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Lisa Bee

Heading into my 7th year participating in Cannonball Read with CBR11! Catch me doing most of my reading while waiting for customers to come in to work.

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A Good Introduction to the World of Indigenous Comics and its Creators

Moonshot: The Indigenous Comics Collection by Hope Nicholson

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CBR11 Bingo Square: Reader’s Choice (replacing: Classics) Let me begin by saying that I did indeed want to read a classic for my classics square: I really wish I could get into the old language more, but it’s such a struggle for me! And truth be told I did start reading Bram Stoker’s Dracula, but I just kept drifting and realized about a tenth of the way in that I wasn’t up to the task (so instead I connived my friends into watching the movie as a part of our weekly movie-nights Keanu-athon, and boooooy howdy does that movie make […]

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9/11/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:31 |

The Narrators Were More Interesting, but Only Some of Them

The Life and Death of Sophie Stark by Anna North

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CBR11 Bingo Square: Listicle As found on the Book Riot list of “100 Must-Read Bisexual Books” https://bookriot.com/2017/09/21/100-must-read-bisexual-books/ I saw a lot of good reviews for this novel, and was excited to read it, given how it appeared to center on meaningful relationships (my favourite!), as well as the career of a filmmaker (something of great interest to me!). And yet, this is one of those cases where despite seeming like it has a lot of people who love it, I myself just don’t get it, even though I really want to. The Life and Death of Sophie Stark follows the […]

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8/26/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:30 |

An Unflinching Historical YA Fiction of 1969 Malaysia

The Weight of Our Sky by Hanna Alkaf

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CBR11 Bingo Square: Youths! This book was on the featured wall of the Young Adult section of our library, and the cover art immediately drew me in. Although written as a YA novel with a teenage protagonist, this novel specifically includes an author’s note at the beginning warning for content including racism, graphic violence, death, OCD and anxiety triggers. Suffice to say, this is a heavy book based on the real events of the 1969 race riots in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, albeit about a fictional character. The of The Weight of Our Sky follows a teenage girl named Melati, who […]

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8/20/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:29 |

Some Intriguing Potential, But I Felt So Little

By Nightfall by Michael Cunningham

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CBR11 Bingo Square: Rainbow Flag Truth be told, for the Rainbow Flag square I was hoping to read Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham (is the movie adaptation with Colin Farrell worth watching? I didn’t know this existed and well, Mr. Farrell is a big draw for me, I must admit), but sadly our local library didn’t have that novel. However, they DID have By Nightfall, and no matter the subject, Michael Cunningham is still LGBT+, and I DO have a strange thing for stories about a long-established relationship dynamic being shifted by the introduction of […]

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7/28/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:28 |

Engaging First Book of a Trilogy

Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson

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CBR11 Bingo: Own Voices Written by Eden Robinson, an Aboriginal Canadian Author of the Haisla and Heiltsuk First Nations, I though Son of a Trickster would definitely fit the Own Voices Bingo square as it is a coming-of-age novel centered on an Aboriginal teenager in Kitimat, British Columbia, which leans solidly into some of the Haisla culture and beliefs, particularly those surrounding the trickster figure, Wee’jit. Our focus in this novel is a teenager Jared as he navigates the usual teenage social scene and dramas, but with a whole load of other baggage as well: this comes in the form […]

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7/22/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:27 |

Intriguing YA Read Concept that Didn’t Quite Stick the Landing

Mercury by Hope Larson

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CBR11 Bingo: Illustrated Picked up on a whim, this graphic novel features all black-and-white illustrations, which are simple but expressive, but the story itself was a bit fleeting to me. Split between the past and present, Mercury follows the journey of a teenage girl in Nova Scotia named Tara. She is currently living with her aunt, uncle, and cousin in her home town, after her mother is working in another province. After Tara and her mother’s house burned down a few years ago, she has been homeschooled, and now is the time that she finally returns and is wondering how […]

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7/12/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:26 |

What is it to Live? What is it to Love? What is Freedom, in the End?

The Bird King by G. Willow Wilson

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CBR11 Bingo: Far and Away Although this novel could be used for a number of different bingo squares, I chose it for Far and Away, as it is far away from me in not just physical location, but also in time-period and culture. The Bird King takes place in 1491 Granada, at the end of reign of the last Sultan on the Iberian peninsula, as the Spanish Inquisition closes in on the once large, but now dwindling empire. The main focus is on the journeys of Fatima, a young concubine of the Sultan’s, and her best friend Hassan, the palace […]

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7/5/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:25 |

Drifting Without Latching Onto Anything

Running by Cara Hoffman

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One last book from the Show Your Pride display at the library this month! (Not that I can’t or won’t read many other LGBT books in the time to come). Picked this one up on a whim, and turns out, my instincts were off base on this one. Reading this book felt like a chore, and while there were some nuggets of possibility and good ideas flitting by, it never stuck the landing on, well, anything really. Running follows a 17-year old girl named Bridey, fleeing her past life in America and now finding herself in Athens. She forms a […]

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6/28/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:24 |


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