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My Third Cannonball! My goal this time around is to make the Half and get at least one bingo if we play bingo again.

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Elementary, My Dear Watson

A Study In Scarlett by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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A Study in Scarlet, is the first Sherlock Holmes mystery that Doyle wrote. Although I mostly enjoyed it, it’s pretty clear he was just starting this thing out. It’s a little rough in patches. Also, while I read this when I was younger, I had completely forgotten the weird Mormon/Native American Tracker (or is he a white dude adopted by Native Americans? It’s never quite clear.) tangent he goes off on at one point.  The tangent does make me kind of want to ticket of the “Western” Category box just kind of as a laugh. But I won’t. Because I […]

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9/19/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:30 |

I Think The Wind is Named “Eunice.” That’s a Good Name for Wind.

The Name of the Wind: (Kingkiller Chronicle, Book 1) by Patrick Rothfuss

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This book has been kicking around my recommended lists, and I’ve seen it reviewed a couple times here and there, then I saw it was part of the Pajiba Book Archive (though the link to the actual article seems to be broken? Or maybe the article is just too old at this point.) so I finally picked it up and started reading it. It’s a good, solid first novel in a fantasy world. Kvothe the Kingkiller, Kvothe the Arcane, Kvothe the Bloodless, Shadicar, Lightfinger, Six String, Kote the Innkeeper of Newarre (say it fast and you’ll get the pun). It […]

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9/6/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:28 |

Bullet with Butterfly Wings

A Curious Beginning by Deanna Raybourn

A Perilous Undertaking by Deanna Raybourn

A Trecherous Curse by Deanna Raybourn

A Dangerous Collaboration by Deanna Raybourn

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I’m putting all four cover images on here right from the get go because I would be lying if I tried to say that I didn’t start this series because of the cover art. I totally did start this series because of the cover art. It is fabulous and, even better, it is a perfect match for the stories contained inside. In A Curious Beginning we meet Veronica Speedwell. Veronica is a woman of science. She is a lepidopterist of skill and renown and she has no time for any of the Victorian era fiddle-faddle that tells her that a […]

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9/5/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:27 |

Family Ties

The Little Sister by Raymond Chandler

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Philip Marlow is a hard boiled private detective in Los Angeles who could use a case. He could use a lot of things, but he’d settle for a case. Until one morning when a plain, proper girl from Manhattan Kansas walks into his office asking him to find her brother. This is a great, pulpy mystery set in Hollywood in the 40s. Chandler is well into his groove with this one and Philip Marlow gets dragged through hell before he can untie all the knots these two siblings have snarled up for him. It isn’t long before looking for this […]

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9/3/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:23 |

Yes, the Title IS Quite a Mouthful

I thought It Was Just Me (But it Isn't): The Journey From "What Will People Think?" to " I Am Enough." by Brené Brown

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Technically this is a “Did Not Finish” because my library loan expired when I was about 30 pages from the end and I’m not going to bother re-borrowing it, mainly because I was so close to the end I’m certain I have gotten everything out of the book that I was going to get.  It’s fine. It’ll probably do more for some other folks, but for me it was fine. Self-help books like this usually aren’t my thing, but this is part of what I like about CBR Bingo, it pushes me out of my comfort zone and gets me […]

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8/28/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:22 |

Absolute Power Corrupts… Well, You Know…

The Power by Naomi Alderman

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Man, this book is intense. I actually finished it a  while ago, but I had to digest it a little before I could even start to think about writing up a review. I liked it? I mean, I did like it, but there are some parts that are a little tough to get through. I’m glad I did though. This is a story asking the question, what would happen if, all of a sudden, every girl on the planet around 16 years of age could shoot electricity out of her fingers? Like real, stop your heart, leave lightning trees electricity? […]

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8/28/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:21 |

We All Deserve to Be Happy

Happy Fat: Taking Up Space in a World That Wants to Shrink You by Sophie Hagen

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I found the incredibly funny Sophie Hagen through her podcasts, Made of Human and Secret Dinosaur Cult. She is a lovely Danish standup comedian that now lives in London and she is very, very funny. She is also fat, and has been for most of her life. As most of us who are on the heavier side probably know, this means she has had certain experiences in life that are less than ideal. She decided it was time to really look into the ideas that Western society’s fat phobia is based on and first, find out if the ideas are […]

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8/15/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:20 |

Spoiler: None of Them are Named Balki or Larry

Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty

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What would you do to achieve ultimate peace with yourself, your purpose in life, and maximize your health and well being? Tranquillum House will help you to this place of ultimate centering and self actualization in a pristine spa setting… Sounds lovely… Nine people arrive at the Tranquillum House in a remote part of Australia all seeking self improvement. Some want to lose weight, some are dealing with chronic health problems, and some aren’t even sure what’s wrong, just that something isn’t right.  It’s a rather motley crew that doesn’t seem to have a lot in common at first. Frances […]

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8/1/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:19 |


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