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kfishgirl

I love to read. I'm usually reading at least 3 books at a time. They're not all good... some are really bad. I have trouble not finishing books though. Now CBR has doubled down on that trouble, because I want to get credit for reading the bad ones too!

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DI Gravel is interesting, but I’m not sure he’s great at his job?

Portraits of The Dead (DI Gravel Book 1) by John Nicholl

A Cold Cold Heart (DI Gravel Book 3) by John Nicholl

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Shockingly I started the DI Gravel series at book number two!  It was actually really good (as far as I can remember).  I definitely remember liking DI Gravel as a character.  Like I said in the title though, I’m not sure he’s great as an investigator.  I don’t think he actually solved the crimes in the second book, and I don’t think he actually solved the crimes in this first book either. The bad dude kidnaps a college student named Emma and keeps her a prisoner in his basement and tortures her.  There were apparently five ladies before her, and […]

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10/30/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:48 |

Reading to dogs is fun!

Trick or Treat, Little Critter by Mercer Mayer

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I took my niece to something my library calls Dog Tales on Monday.  Once a month they bring therapy dogs into the library for an hour or so, and have kids who are just starting to read sit on the floor with the dogs and read to them.  It’s pretty awesome, because obviously the dogs don’t judge how well the kids are reading.  The kids gain confidence in their reading and get to pet some really cute dogs at the same time. So I got to hear Nora read this adorable book (that she got as a gift from her […]

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10/30/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:46 |

Something that happened in the ’80’s can be history, right?

Robert Pickton: The Pig Farmer Serial Killer (Crimes Canada: True Crimes That Shocked The Nation Book 1) by Chris Swinney

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So my friend got me started listening to a true crime podcast based on the most recent story she heard.  It was about a pig farmer named Robert Pickton.  He was apparently a semi-notorious Canadian serial killer.  I didn’t even know that Canada had serial killers! She told me about a book that they kept mentioning, but it was like $15 and I didn’t feel like spending any money that day, so I borrowed the Kindle Unlimited version of the story from Amazon.  Well, it was fine, but I got what I paid for.  I’m excited to get to the […]

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10/30/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:45 |

This small revolution was suuper small.

A Small Revolution by Jimin Han

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So I got this book back in April 2017, and I just got around to reading it last month.  I guess there was maybe a reason for that!  It seemed like it was going to be good, but I really didn’t like it that much.  Conveniently though, it fulfills my #Own Voices Bingo square!  Jimin Han is a Korean American author, and her main characters are all Korean American. The main character is a Korean American college student in Pennsylvania who met the love of her life on a school trip to Korea.  He gets killed in a revolutionary act […]

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10/29/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:44 |

Two Snow Whites, and two bingo squares!

Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs: A Tale from the Brothers Grimm by by Randall Jarrell (Translator), Nancy Ekholm Burkert (Illustrator)

Snow White in New York by Fiona French

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So my sister is getting her Master’s degree in Art Education.  She’s currently in a class about picture books (or something along those lines).  Her homework for this week was to compare three different versions of a picture book, so since I thought at least two of the three books would work for me for bingo squares, I joined her in reading the books for her homework.  We got my nine year old niece involved too.  She actually read the books aloud to us, which was awesome.  The two bingo squares I’m crossing off are Remix and Classics.  Here we […]

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9/28/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:43 |

Would you have stopped? Would it have made a difference?

The Breakdown by B. A. Paris

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Imagine  you’re driving down a super dark, windy road, full of twists and turns.  There are dips and bumps, and it’s raining.  The trees feel like they’re closing in on you, but you see headlights up ahead!  Almost too late, you realize the car is stopped, and you have to swerve around them.  Is the person stranded?  Do you stop and help them?  You don’t want to get out in the rain…   This is the premise of The Breakdown.  The main character – Cass – is on her way home from happy hour with her coworkers and she takes […]

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9/28/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:41 |

What if you weren’t sure if your old friend murdered his entire family?

The Dry by Jane Harper

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My sister gave me this book to read after she read the entire thing on our Christmas vacation at the end of last year in like two days.  She loved it, and she wanted me to love it too.  Unfortunately my to be read pile was waaaay too high, and it takes me a while to read “actual” books, so it took me a while to get to this book.  Fortunately though, I read it in two days!  It was really good.  I liked the characters a lot, and I really liked the story. This is the first in the […]

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9/28/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:40 |

We don’t know what happens Behind Closed Doors…

Behind Closed Doors by B. A. Paris

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So I cheated a little bit with this one.  A coworker read this book and lent it to me because she loved it and wanted to talk about it.  I went to my trusty old CBR page to see if anyone had reviewed it.  I saw that badkittyuno read it and loved it, so I knew it was a safe bet: behind-closed-doors-badkittyuno/ So this book will be fulfilling my cbr11bingo Cannonballer Says square! When my friend Brianne gave me the book she said she read it in two days.  Well, I topped that and read it in like 4.5 hours.  […]

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9/24/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:39 |


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