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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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Enraging, completely and totally enraging book that you should read RIGHT NOW

Killers of the Flower Moon The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann

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Non fiction is one of those genres that I read occasionally, but I don’t often seek out. For this reason this book fits the “Not in my Wheelhouse” square of my bingo card. So, here’s what I knew about Oklahoma before starting this book: 1- I drove through it once on a cross-country trip with my dad when we moved from New Mexico to Maryland. It was very flat and I don’t remember much more. 2- It is where the wind comes sweeping down the plains, and the waving wheat can sure smell sweet when the wind comes right behind […]

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8/21/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:33 |

Aster didn’t mean it

An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon

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This book fits into my Underrepresented bingo slot. Rivers Solomon is a black woman writing in sci-fi. I wanted so much to like this book, I really did, but I bounced hard off of it and struggled to finish. I can appreciate, intellectually, what Solomon was going for but I did not enjoy my time with this book at all. The book is set on an inter generational space ship that is starting to break down. And though humans have left Earth behind, they haven’t left any of the prejudices or hatreds on the ground. Aster, the main character, belongs […]

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8/17/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:32 |

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

The Hypnotist's Love Story by Liane Moriarty

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This book fills the Brain Candy square on my bingo card. That’s not to say it isn’t a great read, cause it really is, but I read Moriarty’s books when I want something good but also light and not depressing. Like a really good pastry for the brain. I think this one is one of Moriarty’s better books, as she manages to tread the line between making a character sympathetic even though their actions are reprehensible. The titular hypnotist is Ellen O’Farrell, who recently started dating a man that she really likes. A man who sprang a weird fact on […]

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8/17/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:31 |

People don’t want to listen to their thoughts, so they fill the world with noise.

Hello, Universe by Erin Entrada Kelly

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In my ongoing quest to read all the Newbery Award Winners, I decided to read the most recent addition to the list. Hello, Universe won the Newbery Award in 2018, and boy am I under the impression that 2017 was a bad year for children’s books. It’s not a bad book, per se, it’s just not great in the way I’ve come to expect Newbery winners to be. It was a very fast read, even for a children’s novel, and it contained about a short story’s worth of plot. This also fills in my Award Winner Bingo slot. So Virgil […]

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8/3/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:30 |

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 |


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