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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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What Is Normal?

Eggshells by Caitriona Lally

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I’m not really sure where to start with this book. I’m not really even totally sure how I feel about this book at all. This book was just awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, which is given out every year by Trinity College Dublin, which is where Caitriona Lally happens to work… as a janitor. I read an article about her and was intrigued. She got the idea for the book when she was unemployed after being laid off and spent her days roaming Dublin trying to figure out what to do with herself. That is a great idea […]

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6/13/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:16 |

Rich People Problems

You Think It, I'll Say It by Curtis Sittenfeld

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  I needed a bit of a palate cleanser, and short story collections almost always fit that bill nicely. I had already read Prep by the same author years ago. I remember liking it, but not really identifying with the characters very well, they were a little too outside my personal experience. I had kind of the same feeling with some of the stories in this collection. A lot of them are really great, and overall I did like this collection, but Sittenfeld does tend to write about very privileged, very well off white people and their very specific problems, […]

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6/13/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:15 |

She is Not Bridget, She’s Queenie

Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams

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A lot of the other mentions I have seen for this book compares it to Bridget Jones’s Diary. I can see why the comparison is made, and for about the first quarter I can almost see it, but this book really is something else entirely and the comparison is overall pretty shallow and off base. Queenie is a young black woman in London. She is working for a magazine and trying to find her voice as a writer and work her way off the “Events” page. Her life is pretty much falling apart and she’s having a hard time with […]

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6/4/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:14 |

When the Deck is Stacked Against You, Switch to Pachinko

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

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I loved this book so much. I think it’s one of my favorites int he last couple years. It’s kind of a quiet story it’s about normal people living relatively normal lives, or at least normal for their situation, so it’s kind of a quite, slow meander of a book. There is no real climax or resolution to speak of, it’s a bit more circular in it’s plotting. This is the story of four generations in a Korean family that lived during the Japanese occupation of Korea through WWII and then after. Sunja was born in a village outside of […]

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6/4/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:13 |

Get Out of My Head, Guy!

My Life as a Goddess, a memoir through (un)popular culture by Guy Branum

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I got this as an audiobook, as I almost always do when reading a celebrity memoir, especially if it’s a comic. If you are going to read this book I recommend the audiobook. So I spent a good 90% of this book thinking, “I know, right??!!” It is almost creepy how much Guy Branum and I think alike. He grew up in a town about an hour away from where I grew up and he’s only about 4 or so years older, which I think contributes to this a lot. We both love trivia and pop culture and so I […]

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4/30/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:12 |

A Quick Little Walk on the Dark Side

The Best American Mystery Stories 2018 by Louise Penny (editor)

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I’m going to say that while I did like this collection, I don’t necessarily know that I personally would have called all the included stories “mystery” stories. A lot of them fell into more of a ‘suspense’ or general ‘crime’ genres rather than a true mystery story. That didn’t bother me most of the time, but it was enough of a thing that I wanted to get it out there for anyone who may want to check this one out. As with most short story collections, there are some great stories and some that didn’t work as well for me. […]

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4/19/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:11 |

The End is Nigh… But So Is My Quarterly Deadline

Severance by Ling Ma

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I thought I had already reviewed this guy but apparently not. Unfortunately it’s been a bit since I read it so this review may not be as specific as I would normally like. Oh well, I liked it and good books stick with you pretty well, so this should still be pretty good. How long do you think it would take for the average person to notice Armageddon had come? For Candace, way longer than most folks would like to think. Candace is a millennial office drone in New York. She works in book manufacturing in the Bible department; not […]

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4/19/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:10 |

Not My Cup of Tea, Unfortunately

Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson

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 I really did not like this book very much. At the same time, it is clear I am really not the intended audience for this book. Man, I really hate writing reviews like this, because while I didn’t like it, I can see that someone else probably would, especially someone younger, and this being a YA book, that makes total sense. So, I’m prefacing this with the disclaimer that I am a Cranky Old and so if you are not a Cranky Old, take this review with a grain of salt. There is good stuff in this book, it just […]

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3/15/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:9 |


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