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“What is a game? … It’s tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. It’s a possibility of infinite rebirth, infinite redemption. The idea that if you keep playing, you could win. No loss is permanent, because nothing is permanent, ever”.

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

August 12, 2022 by jomidi 1 Comment

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin is a pure delight. The best book I have read all year, and now one of my favorites ever. Zevin is the author of one of my other favorite books of all time, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, I was so excited to hear about this book especially when I discovered it was about video game designers. The story starts when Sam and Sadie meet in a play area in a hospital. Sam is undergoing treatment for a […]

Filed Under: Book Club, Fiction Tagged With: book group, Fiction, Gabrielle Zevin, video games

jomidi's CBR14 Review No:9 · Genres: Book Club, Fiction · Tags: book group, Fiction, Gabrielle Zevin, video games ·
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“Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.”

West with Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge

July 13, 2022 by jomidi Leave a Comment

West with Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge is a charming historical fiction. It is the coming of age story of “Woody Nickel”, a Dust Bowl orphan from the Texas Panhandle who travels cross country with a pair of giraffes. Rutledge, while researching a book on the San Diego Zoo, learned about two giraffes who arrived in NYC on a boat that barely survived the extremely destructive 1938 Long Island hurricane. The giraffes then traveled cross country to their new home at the San Diego Zoo. Using […]

Filed Under: Book Club, Fiction, History Tagged With: book club, coming-of-age, historical fiction, Lynda Rutledge

jomidi's CBR14 Review No:8 · Genres: Book Club, Fiction, History · Tags: book club, coming-of-age, historical fiction, Lynda Rutledge ·
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Strangers on a Train with no murder involved!

Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting by Clare Pooley

June 29, 2022 by jomidi 2 Comments

It took almost a full six months, but I think I have what might become my favorite book of 2022. Iona Iverson’s Rules for Commuting by Clare Pooley was a wonderful surprise. I grabbed this book from a library display (to complete a summer bingo card entry “read a book from a library display”).  I had enjoyed Pooley’s previous book, The Authenticity Project, so I decided to take a chance on her latest. Iona Iverson was somebody back in her day.  She and her girlfriend […]

Filed Under: Book Club, Comedy/Humor, Fiction Tagged With: book club, British, Clare Pooley, Fiction, funny, quirky

jomidi's CBR14 Review No:7 · Genres: Book Club, Comedy/Humor, Fiction · Tags: book club, British, Clare Pooley, Fiction, funny, quirky ·
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“It was the worst fact of parenthood, that what you did mattered so much more than anything you said”

This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub

June 22, 2022 by jomidi Leave a Comment

I love time travel. To me, nothing is better than a good time travel book. (I know I say this every time I review a book with time travel.) I have read and enjoyed Emma Straub’s other books, so I was eagerly looking forward to this one. I was thrilled when I learned it would have time travel in it. (Also, you have to love Straub, as she owns an independence book store in Brooklyn.) In This Time Tomorrow, Alice’s life at 40 is not […]

Filed Under: Book Club, Fiction Tagged With: Emma Straub, this time tomorrow, time travel

jomidi's CBR14 Review No:6 · Genres: Book Club, Fiction · Tags: Emma Straub, this time tomorrow, time travel ·
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A Well Drawn Fantasy World

A Winter's Promise by Christelle Dabos

May 30, 2022 by jomidi Leave a Comment

A Winter’s Promise by Christelle Dabos is the first in a quartet of of fantasy YA novels called The Mirror Visitor Series.  Thankfully, somebody decided this book was good enough to be translated from the French for us American readers. The story is set in a future world where people live on different Arks. Family members on each Ark share a special power. Ophelia lives on Anima and is gifted with the power to travel through mirrors and to “read” objects. This ability allows her […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: #fantasy, A Winter's Promise, Christelle Dabos, fantasy young adult, Fiction, the mirror visitor, Young Adult

jomidi's CBR14 Review No:5 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: #fantasy, A Winter's Promise, Christelle Dabos, fantasy young adult, Fiction, the mirror visitor, Young Adult ·
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Is life really just an AI simulation?

Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

April 21, 2022 by jomidi 2 Comments

I have been reading Emily St. John Mandel since her much praised Station Eleven, (I know there are many Station Eleven fans on Cannonball as it was a book group selection.)  I was eagerly looking forward to her latest novel, Sea of Tranquility, and it did not disappoint. Sea of Tranquility is told in a non-linear fashion, like Cloud Atlas and Cloud Cuckoo Land, but since this novel is about time travel, it makes perfect sense to be told that way.  I saw St. John Mandel being interviewed […]

Filed Under: Book Club, Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: Emily St. John Mandel, Emily St. John Mandel; time travel, Sea of Tranquility

jomidi's CBR14 Review No:4 · Genres: Book Club, Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: Emily St. John Mandel, Emily St. John Mandel; time travel, Sea of Tranquility ·
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