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I like books, but I'm SUPER picky about them. To clarify- a three star rating means that I liked the book and found nothing objectionable in it. As 3 is the average between 1 and 5 this means the book is an average read, perfectly competent but not outstanding.

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Witches, Ghosts, and Policemen. oh my!

Haunting Charlie: Witches of Palmetto Point by Wendy Wang

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Most of the time I ignore the book advertisements that appear on my kindle ‘wake-up’ screen. For the most part, they’re not books that appeal to me in the slightest. However, something about this one caught my eye and so on a whim I purchased it. And I’m not mad about it. It’s not ground breaking fiction, by any means, but it was fun and engaging. Charlie has the ability to see ghosts and comes from a long line of witches. She’s not super happy with her abilities, as they’ve cost her quite a bit in her life, but she […]

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6/1/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:29 |

Then they don’t have to depend on the wind anymore.

When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead

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When You Reach Me won the Newbery Medal in 2010, and it kind of let me wondering if 2009 was just a bad year for published children’s novels. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a fine novel but I don’t think it holds up the way other Newbery winners have in the past. It is very strong on the nostalgia factor though, which makes me wonder if that is one of the reasons it won. Nostalgia for the Medal awarders obviously, not the children who read the book. The book is set in 1978, and it does capture the feel of […]

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5/22/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:28 |

If you judge success by the number of enemies you make, that was a highly successful evening.

The Whispering Skull, The Hollow Boy, The Creeping Shadow, The Empty Grave by Jonathan Stroud

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I finished the first book of this series back in January and quite liked it, but wasn’t quite ready to pick up the rest of the series. Fast forward a few months and I decide to mainline books 2 through 5. I liked the rest of the books, though I think they may have suffered a bit for being read back to back. There is a definite structure that the books follow and by the third book I started to get a bit bored with it. That being said, I still really enjoyed the series and I think it’s worth […]

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5/18/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:27 |

Live in fragments no longer.

Howards End by E.M. Forster

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mI recently ordered a month of Starz through Amazon (I wanted to watch the Lonesome Dove miniseries and Starz was the only place it was streaming) and determined to get my monies worth I decided to look at some of the other offerings, including the most recent adaptation of Howards End. I mean, I watched the really terrible show Conviction for Hayley Atwell, Howards End feels like the least I could do. At the time I started watching it the miniseries was only two episodes in, so I was left feeling unfulfilled when I finished those two episodes and decided […]

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5/11/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:23 |

Go nowhere on a horse that fades, for your dreams will betray you.

Night's Master by Tanith Lee

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Night’s Master by Tanith Lee is the May selection for the Sword and Laser book group. It’s been a few months since I’ve read the selected book, and since this one was relatively inexpensive I decided to read it. It’s a beautiful lush book, full of interesting characters, but I just didn’t love it. There isn’t much of a plot. The book is a collection of stories that revolve around the demon prince Azhrarn, but at the end some of the very loose plot threads are drawn together. The stories are told in sets of three, and within those sets […]

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5/11/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:22 |

Don’t pick up that bad penny, it could ruin your life

Coins of Chaos by Jennifer Brozek

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I picked up this collection of short stories because Seanan McGuire had a story in it. Specifically one from her Sparrow Hill Road series, which is connected to the InCryptid series. And since I will read just about everything she puts out into the universe, I picked it up. I wasn’t disappointed by her story, it was fabulous. The rest were, meh, ok. I found this to be a middling collection of short stories, but I’ll be honest it was the framing device that really bothered me. I think the idea of building a collection of stories around a series […]

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5/1/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:21 |

Anyone who says you can lose their love isn’t really family, no matter what blood says.

Tricks for Free by Seanan McGuire

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So with this review I think I’ve finally worked my way through the backlog of books. I mean, I’ve still got a couple that I need to review but they’re more recent. Yay!? Anyway Tricks for Free is the latest book in Seanan McGuire’s InCryptid series. It was fun, and I’m firmly committed to this series. I don’t know if this book is my favorite, but I enjoyed every second I spent reading it. This book follows Antimony Price to a Disney World stand-in. Antimony is trying hard to stay off the radar of The Covenant of St George and […]

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5/1/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:20 |

You could jump so much higher when you had somewhere safe to fall.

Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty

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Spoil yourself for this book before you read it. The number one complaint I read in the reviews for it were that people got frustrated trying to figure out what happened at the barbeque, and since that’s the least important thing about the book, they were underwhelmed when it finally did happen. So yes, spoil yourself, and then go in and read Truly Madly Guilty, Moriarty’s book about friendship, trauma, and how trauma shapes our lives. Non-spoilery summary as follows. Three couples have a barbeque one day, and a terrible accident happens that abruptly ends their evening. Erika and Oliver […]

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4/30/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:19 |


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