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MrsLangdonAlger

I am a devourer of almost all things pop culture, but especially books. I already make it a goal to read around 150 books yearly, so I figured why not do some good for the world while I do it? I mostly read fiction, with some graphic novels and nonfiction mixed in there for good measure.

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Channeling Former Riot Grrls

Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu

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I knew I was being pandered to the entire time I was reading this and I loved it anyway. This is yet another in the new trend of “girls fight back against sexism/rape culture/patriarchy” young adult books that I’m always happy to see popping up on my library “new in YA” feed. Books I have previously loved along this genre can be found in my reviews and include “Girls on the Verge”, “Sadie”, “I Stop Somewhere”, “The Nowhere Girls”, and “Sawkill Girls”. And no I am not just trying to make filler to make this review long enough! Anyway, I […]

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9/10/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:19 |

Not Quite a Worthy Sequel, But Still Good

The Testaments: The Sequel to The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

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First, let me say that I devoured this book in one day. No matter it’s faults, and it does have them, this is obviously an extremely propulsive book. I couldn’t put it down. Despite it being a giant hardcover, I was carrying it with me everywhere around the house, even when it was inconvenient and even uncomfortable to do so. It’s been a long time since I spent hours doing nothing but just reading, but I spent basically a day reading this and the new Becky Chambers (To Be Taught, If Fortunate). This is, as is obvious from the title […]

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9/10/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:18 |

A Worthy Followup to Bird Box

Inspection: A Novel by Josh Malerman

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Before I start, I realize my title here may be slightly misleading: don’t get excited, this book is not a sequel to Bird Box. It’s just another book by the same writer. But if you liked Bird Box, I think you’ll like this. This is going to be really hard to describe without giving too much away, because part of what’s great about this book is the slow revelation of what’s really going on. I’m going to be very careful not to include major spoilers in this review, but if you want to go in knowing absolutely nothing, stop reading […]

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8/21/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:17 |

The Handmaid’s Tale, but With Chili Peppers

The Core of the Sun by Johanna Sinisalo

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I’ve accepted that the theme of this review and my next one is just going to be “books that are extremely hard to describe without giving too much away, but that I really loved”. So. The Core of the Sun in set in a world in which women have been “evolved” with eugenics to belong to one of two classes. The eloi are feminine, submissive, and “wife material”. The morlocks are not feminine, think for themselves, and are doomed to physical labor or to die in obscurity. Yes, the book acknowledges the origins of those two terms early on and […]

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8/21/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:16 |

This Straight Up Gave Me a Panic Attack

Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls by T Kira Madden

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Trigger warning for this entire review for discussion of rape, rape culture. It took me forever to be able to write about this one. I almost left work early the day I finished it because I was having a panic attack and didn’t understand why. A couple of hours later I realized it had triggered my PTSD, even though nothing written about in the book had happened to me…at least not exactly as described. But hasn’t the insidious harassment, objectification, and nullification of meaningful consent happened to many if not most of us, just by virtue of being women? Haven’t […]

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8/5/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:15 |

The Start of King’s Best Books

The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger by Stephen King

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Apparently lots of people who like The Dark Tower series don’t like this book, and I really don’t understand that. I love the whole series enough to have a tattoo from it, Song of Susannah is clearly the weakest of the books, and The Gunslinger is some of King’s best writing, ever. The exact criticism I hear of it, that it’s a western and not a horror, is what I think allows it to be so great, because it allows King to break from his own conventions and focus on prose instead of story. Thing about it: King writes great […]

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7/18/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:14 |

Shirley Jackson-esque is One of the Highest Compliments I Can Give

You Must Not Miss by Katrina Leno

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I wasn’t sure what to expect going into You Must Not Miss. I knew I loved the title. I knew it was about a disturbed teenager retreating into fantasy, struggling with bullying, and being tempted by revenge. But I had no idea what the tone would be or what would happen next. Which is another high compliment, because I often find teenage protagonists in fiction far too predictable. What I got was a very Shirley Jackson-esque tone. I described this to my fiance as “if Shirley Jackson wrote a book inspired by Heavenly Creatures“, and I stand by that description, […]

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6/21/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:13 |

I Need To Stop Reading “Thrillers”

Saving Meghan: A Novel by D.J. Palmer

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I really need to stop reading “thriller” novels, especially ones written by people with initials in their names, because I always end up disappointed. Also, a note to mystery/thriller/suspense writers: an ending so stupid no one could have possibly guessed it is not the same as a good twist ending. Basically if a novel is described as “twisty”, I can conclude by now that I’ll find the “twist” insultingly stupid. This was no exception. That being said, the book is certainly propulsive. I think that’s the problem with this genre: you of course want to know what happens next and […]

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6/4/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:12 |


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