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Like reading the show

M*A*S*H: A Novel About Three Doctors by Richard Hooker

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Despite being born after the finale aired, I grew up on M*A*S*H. My parents bought each season on DVD as it was released and I’ve watched each episode at least three times. Maybe it doesn’t hold up quite so well watching it again as an adult (remember that episode where the guys in the Swamp convince a senior officer Hotlips is into him and he sexually assaults her … for laughs? Yeah.) But reading this book brought me right back to it all. The show (and movie! Oh man, first R-rated film I saw, thanks Dad!) is so rich, and so […]

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8/17/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:95 |

Read this book

The Girl Who Smiled Beads by Clemantine Wamariya

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I don’t always look too closely when I add books to my library hold list. Until I downloaded it and finally read the description, I assumed, based on the title, that The Girl Who Smiled Beads would be a novel. It’s a very novel-y title. I was very wrong. This book is the memoir of a young woman, only a year younger than me, who survived the 1994 Rwandan genocide and the years of displacement and brutality that followed. Clemantine Wamariya (originally Uwamariya) was six years old when the Rwandan president’s plane was shot down and in 100 days nearly 1 […]

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8/15/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:94 |

Well now I gotta see the movie

Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan

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With the film due for release tomorrow, this book has been ALL OVER Cannonball Read, so I’d like to thank a number of reviewers for bumping it up my TBR including, but not limited to: teresaelectro, kdm, Lollygagger, and llp. Pray for rain this weekend so I have an excuse to go to the theater. The writing itself felt rather rote (it’s a glorious wordplay if you say it aloud), but technical skill isn’t why these books have become so popular. It’s the sumptuous scenery and elaborate costuming and I think that’s precisely why it is going to make an […]

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8/14/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:93 |

Huh?s all the way down

Hollow by Owen Egerton

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So I realized after the fact that it’s pretty easy to find stories set in my current city, but when I think “home” I think “Texas” which is how I ended up Googling “new books set in Texas” and how I ended up reading Hollow, by Owen Egerton. It’s not a bad book, especially not the first two thirds or so. It’s just that by the end I was a whole lot of blinking-white-guy.gif. It goes more than a little off the rails. I appreciate that while this is a book set in Texas, it’s not a western or a “modern” […]

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8/14/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:92 |

Jane Eyre sees dead people

My Plain Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows

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As a woman raised and educated in America, I have read a good chunk of the Brontë/Austen collection of literature – I dunno, I just never really cared for it. It always carried the scent of English class, which is odd, because I liked my English classes. And I really liked the teacher I had for 10th grade English class, which focused on British literature where we read stuff like Wuthering Heights, et al. But these and Dickens always made me just say “eh” which is why I feel within my rights to classify My Plain Jane as “not  my wheelhouse”. It’s […]

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8/7/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:91 |

Hard to read while rolling your eyes

The Shack by William P. Young

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Like most Texans, I was raised very religious. Like most people who have religion shoved down their throats for 18 years, I am now an atheist. Atheism isn’t why I hated The Shack, though, it’s because it’s a fucking terrible book. I realized pretty quickly I didn’t like this book, given how shoddily the words are put together. I don’t even want to call it writing. I think I digested about 20% of the overall book, followed along completely, and still felt I gave it too much effort. I went back to Alabama Pink’s original review and was pretty gratified to […]

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8/6/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:90 |

Engaging story with a couple of leaps

The Book of M by Peng Shepherd

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The book summary said something about Station Eleven (which I love) so I definitely spent the first half thinking this was the author of Station Eleven and fair warning, it’s not. However, Peng Shepherd is a worth successor and I do recommend this book, just be prepared for a few leaps of logic along the way. The plot of The Book of M centers on a major what if – what if our shadows held all our memories? And what if those shadows could be lost? In a way it’s a new take on zombie fiction (the “shadowless” are shambling, lost, and often […]

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8/6/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:89 |

Utopian ideas in a dystopian space

The Queen of the Tearling (series) by Erika Johansen

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On its face, The Queen of the Tearling is your standard young adult fare – a young queen, a handsome and mysterious love interest, emerging magic, a kingdom that must be saved. I’m not dismissing YA novels when I say this, but the Tearling series is so much more. These books are suitable for high schoolers, but also eminently rereadable and enjoyable for those of us celebrating our ten+ year reunions. Think late Harry Potter range. But the good ones. Kelsea Raleigh has known her whole life that she is queen. Raised by foster parents in virtual isolation far from the castle, […]

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8/3/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:88 |


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