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I am a newly staying-at-home mom who loves to read and hates cancer!

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Not Any Great Things

Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult

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I’ve never read anything by Jodi Picoult. Her stuff always seemed a little cheesy to me. But, one of my book clubs is reading Small Great Things this month so I gave it a go. I was right. I hate read this in its entirety and you’ll enjoy my rambling, disconnected diatribe on why it sucked. Small Great Things is the story of Ruth Jefferson, a 40-something African-American nurse in New Haven, CT; she is a 20-year veteran of the L&D ward and quite good at her job. One day, she goes to treat newborn baby Davis Bauer and gets […]

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6/20/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:23 |

Nothing to do with turtles, really

Turtles All the Way Down by John Green

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I don’t profess to be the picture of mental health, but overall I’d say I don’t have a lot of experience with depression, anxiety, or any other mental disorders. Maybe it’s my WASPy suppressive tendencies? In our YA book club, the woman who suggested John Green’s Turtles All the Way Down described it as “the best depiction of anxiety” she’d ever seen, so I was intrigued. Turtles tells the story of Aza, a young woman dealing (poorly, but trying) with serious anxiety and OCD. Aza’s best friend Daisy convinces her to help discover the location of a missing local billionaire […]

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6/20/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:22 |

Random Pennyroyal Green Selection

It Happened One Midnight by Julie Anne Long

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I’ve read another book since having finished Julie Anne Long’s It Happened One Midnight, so I have forgotten some of the particulars, but I enjoyed another entry of the Pennyroyal Green series that seems so endless. This particular book, the eighth, is the story of Jonathan Redmond (third son of an aristocrat of unremembered rank) and Thomasina de Bellesteros, a popular, mysterious and attractive women who entertains in an eccentric Countess’ salon every week. Jonathan Redmond is a rake, or so his character description and narrative implies, though we have little evidence in the actual story. He mentions having been […]

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6/20/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:21 |

Pirates, Forbidden Love and a Quest

The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee

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Mackenzi Lee’s The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue is ripe for film or TV adaptation and is something I totally would have loved reading as a teenager. However, I am older than Lee’s target audience and still enjoyed the ride, but with some prudish gasps and doubts interspersed here and there. Guide is the story of young Henry Montague, the oldest son of an earl, bound for the traditional continental tour young men would take prior to settling down, with his best friend Percy (with whom he is totally and secretly in love) and his sister Felicity (with whom […]

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5/23/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:20 |

Shitty Stuff Happening to Sad, Angry, Poor People

Dark Places by Gillian Flynn

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After serious reading I like to read something more quick and dirty, so I finally got around to reading Gillian Flynn’s Dark Places, something I’d bought for a Kindle deal of the day ages ago and never felt like approaching. I was right to be hesitant I guess.  While l enjoyed Gone Girl for the most part, I think I’ve gotten sick of the trend of having incredibly unlikeable main characters and awful situations and twists. Flynn has all of these in Dark Places and while I credit her for keeping me guessing until the end this time (I knew […]

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5/11/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:19 |

Don’t do the audiobook

The Mother of All Questions by Rebecca Solnit

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I really should stop trying audiobooks. Though I can listen to podcasts fairly attentively (depending on the subject matter of course), for whatever reason I don’t enjoy audiobooks. I space out a lot and if the person reading it aloud has an annoying voice I just can’t get into it. For these and other reasons I didn’t love Rebecca Solnit’s The Mother of All Questions.  One of the new book clubs I’ve joined is all local moms with a feminist bent, so our book selections are all from women authors, and Solnit’s essay collection was the book for April. I […]

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5/11/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:18 |

Teen Angst Kills

One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus

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Karen M. McManus’ One of Us Is Lying is often described as a blend of Gossip Girl or Pretty Little Liars and The Breakfast Club. Five high school seniors walk into detention one afternoon and by the end of the day, one of them is dead. When it turns out the death was a homicide, naturally the other four students are suspects. When we discover the victim ran a nasty gossip app that was about to reveal dirty secrets on the other four kids in detention, suspicions raise even further. Now Bronwyn, Addy, Cooper and Nate have to figure out […]

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4/27/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:17 |

Generation X Geeks Apply Here

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

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I was born in March of 1979, so I consider myself (whether correctly or not) some of the youngest Gen-Xers and generally a child of the 80s and 90s. The 90s were where my tastes in music were more formulated, but the 80s was my childhood. Though I generally avoid fantasy gaming, rpg’s, etc., I knew I would find something appealing in Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One. And, to be honest, though it’s been sitting on my kindle for over two years now, I wanted to read it before I saw the movie.  I enjoyed Ready Player One for the […]

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4/24/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:16 |


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