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Alternate title: How Millionaires Grieve

Option B by Sheryl Sandberg

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I really really wanted to love this book.  I picked it up after hearing Sandberg, Facebook’s COO, speak at a conference last summer.  I found her to be an engaging speaker and I immediately picked up her two books, hoping for more of the same.   In Option B, she talks primarily about unexpectedly losing her husband and how she has coped since his death.  The book’s subtitle, “Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy”, leads one to believe that the lessons she learned can be applied to all adverse situations.  In reality, she spoke mostly about grief.   While […]

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1/13/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:2 |

More like cutting my heart….

Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

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Oh hello there.  Well CBR9 was a bit of a bust for me, in that life got crazy and I read exactly one book in Nov/Dec.  ugh.  But let’s give it a go again! I’m starting off this year with a book club pick, Cutting For Stone…and yeah, it was great. After an unfortunate reading hiatus, and a crazy holiday, this was a great book to get lost in. Marion & Shiva are identical twins born to a nun in Ethiopia at the missionary hospital where she works.  When she tragically dies in childbirth and their assumed father abandons them, […]

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1/6/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:1 |

Are people really like this? Really? In real life?

The Lying Game by Ruth Ware

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 So, immediately after reading The Break, I needed a palette cleanser – something a bit more mindless and light.  This hit the spot for that.   A fairly generic mystery that was entertaining, but it wasn’t a complete home run for me. The Lying Game is about four friends who are living their separate lives in England, all while hiding a secret that they have been lying about since they were in high school together.  When something threatens to expose their secret, they come together to protect their story and to support each other. I have a similar issue with […]

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10/10/2017 's CBR9 Review No:36 |

Really, nothing compares to the bonds between women…

The Break by Katharine Vermette

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 The Break was a recent book club selection that was part of being intentional about not just reading yet another novel about white, middle-class North Americans in their 30’s.   2017 has been about intentionally divresifying the reading list, and man, aren’t we all just better for that? This book is set in Winnipeg, Manitoba and focuses on a Metis family (and their friends) dealing with several crises in each of their lives.  The chapters focus alternately on several members of the family from various generations, as their stories overlap and intersect.   There is a heartbreaking crime at the […]

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10/10/2017 's CBR9 Review No:35 |

Vive Gamache!!

Glass Houses by Louise Penny

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 I’ve been waiting for months for this to be released, and was so excited when the latest Inspector Gamache novel arrived on my doorstep!! I’ll try to not post too many spoilers, as I know there are other CBR’s working through the series. Gamache has been named Chief Superintendent of the Sureté and has taken on the daunting task of bringing down a drug cartel who is smuggling across the Canadian-American border. While this is happening, there is an unsettling murder that happens in Three Pines. Aaaaand that’s about all I can say. :/ As with all the books in […]

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9/22/2017 's CBR9 Review No:34 |

A mystery for music nerds :)

Bellwether Rhapsody by Kate Racculia

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 This book is the most recent addition to my collection that I have purchased based solely on CBR reviews.  I’ve learned that when a book keeps popping up here, it’s for good reason and y’all can be trusted to recommend some good stuff! Bellweather Rhapsody is set in an aging hotel in upstate New York during an annual high school music festival. Fifteen years ago there was a murder-suicide in room 712, and this year a girl has gone missing from that same room. It’s part mystery, part comedy, part coming-of age story.  The characters are colourful and complicated – […]

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9/21/2017 's CBR9 Review No:33 |

Well that was….disturbing…

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

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 Going into this book, I knew of the general controversy surrounding it, but wasn’t really familiar with the specific plot details.  But I picked it up in a used book store on a whim because I was overdue for a classic, and I have a thing for Russian authors and literature (although I was disappointed that this didn’t actually take place IN Russia). I’m sure most people know the general gist of this book – middle aged man falls in love with a young girl.  And ya, it’s unsettling.  Humbert is smitten with Lolita (a “nymphet”), and marries her mother […]

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9/21/2017 's CBR9 Review No:32 |

Why with the ridiculous female protagonist? WHY?

The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware

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 I always feel torn about books like this one.  There are so many flaws, and yet, I still sorta enjoyed it. The main character, Lo, is a travel journalist who is setting out on the maiden voyage of a luxury yacht, headed to view the Northern Lights in Scandinavia.  Days before leaving on the trip, her apartment is burgled while she is home, she has a huge fight with her boyfriend, and is generally on edge. The first night on the boat, she hears a commotion in the room next to hers (a room where she had earlier spoken with […]

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8/3/2017 's CBR9 Review No:31 |


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