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Deserves the hype

The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

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  CBR11 Bingo Listicle- I’ve seen this on several best seller lists in addition to Pres. Obama’s summer reading list.   This was a really brutal book. The author has written a fictional account of a reform school for boys, but based it on a real school that closed only a few years ago. It was discovered after the schools’ closure that there were a number of bodies buried on the school grounds that had not been accounted for. The men in charge of the school had buried several of the students there but told the boys’ families that they […]

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8/21/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:49 |

Classic and a remix, and I’m not sure about either

A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

A Study in Seduction by Eva Chase

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CBR11Bingo Classic and Remix squares. I had never read anything by Arthur Conan Doyle before this. I have to say, I was a little disappointed. The first half of the book was about what I expected- introductions of characters, segue in to the mystery to be solved, Holmes solves a case that no one else can. I think most of the English-speaking world has some familiarity with Sherlock Holmes, whether through book, movie, television show or references in other pop culture. I wasn’t expecting the entire second half of the book to be a detour to the Murderous Mormon territory. […]

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8/21/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:48 |

Two authors is one too many

What If It's Us by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera

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CBR11 Bingo Rainbow Flag square. This is a collaborative book written by two authors who have had individual success in the Young Adult market. Arthur and Ben meet cute at a post office when Arthur follows a cute guy who is trying to mail a package to his ex-boyfriend. They don’t exchange information before they are separated by a flash mob and then spend a third of the story thinking about how to find the other, and if it is even worth the attempt. Arthur is a junior in high school in an Atlanta suburb. He is in New York […]

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8/21/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:46 |

I didn’t see what the Perks were

The Perks Of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

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Bingo Square: Banned Books (https://www.marshall.edu/library/bannedbooks/books/perks.asp)- this book was banned in 2017 in the school district I attended as a kid, and that my mom taught in until recently. It was deemed offensive due to its ‘explicit sexual references’ which were called “disgusting”. It was specifically banned in a middle school after it was assigned by a substitute teacher for a 7-th grade advanced language arts class. I have to say that while I think banning books is a ridiculous thing, I don’t think this book is an appropriate assignment for 7th-graders. The novel is told through letters written by Charlie […]

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7/31/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:45 |

Ms. Marvel at war

Ms. Marvel Vol. 6: Civil War II by G Willow Wilson

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Bingo Square : Illustrated   I haven’t been in to comic books since for about 30 years, back when I would beg my mom to buy me Archie at the checkout of the grocery store and finish it before we got home. Ms. Marvel really has changed that. Kamala Khan is an American teenager living in Jersey City, New Jersey and dealing with regular teenage stuff- school, her parents’ expectations, and the occasional boy trouble. The big difference is that Kamala’s boy trouble is usually because the ‘boy’ is a villain and she has to defeat him to be home […]

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7/31/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:44 |

Youths!

Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard: The Sword of Summer by Rick Riordan

Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard: The Hammer of Thor by Rick Riordan

Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard: The Ship of the Dead by Rick Riordan

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This is for the Youth Bingo Square. Rick Riordan is a pretty big deal in my house. My younger child (aged 11) has been reading through all of his books in a continuous, never-ending, are-you-really-doing-this-again loop for the last three years. Of the series written by Riordan, the Magnus Chase books are probably my second favorite. The Sword of Summer introduces Magnus, a homeless teenager living in Boston. He has been homeless for two years, since the death of his mother to glowing blue wolves. Magnus has reason to distrust his family, and so he lives on the streets, watched […]

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7/31/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:43 |

I am the mother of a monkey and a daughter

Things You Save In a Fire by Katherine Center

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 Things You Save In a Fire is a pretty quick read that is probably a good beach or vacation book. My 13-year-old daughter agreed to read this book with me for the ‘Two Heads’ bingo square. The title of the post is a sentence she repeatedly tried to insert in to my own answers. Mom: I thought this was a good book. It was a story about Cassie, a firefighter in Texas who moves to Massachusetts when her life gets turned up-side down. It follows her as she re-establishes a relationship with her estranged mother and as she tries to […]

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7/31/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:40 |

Well done

Bad Blood by John Carreyrou

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CBR11 Bingo Science square What exactly was it that made Elizabeth Holmes so believable to so many people? Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup gives the history of how Elizabeth Holmes started her company Theranos and how the company fell apart around her. John Carreyrou very thoroughly details every step- from Holmes’ college days to her dropping out, working with two other people on her initial idea of a wearable treatment device and how her original plans turned in to the company Theranos. The author painstakingly describes the development of the Edison machines that purported to […]

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7/13/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:39 |


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