing their son will have limited options, have begun […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: More Than Just a Pretty Face, Syed M. Masood

Caitlin_D's CBR13 Review No:5 · Genres: Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: More Than Just a Pretty Face, Syed M. Masood ·
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“Boats that stay in the harbor are safe, sweetheart, but that’s not what boats were built for.”

Anxious People by Fredrik Backman

February 5, 2021 by Caitlin_D 2 Comments

Fredrik Backman is easily one of my favorite authors. He consistently writes beautiful, gut twisting novels filled with believable characters who are often painted as fairly average, ordinary people thrust into somewhat extraordinary scenarios. If you haven’t read Beartown and Us Against You you’re really missing out on poetically breaking your heart into itty bitty little pieces. “This story is about a lot of things, but mostly about idiots. So it needs saying from the outset that it’s always very easy to declare that other people are idiots, […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: anxious people, Fredrik Backman

Caitlin_D's CBR13 Review No:4 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: anxious people, Fredrik Backman ·
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Stop trying to make known villains into troubled protagonists

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins

January 27, 2021 by Caitlin_D 1 Comment

I don’t know why I read The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes other than the fact I am a completionist and it is officially part of The Hunger Games trilogy because it is a pet peeve of mine when authors play revisionist history within their canon. Our protagonist is Coriolanus Snow, a Capital resident who is finishing up high school and tapped to mentor in the 10th annual Hunger Games. On the line as a mentor is the opportunity to attend the University on a scholarship and while […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Suzanne Collins, the ballad of songbirds and snakes, The Hunger Games

Caitlin_D's CBR13 Review No:3 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Suzanne Collins, the ballad of songbirds and snakes, The Hunger Games ·
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Gemini Soul

Let Love Rule by Lenny Kravitz

January 27, 2021 by Caitlin_D Leave a Comment

I did not set out to read back to back hippie-esq A lister’s memoirs but Lenny Kravitz’s memoir, Let Love Rule, happened to become available on Overdrive the same week Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey was so here we are. If I had to choose between the two I would say Lenny’s story was more captivating and overall a better fit for my memoir preference. This is clearly a “first” memoir because he stops right as his first album is released but that is partly why it is […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Celebrity Memoir, Lenny Kravitz, Let Love Rule

Caitlin_D's CBR13 Review No:2 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: Celebrity Memoir, Lenny Kravitz, Let Love Rule ·
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