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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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Another One!

Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell

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After my friend got me a copy of Carry On for my birthday, I read it immediately, and naturally I loved it. It had all my favourite tropes: magic, vampires, enemies-to-friends-to-lovers, and-they-were-roommates, spoofing on the concept of a chosen-one, etc etc. I loved the characters and how it didn’t take itself too seriously, while still having a strong heart and emotions within it. This follow-up novel took hold of me with my love for these characters once again, but story-wise it certainly takes a dip: it’s need for something to happen just didn’t quite work for me. But more on […]

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11/9/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:36 |

First Love and Losing Faith

Blankets by Craig Thompson

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CBR11 Bingo Square: Banned Books I remember reading Blankets a number of years ago, and if I recall correctly, I liked certain aspects but didn’t love it. But having a copy on my shelves, I decided to re-visit it for my Banned Books square, after learning that both this novel and Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home were challenged and subsequently removed from the public library in Marshall, Missouri, after complaints that the novels were “pornographic” and might be read by children. This began a series of discussions about censorship, and the institution of new materials selection policies to the library board, […]

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10/23/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:35 |

A Cyclical Story that Works for the Most Part

Slade House by David Mitchell

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Why not read a book about an eerie house during this spooky month of October? Turns out, I didn’t realize that this short novel was an offshoot story from David Mitchell’s larger universe of The Bone Clocks. I can’t help but feel like maybe had I already read The Bone Clocks I would have enjoyed Slade House more, but as a story itself it isn’t bad, and definitely made me interested to pick up the original book that this is a companion to because of it. In any case, Slade House is a story that spans across five decades, centered […]

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10/15/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:34 |

Talking Without Speaking, Hearing Without Listening

Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

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CBR11 Bingo Square: Birthday Originally I wanted to read Celeste Ng’s Little Fires Everywhere for the birthday bingo square, but since our library had this book available first, I figured it was worth a read. And it certainly hit on a few soft spots in my heart along the way. Emotions? Yeah, I have those in spades, and this book absolutely brought some of them out. Everything I Never Told You centers on a mixed-race Chinese American family named the Lee’s in the 1970’s, whose middle daughter Lydia is found having drowned in lake near the Lee’s house. The novel […]

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9/30/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:33 |

A Delicious Mix of New Knowledge and Old Belief

Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson

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CBR11 Bingo Square: Travel Now perhaps the characters in this story don’t journey far beyond their city (though they do end up in the outskirts) and largely travel within it in a physical sense, but this novel also includes a journey to an unseen world of djinn, and therefore I picked it for the Travel square for CBR bingo. Alif the Unseen centers around a young hacker who goes by the pseudonym Alif, in an unnamed city along the Persian Gulf. This city is a security state, and he provides services to any dissidents who want to speak freely. After […]

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9/17/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:32 |

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 |


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