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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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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 |

The Ebb and Flow of a Young Queer Life in Historical London

Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters

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“Clad not exactly as a boy but, rather confusingly, as the boy I would have been, had I been more of a girl.” Another book snagged off of the Show Your Pride display at our local library this month: and can you go wrong with checking out a Sarah Waters novel? Even when they are not great, they are still worth a read for the twists and turns (the mileage of which may vary), but most importantly the striving to connect to the relationships around us, or even just to understand how they fit within our lives: there is always […]

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6/21/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:23 |

The During and After

The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai

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Happy Pride month, y’all! Our library has a wonderful little feature display of LGBT+ books, and go figure, the last thing I just returned ended up immediately on it, as well as this book here being something that could easily be featured on it. And a great book it is, in my opinion! If, perhaps, quite an emotional one, given the often difficult-but-important subject matter. And I wanted to read something like this right now as I parse through some complicated personal feelings regarding Pride this year; well, it’s a lot to get into and here is maybe not the […]

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6/11/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:22 |

Written in 1914, but Not Published Until Almost 60 Years Later

Maurice by E.M. Forster

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I’ll admit I have not read any of E.M. Forster’s novels before, though I have seen the film adaptation of A Room with a View. As is often the case for me, reading these older British novels makes me hit a bit of a wall in terms of the language that I don’t when watching adaptations: for some reason the manner of speech is hard for me to get into! But do I keep reading such books anyways? Obviously! And truly sometimes I forget my struggles. But that is not to say that this book is not good, just a […]

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5/28/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:21 |

A Story in Seven Parts

Midwinterblood by Marcus Sedgwick

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I can’t remember where I heard about this book, but it was on my to-read list on my account with the library, and since it was there I figured why not! And this was an interesting experience of a book for sure. I was referring to it as back-half-Cloud-Altas but that’s not quite right… Midwinterblood is essentially a series of seven little vignettes or short stories that are all connected in some way, and all take place on the same small island with its many mysteries and magic. We begin with a journalist, Eric, coming to the island in search […]

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5/12/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:20 |


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