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…when we were infinite.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

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CBR11 BINGO: Banned Books This is a frequent flyer on the Office for Intellectual Freedom Top 10 Most Challenged Books list (2004, 2006-2009, 2013, 2014). The tragedy is that the books that often speak frankly and clearly about real issues of growing up and learning how to navigate in the world are frequently found so threatening. It’s as if the books are instructional manuals for bad behavior rather than stories that can offer hope, validation and solace. “Charlie” begins writing a series of letters to an unknown person over the course of one year. Changing his name and the names […]

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9/22/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:35 |

…we would never outgrow the cautionary tales.

Whisper Network by Chandler Baker

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CBR11 BINGO: Reader’s Choice (Sub for Two Heads are Better Than One Square) I now have a Pavlovian response to any Reese Witherspoon book club pick. I immediately request it from the library. I think that I just need to accept this about myself. Set in the law offices of a successful Dallas sporting good company, the story is part mystery and part social commentary. It’s an up close look at the unfolding of the #MeToo movement in a corporate office where the man poised to take over as CEO has a reputation for sexual harassing female co-workers. The story […]

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9/22/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:34 |

First they convinced them that the afterlife is even better than Disneyland

Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

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CBR11 BINGO: Illustrated (BINGO! Reading the TBR corner to Cannonballer Says corner) First, I want to say that the un-athletic yet competitive side of me is totally appreciating this BINGO situation. I enjoyed it last year, but I was less prepared for it. Now, the actual searching for books that fit into the squares that are more difficult for me is actually broadening my reading base in unexpected ways. Bravo, CBR idea makers! I bought a copy of this illustrated novel a few years ago for my son. His middle school class was studying Iran and I thought that he would enjoy it. It has […]

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9/12/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:33 |

It’s not the bad people who are brave I fear, it’s the good people who are afraid

American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin by Terrance Hayes

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CBR11BINGO: Not  My Wheelhouse (BINGO! I Love This! corner to Award Winner corner) I read across a lot of genres, but I haven’t read poetry since I was in college a million years ago. Taking “Not My Wheelhouse” to mean something that I’m curious about but don’t tend to pick up, I landed on a poetry. I also landed on a poet who is not my wheelhouse. BlackRaven reviewed this a while back and said it best, I think: “I am sorry to say, I am probably not the target audience. And yet, everyone is the audience. ” Well said, […]

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9/11/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:32 |

We live over and over in the happening only to be left with what’s already done.

Call Your Daughter Home by Deb Spera

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CBR11 BINGO: History Schmistory (BINGO! Reading the TBR corner to Summer Read corner) Set in the American south in the 1920’s, this novel fits nicely into the “History Schmistory” square. Just a generation into rebuilding after the civil war and shortly after a boll weevil infestation ruins the cotton industry, the inhabitants of a small South Carolina town and it’s outskirts are scrambling to make ends meet. The novel is told through the voices of three very different women: a first generation free black woman, the matriarch of the town’s wealthiest family, and a battered and impoverished white mother. The story, however, […]

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9/10/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:31 |

…every single beautiful lie he had been told during the course of his childhood…

Werewolves in their Youth by Michael Chabon

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CBR11 BINGO: The Collection (BINGO! Remix corner to Summer Read corner) I don’t generally read very many short story collections. I like to dig into a story and often short fiction robs me of that a little bit. I’m invested and then it’s over. I think that’s why I tend to gravitate towards short story collections that are somehow linked by character or place. The connection is more satisfying for me. While Chabon’s collection here is not linked in that way, the stories are linked, in many ways, by circumstance. Several of the characters struggle with demons from their childhood: parental expectations, […]

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9/4/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:30 |

They hammer, they slash. They do not study.

Ragnarok: The End of the Gods by A.S. Byatt

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CBR11 BINGO: Remix (Retelling of Norse Myths) A.S. Byatt is an author that I find difficult and I can only tackle one of her novels every so often when I feel I am up to the task. It’s always worth the effort, but it takes a lot of concentration to deal with the richness of her language and the scope of her thoughts. It’s a little like reading philosophy, mythology, psychology, poetry and historical fiction all at once. This little book of only 171 pages packs it all in. While Ragnarok is a re-telling of Norse mythology, it’s not done in a […]

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9/4/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:29 |

The spotted custard was the kind of place where exceptions were made, because everyone was strange and exceptional.

Reticence by Gail Carriger

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CBR BINGO: Love This I have been a huge Gail Carriger fan now for a decade. Yep. That’s when she started rolling out her “Parasol Protectorate” series. I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE those books and pretty much adore the “Custard Protocol” series (of which this book is the last of). Sassy, witty, stylish romps served with the perfect cup of tea. This is the 13th book (plus a handful of novellas and short stories) in Carriger’s alternate Victorian London full of vampires, meta and pretnaturals, were-younameits, loaded parasols, ladybug dirigibles and puffs and puffs of steam. If you haven’t read these […]

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8/21/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:28 |


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