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Wales Finally Gets Its Due

Here Be Dragons by Sharon Kay Penman

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From the time I was a teenager through a good portion of my twenties, historical fiction was my go to genre.  John Jakes, James Michener, Edward Rutherford and others were among some my most reliable authors.  Michener and Rutherford would take one location, and use one or two families across the centuries (or millennia) to hit the highlights of English, Polish or Hawaiian history in one comprehensive tome, while John Jakes wrote sweeping family dramas spanning several books.  I also loved novels like The Mists of Avalon because it was mostly historical fiction with some fantasy aspects and from the […]

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4/17/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:59 |

Against Forgetting

Night by Elie Wiesel

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Every once in a while I discover odd gaps in the books I have read, and Night was one of those. Since I learned to read German before I learned to read English, and spent K-7 in the German school system, I usually tend to assume I have read certain childhood classics or novels commonly read in middle school, but under a German name where the translated title doesn’t quite match up.  This was especially the case with the book, Night, which blurs the line between memoir and autobiographical fiction. Germany (at least when I was growing up there 25 […]

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4/17/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:58 |

Wacky Neighbor, Loyal Dog, and Please Make the Potential Love Interest Go Away

Hounded by Kevin Hearne

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thewheelbarrow’s review of the last novel of this series reminded me that I had meant to check this out a long time ago when a few people reviewed the first in the series.  Atticus Sullivan runs a new age bookstore and tea shop in Tempe, Arizona and looks like he is around 21 years old.  In reality, he is a 2,100 year old druid and has been on the run from one man, the Celtic god of love, for about 2,000 of those years.  Atticus and a few other supernatural beings (a vampire, a werewolf pack and a witch coven) […]

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4/17/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:57 |

I Keep Forgetting I Read This …

The Forgotten Ones by Steena Holmes

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After years without contact from his daughter, David Walker is on his deathbed at the local hospital, and ends up making one last effort to connect with his family, reaching out to his granddaughter.  Elle is surprised when she discovers her grandfather is not only still alive, but a patient at the same hospital where she works and her best friend’s current favorite patient.  Elle’s mom, Marie has long refused to talk about her past, and even now, Elle is afraid to confront her due to Marie’s lifelong identity disorder.  While Marie is doing well at the moment, a discussion […]

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4/17/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:56 |

Since When Does Dina Have a Sister?

One Fell Sweep by Ilona Andrews

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I really need to start following authors on Facebook or Twitter! Partially, I just don’t have the patience to check weekly to see if there are updates to a story published by chapter, but I also just forget about these things.  As a result, when I checked on the Ilona Andrews website, I discovered that not only where they already a few chapters into a new Innkeeper Chronicles novel, but I had completely missed the entire third novel since I had no clue who this Maud character was. After the successful conclusion of the peace talks in the second novel, […]

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4/17/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:55 |

Snow White Trades in Woodland Creatures for a Badge

Indexing by Seanan McGuire

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Being caught up on all the InCryptid novels and the short stories/novellas that are available for free (there are a few more in collections I don’t feel like paying for yet), I continued down the Seanan McGuire rabbit hole to this novel.  While it didn’t grip me as quickly as the InCryptid series, I enjoyed the concept, and ended up having fun once I got used to the characters and the team. This was originally written as a Kindle Serial, and while it is now a complete novel, it is obvious that this was released in parts since the chapters […]

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4/17/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:54 |

Someone needs to live to tell the story …

The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish

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I don’t remember how this novel ended up on my radar but it was in my Kindle’s TBR pile, and I figured it was a good time to start slowly working my way through some of the back log. The Weight of Ink is one of those novels with a split time line, with some parts taking place in the early 21st century, while the main story is set in London in 1650s to 1660s. Helen Watt is history professor on the verge of retirement when a former student contacts her about some documents he and his wife have discovered […]

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4/17/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:53 |

A Bit Late to the Party on This One, But Still Relevant

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

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I have had this book on my iPad forever! Seriously, I think I downloaded it before 13th, the Netflix documentary, was even a development idea. I watched 13th last year, and yet it didn’t spur me to pick this up, but after reading The Hate U Give, this felt like a fitting follow up. I remember being very impressed by 13th, but the nice thing about reading this, is that it really gave me the chance to absorb and contemplate everything, rather than being hit by one shocking statement after another with no time to digest.  I am also curious […]

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4/5/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:52 |


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