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Loves to read. Loves to travel. Doesn't get to do either enough.

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Longing for the sound of an electric guitar

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

May 26, 2022 by esme Leave a Comment

I finally put this on my reading list after one of the CBR13 happy hours. Someone mentioned that Emily St. John Mandel had a new book coming out that they were looking forward to, and somehow I pulled that thread and made my way back to Station Eleven. I had been aware of it before that conversation, yet the blurb had never struck my fancy, likely because I have a very complicated relationship with dystopian fiction. Frankly, and as has been noted on this site […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: dystopia, Emily St. John Mandel, Fiction, public health

esme's CBR14 Review No:3 · Genres: Fiction, Suspense · Tags: dystopia, Emily St. John Mandel, Fiction, public health ·
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Instead of being afraid, I could become something to fear.

The Cruel Prince by Holly Black

May 4, 2022 by esme 2 Comments

I was in the mood for escape and The Folk of the Air series really delivered for me. It is a flawed series, and I’ll mention a bit of that as I look at the individual books, but I found it a delicious treat at the end of some pretty long days. The Cruel Prince, the first book in the series, introduces us to Jude, Taryn, Vivienne, Cardan, and other key players who feature throughout the trilogy. Jude, Taryn, and Vivi are children when we […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: #fantasy, Fiction, Holly Black, YA

esme's CBR14 Review No:2 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: #fantasy, Fiction, Holly Black, YA ·
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“Archer…dressed in the evening because he thought it cleaner and more comfortable to do so”

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

March 8, 2022 by esme 9 Comments

This is my first review of the year. I have been reading a lot, and enjoying what I read, but I’m just not ready to think about what I read. I was partway through The Age of Innocence when I realized this was a re-read, though from a decade or so ago. We meet Newland Archer (what a name!), a New York society gentleman in his early 20s, as he mostly sleepwalks through society – getting engaged to an appropriate ingénue, moving from home to […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Edith Wharton, Fiction, historical fiction

esme's CBR14 Review No:1 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Edith Wharton, Fiction, historical fiction ·
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She had been meant to die, yet she’d cut her way out of that fate and back to the world she loved.

The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey

December 15, 2021 by esme 3 Comments

With this review, I will finish my 1/4 CBR, so I am feeling very proud right now! I read The Widows of Malabar Hill some time ago – I mentioned sitting by the side of a lake in northern North Dakota in a previous review, and that is where I read this, as well. However, I had read quite a bit by Sujata Massey before – she had a series about a biracial detective, Rei Shimura, which often featured travel to Japan, and had pretty […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: female lead, historical mystery, India, Sujata Massey

esme's CBR13 Review No:13 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: female lead, historical mystery, India, Sujata Massey ·
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Little Jackie Paper loved that rascal Puff

Seraphina by Rachel Hartman

December 14, 2021 by esme 1 Comment

I read this book earlier this year as I sat by a lake in northern North Dakota. Now it is gray and chilly here in Memphis, but I still have the flavor of reading Seraphina, by Rachel Hartman, in my mind – sun setting late, a few leisurely boats motoring by, and a hummingbird hitting the nectar for the last time. Seraphina is a ungainly young woman living in the kingdom of Goredd. She has a knack for music and mathematics and lurking at the […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: #fantasy, Fiction, friendship, Rachel Hartman, thriller, Young Adult

esme's CBR13 Review No:12 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: #fantasy, Fiction, friendship, Rachel Hartman, thriller, Young Adult ·
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I can see a better time When all our dreams come true

The Stonekeeper's Curse by Kazu Kibuishi

December 14, 2021 by esme 2 Comments

Amazingly, I only discovered that I could download graphic novels to my library app a few weeks ago, and my son and I have been tearing through some pretty good ones since then. He mentioned that they read the first book in the Amulet series by Kazu Kibuishi, The Stonekeeper, at school, so we sought the second one. Thus, I went into reading this book with an 8 year old’s synopsis of the first book. Briefly, Emily has inherited a stone amulet that confers power, […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fantasy, Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: #fantasy, Children, family, Fiction, Graphic Novel, Kazu Kibuishi

esme's CBR13 Review No:11 · Genres: Children's Books, Fantasy, Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: #fantasy, Children, family, Fiction, Graphic Novel, Kazu Kibuishi ·
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