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About Jenny S

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By day (and night really), I teach writing and run a writing center at a community college in the Chicago suburbs. However, my superpowers include racking up large library fines and creating towering stacks of to-read books next to my bed.

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One Belongs to New York Instantly, One Belongs to It as Much in Five Minutes as Five Years

The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin

July 25, 2021 by Jenny S Leave a Comment

You know when you read a good book but you know it will just be impossible to summarize OR at least impossible to summarize well?  N.K. Jemisin’s novel, The City We Became, is one of those books.  It’s the first book in a new trilogy and now I’m bummed that I have to wait for her to finish writing book 2 and 3. But I have to give you some sort of clue of what it’s about so here goes.  New York City is alive […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: cbr13bingo, n.k. jemisin

Jenny S's CBR13 Review No:10 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: cbr13bingo, n.k. jemisin ·
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The Danger of a Simple Story – Antebellum Version

Washington Black by Esi Edugyan

July 17, 2021 by Jenny S Leave a Comment

This book has been on my bookshelf since December 2019 when my mom, sister, and I started doing our own version of Jolabokaflod. I’ve been meaning to read it but it took two short vacations for me to make time to actually dive into the life of George Washington Black, a young slave living on a plantation in Barbados.  Esi Edugyan’s novel is brutal and hauntingly written and totally not what I expected. The novel begins in the 1830’s where a 10-year-old George Washington Black, […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbr13bingo, Esi Edugyan, jolabokaflod

Jenny S's CBR13 Review No:9 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr13bingo, Esi Edugyan, jolabokaflod ·
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Don’t Mess with the Dairy Queen

Bad Axe County by John Galligan

July 5, 2021 by Jenny S 2 Comments

CBR13 Book Bingo Challenge:  NEW SERIES So last week I joined some college friends at a rented cabin near Richland Center, Wisconsin, for a couple of days (which is about 75 minutes NW of Madison for those of you playing at home).  We went into Spring Green one day and stopped at Arcadia Books for coffee and some browsing.  I saw a display for the upcoming release of John Galligan’s mystery novel, Bad Moon Rising, that included a stack of his earlier books and thought, […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: cbr13bingo, first in a series, John Galligan

Jenny S's CBR13 Review No:8 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: cbr13bingo, first in a series, John Galligan ·
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But They Made Up Their Minds, If All Roads were Blind, They Wouldn’t Give Up Till They Died

She Rides Shotgun by Jordan Harper

July 5, 2021 by Jenny S Leave a Comment

Brutal and beautifully written, Jordan Harper’s debut novel, She Rides Shotgun, hooked me before the end of the first chapter and was hard to put down even as I wanted to look away.  The body count is high but so was my investment in the main characters, eleven-year-old Polly McCluskey and her ex-con father, Nate. When Nate shows up at Polly’s school, Polly knows something is off because she thought her dad was still in prison.  What she doesn’t know is that her mom and […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: debut novel, Edgar Award Winner, jordan harper

Jenny S's CBR13 Review No:7 · Genres: Fiction, Suspense · Tags: debut novel, Edgar Award Winner, jordan harper ·
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Never Underestimate the New York Transit System

One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston

July 5, 2021 by Jenny S Leave a Comment

At the beginning of 2020 and thanks to many glowing CBR reviews, I devoured Casey McQuiston’s first novel, Red, White, and Royal Blue, which was just the mix of humor and escapism I needed at that moment (little knowing what a raging dumpster fire the next year would be).  I knew I would be on board for whatever McQuiston did next. Though a time-travel love story set in a New York subway was not quite what I expected, I found One Last Stop to be […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: #ModernRomance, Casey McQuiston, NYC

Jenny S's CBR13 Review No:6 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: #ModernRomance, Casey McQuiston, NYC ·
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The Next-to-Last Time I was Shot Out of a Cannon (and other often strangely fantastical stories)

Fly Already by Etgar Keret

June 8, 2021 by Jenny S Leave a Comment

One of many things I like about my current book club is that the choosing of titles is a collaboration (involving initial nominations and then a round of voting) to determine our reads for the full year.  As a result, the books are a mix of things I have heard of (and want to read and/or have read) and books/authors that are totally unknown to me.  This book of short stories by Etgar Keret, an Israeli author, falls into the latter category. After the first […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Short Stories Tagged With: book club, Etgar Keret, Israeli authors, short stories

Jenny S's CBR13 Review No:5 · Genres: Fiction, Short Stories · Tags: book club, Etgar Keret, Israeli authors, short stories ·
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