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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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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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Alright, alright, alright…

Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey

January 27, 2021 by Caitlin_D 1 Comment

*taps microphone* Is this thing on? Last January I decided not to sign up for CBR12 because I was anticipating the arrival of my son and figured I wouldn’t have a lot of time to devote to reading and reviewing. Between maternity leave and a pandemic related furlough I spent 4 months trying to stay sane when the only person I saw all day, every day didn’t speak English and required me to wipe his butt 10 times a day. I don’t think I read […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Celebrity Memoir, Greenlights, Matthew McConaughey

Caitlin_D's CBR13 Review No:1 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: Celebrity Memoir, Greenlights, Matthew McConaughey ·
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Fiction Year End Round Up

Mrs. Fletcher by Tom Perotta

The Chelsea Girls by Fiona Davis

Lost Roses by Martha Hall Kelley

Mrs Everything by Jennifer Weiner

The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness

Rich People Problems by Kevin Kwan

Bird Box by Josh Malerman

The Inpossible Fortress by Jason Rekulak

You Bring the Distant Near by Mitali Perkins

December 30, 2019 by Caitlin_D 1 Comment

As previously mentioned in my non fiction round up I have failed miserably at Cannonballing this year while still managing to hit my Goodreads Reading Challenge goal. My hope had been to finish my backlog today at work but, while we weren’t very busy there were more people around so I never quite found time to play around on the Internet. Therefore these are going to be even more bare bones than my non-fiction round up. Fiction: The Chelsea Girls – Fiona Davis I read […]

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Caitlin_D's CBR11 Review No:121 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: ·
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Non Fiction End of Year Round- Up

The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple by Jeff Guinn

The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster by Sarah Krasnostein

Nice Try: Stories of Best Intentions and Mixed Results by Josh Gondelman

People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo- and the Evil that Swallowed Her Up by Richard Lloyd Parry

Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant by Joel Golby

The Library Book by Susan Orlean

December 26, 2019 by Caitlin_D 1 Comment

I think it is safe to say I completely fell off the CBR wagon but as the year draws to a close, and my office currently has a total of five people in, I wanted to try and get caught up on reviews. This seemed like a perfectly reasonable task until I wrote out every book title I still needed to review and realized I was nineteen books behind while still actively reading two other books. So in lieu of complete, well thought out reviews […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant, jeff guinn, Joel Golby, Josh Gondelman, Nice Try: Stories of Best Intentions and Mixed Results, People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo- and the Evil that Swallowed Her Up, Richard Lloyd Parry, Sarah Krasnostein, Susan Orlean, the library book, The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple, The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death Decay and Disaster

Caitlin_D's CBR11 Review No:112 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant, jeff guinn, Joel Golby, Josh Gondelman, Nice Try: Stories of Best Intentions and Mixed Results, People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo- and the Evil that Swallowed Her Up, Richard Lloyd Parry, Sarah Krasnostein, Susan Orlean, the library book, The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple, The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death Decay and Disaster ·
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