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Why be Emma when you could be Gildebarb?

Well Met by Jen DeLuca

February 1, 2021 by pineolliepple 1 Comment

Girl meets boy, girl hates boy, girl joins boy’s small-town Renaissance Faire as a busty tavern wench…you know the drill. I started getting into romcoms last summer as fluffy escapism from everything going on, and in the last eight months as things have grown increasingly dark I’m now averaging one spicy enemies-to-lovers for every two books of any other genre, so at this point, I’m just looking for a fun two-day read with a happy ending, the more bonkers the premise, the better. And in […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: jen deluca, Renaissance Faire, ye olde romcom

pineolliepple's CBR13 Review No:2 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: jen deluca, Renaissance Faire, ye olde romcom ·
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Teenage girls are so powerful

We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry

January 27, 2021 by pineolliepple 1 Comment

In Quan Barry’s We Ride Upon Sticks, it’s 1989, and the middling Danvers High School Girls Varsity Field Hockey Team turns to witchcraft to help them make it to state finals (with the help of a possibly-haunted Emilio Estevez-covered notebook dubbed “Emilio” and the local lore of neighbouring Salem, Massachusetts). I just finished the book and I’m lying in bed awake with my heart feeling like it might burst out of my chest because – the absolutely nuclear power of teenage girls, man. Written in […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: 80s, Fiction, high school, Quan Barry, varsity sports, witchcraft

pineolliepple's CBR13 Review No:1 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: 80s, Fiction, high school, Quan Barry, varsity sports, witchcraft ·
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I am putty in Madeline Miller’s hands

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

May 7, 2020 by pineolliepple Leave a Comment

I used to love Greek and Roman mythology as a kid, but Achilles and the Battle of Troy never interested me much. Too much gore and to be honest Achilles seems like a real douche. But Madeline Miller’s Circe was one of my favourite reads of 2019, so I figured that if any version of his story was ever going to be compelling, it was her debut novel, The Song of Achilles. The book is narrated by Patroclus, who as a boy is exiled by […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: ancient romance, greek mythology, madeline miller

pineolliepple's CBR12 Review No:4 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: ancient romance, greek mythology, madeline miller ·
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Desperate for answers, I tore through this book – and then there were no answers.

Trust Exercise by Susan Choi

April 22, 2020 by pineolliepple Leave a Comment

Desperate for answers, I pretty much blocked out the world to finish this book as fast as I could – and then there were no answers. Susan Choi as an author is a neutral higher power who knows what you want and then calmly chooses not to give it to you, leaving you spinning in place and trying dumbly to figure out what on earth just happened. “Think, use your brain, you’ve got this.” This makes it sound like I disliked the book. I did […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: contemporary fiction, Fiction, high school, susan choi

pineolliepple's CBR12 Review No:3 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: contemporary fiction, Fiction, high school, susan choi ·
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A vibrant coming-of-age story and a nice distraction from quarantimes

Dominicana by Angie Cruz

April 22, 2020 by pineolliepple Leave a Comment

Dominicana is a story of finding growth, opportunity, and autonomy in a life you never asked for. Ana Cancion grows up surrounded by people she loves in the Dominican countryside with no desire to leave, but when a prominent local businessman twice her age wants to marry her and take her to New York,  she doesn’t have much of a choice. As the first in her family to move to America, it’s on her to send money back to her parents and work to bring […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Angie Cruz, Fiction

pineolliepple's CBR12 Review No:2 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Angie Cruz, Fiction ·
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You know when it’s not the book’s fault you didn’t like it, you just read it at the wrong time?

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

March 24, 2020 by pineolliepple 2 Comments

I read On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous as a book club pick during the dead time between Christmas and New Year’s, and resented it the whole time for not being a lightweight romance or cozy mystery. If I had read it in deep February, I might have loved it. On Earth is a novel about inherited childhood trauma written as a letter by the narrator, Little Dog, to his mother, who will never read it. It jumps from events before his birth – the devastating […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: debut novel, epistolary novel, Fiction, ocean vuong

pineolliepple's CBR12 Review No:1 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: debut novel, epistolary novel, Fiction, ocean vuong ·
· 2 Comments


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