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Leedock

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First we only want to be seen…After that, we want to be remembered.

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

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CBR11 BINGO: Cannonballer Says Since CBR6, Cannonballers have been (mostly) raving about this book. It was a CBR7 book club selection, faintingviolet read it more than once and the list of Cannonball reviews is over 34 and spanning CBR6 to CBR11. My eyes began to blur while attempting to calculate it. Suffice it to say, it is a looooonnnnngggggg list. Caitlin_D said that she was “late to the party” 3 1/2 years ago when she read and reviewed it. Maybe that makes my review the renaissance of Station Eleven? I don’t want to shirk my review responsibility, but I don’t […]

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7/9/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:19 |

But no other option was presented to her…

Mother Country by Irina Reyn

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This is a very moody and atmospheric little book about the complexities of female relationships, particularly mothers and daughters. It was displayed at the library (I am easily suggestible) and the author is a writing professor at a local university so I thought I would give it a go. Fearful of the political climate and worried about continuing to afford managing her daughter’s diabetes care, single mother Nadia and her 20 year old daughter, Larissa, plan to emigrate to the United States from the Ukraine. When Larissa’s visa is denied but Nadia’s is not, she makes the decision to go […]

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7/9/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:18 |

People are like animals. Some are happiest penned in, some need to roam free.

Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls

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CBR11 BINGO: Reading the TBR This was a book that I received for CBR 10’s holiday book exchange (thanks again, kfishgirl). I read and reviewed Walls’ “Glass Houses” last year and loved it. I waited a bit to start this one because I am quickly going to run out of Jeannette Walls titles to read and I’m trying to drag it out a little. So, this one has been on my TBR pile since December 2018 and thus fulfills the “Reading the TBR” bingo slot! While “Glass Castles” was a memoir written about Walls’ own life, “Half Broke Horses” is […]

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7/2/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:17 |

Monsters know when they are recognized..

Cari Mora by Thomas Harris

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The psychological profiling and tracking of serial killers in books, television and film is extremely interesting to me. The first book that I encountered along those lines was “Silence of the Lambs” and I devoured all of the prequels and sequels to that book as they came out. FBI agents’ freaky ability to get into a serial killer’s head and predict what, where, when and how is FASCINATING. Walking that very thin line between having a healthy mind and one that can process the mind of a monster is stuff that drama is made of. So, I was already a […]

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7/1/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:16 |

The Chosen ones never know that they are chosen.

Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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Another of Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine Book Club picks strikes again. This is definitely a page turner and a great summer read. Might I also recommend having some good 60’s rock ‘n roll playing in the background as well? Sit under the umbrella or with an umbrella in your cocktail and enjoy. The basic plot here is pretty straight forward. A band from Pittsburgh called The Six and a singer songwriter named Daisy Jones come together to record a duet and the rest is history. A meteoric rise into stardom, the predictable quibbling of band members that feel upstaged by […]

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6/28/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:15 |

An Eden of dangerous things.

Florida by Lauren Groff

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I don’t generally read a lot of short story collections. When I do, I prefer the ones that have some kind of thread that tie them together. This book fit that particular bill. While each of the stories in this collection have something to do with the state of Florida, the thread that I found the most intriguing was parenthood. What does it mean to parent? How much of one’s identity is tied up in the role of parent? Is there a limit to what can and should be personally sacrificed for your children OR parents? Groff sets her stories, […]

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6/23/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:14 |

…his attraction to her felt terrifying, like an oncoming train, and he threw her under it.

Normal People by Sally Rooney

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Wow. I’m not exactly sure where to start with this one. This was my book club’s pick for June and it is killing me that I will be out of town and unable to discuss it. Classmates at school, Marianne and Connell operate in completely different spheres. He hangs out with the popular kids, plays sports and is raised by a single mother who is a house cleaner. Marianne is mostly a loner, unpopular at school and lives with her wealthy widowed mother and brother. They see each other outside of school only because Connell’s mother cleans Marianne’s house. When […]

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6/14/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:13 |

You can’t stop the tide

Summer Wives by Beatriz Williams

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Beatriz Williams is one of my summer read go-tos. For some reason, I never got around to this book last summer when it came out. My mother passed her copy to me and it has been sitting on my non-library book TBR pile ever since. I finally cracked it open and it did not disappoint. Most of Williams’ books offer a little bit of mystery and a whole lot of star crossed loving. I’m more than fine with that. Her tendency to set things in two of my favorite decades: the roaring ’20’s and the 1950’s also checks some boxes […]

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6/14/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:12 |


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