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Disney World lover. Chewbacca hugger. Reader of books. Writer of words. (Learn more about this Cannonballer: Leedock's Quick Questions interview.)

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It’s rather a lot to tell. But I suppose I should start with the parrot.

A Restless Truth by Freya Marske

February 7, 2023 by Leedock Leave a Comment

CBR15PASSPORT (Stamp #4: Books from different countries. Do international waters count? If not, written by an Australian.) This is the second book of the Last Binding Series. If you haven’t read it yet, by all means read the first in the series that I reviewed here: A Marvellous Light. It’s a surprisingly fresh take on the well-worn “magic is real” carpet set in the early 1900s. Spoilers abound if you haven’t read the first book. In the aftermath of Robyn and Edwin’s discovery that snobby magical aristocrats are conspiring […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: #fantasy, CBR15, CBR15Passport, Fiction, Freya Marske, Last Binding Series

Leedock's CBR15 Review No:4 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: #fantasy, CBR15, CBR15Passport, Fiction, Freya Marske, Last Binding Series ·
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We are women without a voice…We are women out of time and place, without even the language of the country we reside in.

Women Talking by Miriam Toew

February 7, 2023 by Leedock 1 Comment

CBR15PASSPORT (Stamp #3: Books from different countries. Set in Bolivia about a Mennonite community written by a Canadian.) This book is a lot. Whatever triggers you have will be triggered. Toew’s novel is based on a real-life series of sexual assaults that occurred at a Mennonite colony in Bolivia in 2005. The victims ranged in age from 3 to 65 and the assailants were their friends and family members. Drugged with animal tranquilizers, the women would wake bloodied and bruised with no recollection of what had taken […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: CBR15, CBR15Passport, Fiction, Miriam Toew

Leedock's CBR15 Review No:3 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: CBR15, CBR15Passport, Fiction, Miriam Toew ·
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Because when women understand chemistry, they begin to understand how things work.

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

February 7, 2023 by Leedock 2 Comments

CBR15PASSPORT (Stamp #2: Books recommended by friends. Friends, grocery store clerks, Cannonballers, everyone who has ever read it….) Everyone on the planet has probably read this book already. Many of you reviewed it. It took me forever to actually get to it myself. And I have reasons. So, this will mostly be a review (Can I call it a review? I’m going to call it a review.) about why it took me so long to read a book that hit pretty much all of my buttons. A […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Bonnie Garmus, CBR15, CBR15Passport, Fiction

Leedock's CBR15 Review No:2 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Bonnie Garmus, CBR15, CBR15Passport, Fiction ·
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He had taken in the country, and in his eyes and his mind it had been changed, marked by his own individuality, and made part of him.

Out of Africa by Isak Denison

February 7, 2023 by Leedock Leave a Comment

CBR15PASSPORT (Stamp #1: Books from different countries. In between a lot of privileged nonsense, it is a love letter to Africa.)After reading Paula McClain’s Circling The Sun last year, I was not finished with the characters. So, I picked up this book to learn a little more about the real-life folks that inspired that historical fiction. This is a classic that I had never read, made into a famous movie, that I have never seen. Well trod territory here, but I’ll give it a go. A Danish […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: #memoir, CBR15, CBR15Passport, Isak Denison, non fiction

Leedock's CBR15 Review No:1 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: #memoir, CBR15, CBR15Passport, Isak Denison, non fiction ·
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For I had seen with startling clarity that the two are connected, the fall of New Bethany and the rise of Disney’s Magic Kingdom.

The Magic Kingdom by Russell Banks

December 21, 2022 by Leedock Leave a Comment

Closing out CBR14 with a whimper, not a bang, folks. This is one of those books that I’m sure will get rave reviews. There are probably countless deep dives out there about how this book is an indictment of capitalism. And it is. It is about a lot of relevant things, but it’s also very boring. The story of a boy who grew into adulthood within various utopian societies throughout the United States should be interesting at least. But it isn’t. I’m going to blame […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbr14, historical fiction, Russell Banks

Leedock's CBR14 Review No:37 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr14, historical fiction, Russell Banks ·
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For you the entire world will still be too little.

Miss Moriarty, I Presume? by Sherry Thomas

December 21, 2022 by Leedock Leave a Comment

This is book 6 in the Lady Sherlock Series. Forge ahead if you are already reading. Stop and grab the first 5 if you have not. Fresh from solving cases and dodging death, Charlotte, Lord Ingram, and Mrs. Watson are “hired” by their nemesis, Moriarty, to check on the welfare of his daughter. Well, more strong-armed than hired, to be honest. Moriarity claims his daughter is under the thrall of a religious cult and is being kept at its compound in a remote seaside town. […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: cbr14, Fiction, Lady Sherlock Series, mystery, Sherry Thomas

Leedock's CBR14 Review No:36 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: cbr14, Fiction, Lady Sherlock Series, mystery, Sherry Thomas ·
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