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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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Did You Know Graham Norton Was Also a Novelist?

A Keeper by Graham Norton

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I had no idea that Graham Norton was a novelist until I saw him on Colbert talking about his new book. I like Graham Norton, so I added the book to my TBR pile (also known as my library Hold list). I had zero expectations going in, he didn’t give much away plot-wise on the chat show, so I had no idea what to expect. I enjoyed it. It isn’t the most amazing book ever, but it’s a quick read and it held my attention throughout. It also went in a  direction I really was not expecting, which was kind […]

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10/31/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:38 |

My Pen is Dry, The Door is Open, and Something is Waiting

Melmoth: A Novel by Sarah Perry

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This is a modern novel that strikes the perfect feeling of a Gothic novel in the style of Poe or Shelly. It is eerie and creepy with a ton of atmosphere and most of the fear and horror coming from not jump scares, but just that feeling that something is going to happen. Also, the monster is the humans. It’s always the humans… but not always int he way you think. Fair warning, I don’t give any major spoilers ahead, but this is a very atmospheric book, so if you want to go in clean, which might be a good […]

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10/30/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:37 |

Are You Afraid of the Dark?

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz

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Double Bingo! (2nd Row Down, Third Across- in Red… Blood Red… Mwahahaha) OK, I loved these books in school, loooovvved them. I must have read all three 5 or six times each. So, for the Back to School Square I decided to give the first one a re-read when I found it in my local used book store. This book gets four stars because it is a really good collection of American folk lore, shoot, it gets one whole star from me just for the Bibliography (plus I now have a whole new reading list. I love folklore). While the […]

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10/9/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:36 |

A Long, Strange Trip

Washington Black by Esi Edugyan

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BINGO!!!!! Woo hoo! I am really happy I made my first Bingo with this book, because I loved it. This book is so damn good I”m having trouble figuring out what to say other than, this book is so great! You should read it! George Washington Black is a slave on the Faith Plantation in Barbados. He lives in a shack with Big Kit and works in the sugar fields. When the plantation owner dies, his cousin Erasmus Wilde takes over and an already pretty horrific life becomes even worse. While Mr. Black was a tough owner and his overseers […]

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10/8/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:35 |

Party Down

Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

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This is a great short story collection. I found it randomly in my local used book store and since picking it up I’ve seen in on all kinds of “best of” lists, which is great, because this book is great. As with most short story collections I pick up I read it over a bit of time and not all in one go. I like to use short story collections as palate cleansers while reading other books, so it’ll take me a while to finish one, even if I really like it. This being the case, my memory on the […]

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10/4/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:34 |

Elementary, My Dear Douglas

Mycroft Holmes by Kareem Abul-Jabbar and Amy Waterhouse

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This is the story of Mycroft Holmes, older brother to the famous Sherlock Holmes. If you are a fan of Sherlock at all you know Mycroft as the meddling older brother, the suit, the government lackey who is constantly pestering and annoying Sherlock by trying to get him to do things. How do you think Mycroft sees the situation? This book actually starts before that. Sherlock is still a teenager (possibly early 20s) and living at school and Mycroft is the young Secretary to the Secretary of War starting out his career with his sights set on higher things. He […]

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9/27/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:33 |

Cry Wolf

American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West by Nate Blakeslee

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My cousin recommended this book to me and, oh man, am I glad she did. I swear, I don’t think I have ever cried so hard reading a non-fiction book before. This is an examination and history of the reintroduction of wolves into the Yellowstone Valley. It’s a very broad look at the entirety of the re-introduction project  started in 1995 following through until around 2014 or so, as well as getting really deep into the case studies of the various wolf packs, focusing predominantly on wolf 21 and his Druid Peak Pack and even more so on his granddaughter […]

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9/27/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:32 |

Red Tinted Glasses and Painted on Time

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

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After reading this book I read an interview with the author in the back. In this interview she mentioned that her goal was to make a “completely unfilmable book.” I have to say that, at least in my opinion, she very much succeeded. I cannot imagine how this could ever be adapted without major changes of many kinds. This is the story of Estha and Rahel, two egg twins. It is also the story of their Ammu. It is also the story of an English girl meeting her family in India. It is also a family saga. It is also […]

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9/26/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:31 |


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