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I buy books with alarming frequency and will be on maternity leave March through June. As I get itchy if I stay home too long with nothing to do, I'm hoping to fix both problems in one go.

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Too many humans

All Systems Red by Martha Wells

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My “award winner” bingo square belongs to Martha Wells’ murderbot opener “All Systems Red,” purchased from another CBR review, but I’m a bad person and can’t remember who to credit.  Let’s just give the glory to Emmalita. Anyway, I was charmed by the plot description of an AI gone unexpectedly rogue who uses their newfound sentience to… laze about, hide their feelings, and binge watch a soap opera.  My conciousness is neither unique nor hard-won, and I pretty much spend my life doing the same, honestly.  How could I not buy this book with that synopsis? The execution was somewhat […]

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11/16/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:62 |

Fahrenheit 666, or how I learned to start worrying and love the resistance

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling

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 (Double bingo!) It feels like I’m cheating to count this as my banned book “Fahrenheit 451” square, because in the nearly 20 years since I read this the first time it’s become omnipresent. Not that it wasn’t a hit even when I picked it up the first time around in the middle school library where my mom worked, killing time between the end of my school day and her closing hours with an endless supply of books, but the popularity explosion and merchandise inundation really took off with the movies. That said, I remember even at 13 being mildly surprised […]

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11/10/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:61 |

Triple bingo!

The Kid by Dan Savage

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I feel like there’s some poetic justice in my “underrepresented” selection netting me a triple bingo, I like that a story about a gay couple adopting a baby SHOULD be valued more than the umpteenth story of a basic white dude finding himself and working out issues with his dad. More non-traditional narratives, please, especially ones this enjoyable There’s not a whole lot to celebrate these days where social progress is concerned, and  god, do we still have a long way to go, but it was nice to read this from the other side of marriage equality.  I alternately couldn’t […]

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11/9/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:60 |

Welcome?

Welcome to Night Vale by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor

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Improbably, this is my “cover art” selection, because despite a cult podcast with a large following, I had no idea this wasn’t just a standalone book, and gosh is it pretty. Plus, the art suggests something lighthearted or irreverent, and an NPR endorsement on the cover? Good enough for me. Plus, somehow I got my facts twisted and thought it was written by Blake Crouch and I REALLY liked Dark Matter. I wish I liked it more. I think some of my issue with the book was that a Twin Peaks-ish tone works better spoken or filmed than in print. […]

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11/9/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:59 |

It’s impressive I still want to travel here…

The Secret Place by Tana French

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Bingo Square for Dream Vacation. I’d love to go to Ireland, and funnily enough I bought this to read on my international trip where I met up with friends in Spain … after their first leg of the trip concluded in Dublin.  (Boring reasons I couldn’t go this time, but hoping to get another chance). Anyway, this is the fifth book I’ve read of French’s Dublin murder squad series, and given that theyre all about homicide, it’s pretty impressive that I still want to go, as the strong sense of place French imbues in all her books isn’t always inviting […]

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11/9/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:58 |

That wasn’t on the menu

The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan

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You guys, my “delicious” bingo square was supposed to be about food. I love reading about food – cooking, restaurants, food culture, the science of taste – it’s all catnip to me.  My coworkers mock me.  This was supposed to be an automatic good review.    It’s written by Michael Pollan.  It’s in the food writing section.  It’s subtitled “a natural history of four meals.” So where’s the food writing? I feel like the reader expecting Moby Dick to be an action tale and getting fifty pages describing whale blubber.  I might have preferred that, actually, at least muktuk is […]

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11/6/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:57 |

Can’t teach a Road Dog new tricks

Road Dogs by Elmore Leonard

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What’s with you, kid? You think the death of Raymond Chandler left an opening in the Rat Pack? Im amused that my pick for Home Sweet Home’s bingo square, Bloomfield Hills Michigan’s own Elmore Leonard, spends about two lines on Detroit before moving the action to California, in this apparent sequel to Out of Sight.  I dunno.  It was a buck and I needed that home square space, I saw the movie when I was in middle school, but I remember the plot points neatly called back to in the hero’s retrial in this book well enough to ID it […]

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11/5/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:56 |

Everything old is new again

The School for Wives; The Learned Ladies by Moliere

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For my “This Old Thing” square I finally bit the bullet and took this binding of two plays with me to jury duty to ensure I wouldn’t be tempted by more modern works, and shut my phone off. I needn’t have worried; it’s not like this would get mistaken for a written transcript of This Week Tonight or anything, but Moliere is not just remarkably readable, his views aren’t as antiquated as you might expect for someone writing in the mid 1600s. I picked these plays up on the cheap at a used bookstore (bound in one volume but two […]

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11/5/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:55 |


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