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Ellesfena

Public health nerd (there are dozens of us!), non-fiction lover, with a side of YA and mysteries. My real CBR goal is to have the titles of as many of my reviews as possible be Mountain Goats lyrics.

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Locked Up in Myself, Never Gonna Get Free

Monster by Walter Dean Myers

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The protagonist of Monster is Steve Harmon, a teenager on trial for murder. He is accused of being the lookout for a corner store robbery which ended in the death of the store owner. Steve is not accused of being the person who pulled the trigger, just the guy who signaled to the others that it was safe to enter the store, but he is still charged with murder. The story is framed as a screenplay he’s writing about his own life and his trial, with flashbacks to his life before his arrest thrown in. This book was thought-provoking, but […]

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4/19/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:23 |

Fortunately Gone, I Wait for You

Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple

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Where’d You Go, Bernadette is a perfectly fine book. I think a lot of people like it a lot. It’s the story of Bee, a teenager in Seattle, whose mother Bernadette disappears one day. Most of the book covers what leads up to her disappearance, while the end talks about the aftermath and the efforts to find her. I found this book quite engaging and finished it in just a few days. I liked the format (it’s mainly a series of emails sent between different characters, that Bee is reading to try and figure out what made her mother leave, […]

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3/24/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:22 |

There is No Life I Know to Compare with Pure Imagination

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is one of those books that was incredibly important in my formative years. My parents are both former schoolteachers, and firm believers in the importance of reading aloud to kids. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is my dad’s favorite kids’ book, so it stands to reason that this was one of the many books he chose to read to me when I was little. As an adult I have realized that it is not just the books I read as a child, but those that were read aloud to me when I was little, that […]

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3/18/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:21 |

Truth is More Important than Modesty

Boy: Tales of Childhood by Roald Dahl

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Roald Dahl was the most amazing storyteller. He had a knack for always using just the right word or turn of phrase to enthrall, amuse, or disgust his reader. Boy is the story of his early life, from birth until leaving school to work for the Shell Oil Company as a salesman prior to World War II. Somehow he turns even a typical British childhood into something truly special. Dahl grew up in Wales but was educated in England, per his father’s wishes. The most memorable parts of Boy deal with the culture of British boarding schools, particularly the discipline. […]

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3/18/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:20 |

I Will Be Made a New Creature, One Bright Day

Seraphina by Rachel Hartman

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A few months ago, someone posted in the CBR facebook group that Seraphina was on sale for Kindle. I went and bought it simply because it was cheap and the person said it was one of their favorite books. Whoever that person was, thank you, thank you, for introducing me to this fantastic book! Seraphina takes place in Goredd, a human country in a world where dragons and humans have had a peace treaty for many years. Dragons can take human form, but they have trouble understanding human emotions (Rick Riordan described them as half Vulcan, half Benedict Cumberbatch’s Sherlock, […]

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3/18/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:19 |

A Balloon of One’s Own

The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pene du Bois

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I’ve been reading a lot of children’s books lately, which is a delightful situation. And The Twenty-One Balloons, in particular, is a delightful book. I first read this book as a child and adored it, and I was so excited to read it again. The Twenty-One Balloons is the story of Professor William Waterman Sherman, a retired math teacher who’s sick of kids and is desperate for some solitude. He decides to take off in a hot-air balloon, with enough supplies to last him a year, and see where the wind takes him. It takes him to a most amazing […]

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3/14/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:18 |

The Cheese Stands Alone

The City Baker's Guide to Country Living by Louise Miller

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I am not the right audience for this book. I had forgotten I read The City Baker’s Guide to Country Living, but then I got the three-day reminder from my library that it was due back. Blast! So I went to Goodreads to see what my fellow readers were saying. That was a bit of a surprise, as it sure seems like people love this book. They LOVE it. I had to scroll down like 15 reviews before I got to one that was less than three stars. Same thing on Amazon. I actually feel a little bad reviewing it. […]

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3/14/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:17 |

Life Doesn’t Make Narrative Sense

The Little House Series by Laura Ingalls Wilder

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I cannot review the Little House books without talking about this: these books are racist. I hope that teachers or parents who are introducing these books to children for the first time are having serious discussions with these kids about racism and colonialism, and how these attitudes influenced westward expansion. As I was rereading these books (which, by the way, I loved as a kid and reread many times), I couldn’t stop thinking about the word “pioneer,” which in this case is just a euphemism for “invader.” We all know the story of the pioneers and the Native Americans, but […]

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3/4/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:16 |


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