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You, Sir, Are No Colin Firth

The Trials of the Honorable F. Darcy by Sarah Angelini

January 17, 2019 by The Mama 2 Comments

It has admittedly been a long time since I read Pride & Prejudice. My memories of that book have probably been conflated with the several retreads that have come out in the last twenty years, most notably Bridget Jones. And maybe I need a reread in order to compare Austen to Angelini. Or maybe P&P just isn’t that great (blasphemy!)? But it feels like I’d remember if Original Recipe Darcy was this much of a prick. Judge Fitzwilliam Darcy is a British barrister with an expertise in international law, who also happens to be the youngest judge in San Francisco. […]

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1/17/2019 | The Mama's CBR11 Review No:2 |
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| Tags: pride & prejudice, Sara Angelini, The Mama | Category: Fiction, Romance | 2 Comments

WTF Indeed

The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan by Kim Barker

January 6, 2019 by The Mama Leave a Comment

A couple of years ago, a movie came and went starring Tina Fey called Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, the military call letters for WTF. I didn’t even remember the movie until I went looking for reviews for The Taliban Shuffle after I’d read it. I sometimes like to read reviews after I’ve finished a book, just to see if my thinking is in line with the critics’. One thing I discovered while doing so this time, apart from the fact that the book was made in to a movie, was that the reviews are as mixed as the characters in Kim […]

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1/6/2019 | The Mama's CBR11 Review No:1 |
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| Tags: #memoir, Kim Barker, Middle East, The Mama, war | Category: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction | 0 Comments

(belated) Christmas gift exchange thank you!

Turtles All The Way Down and Forks, Knives, and Spoons: A Novel by John Green and Leah DeCesare

December 15, 2017 by The Mama 2 Comments

You may remember that I’ve talked about Boss here before, the man who makes fun of my reading selections, but on a spiritual retreat once took a copy of Hulk Hogan’s biography instead of a “spiritual awakening book”. He dropped an open Amazon box on my desk the other day and said, “Oops. I opened these. I assumed it was for me cause you never get stuff.” So many, many thanks to Lori for my gift of Turtles All The Way Down and Forks, Knives, and Spoons, and extra thanks for giving me one more thing to give him crap […]

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12/15/2017 The Mama's CBR9 Review No:0 |
| Tags: gift exchange, Lori, The Mama | Category: Uncategorized | 2 Comments

THIS BOOK IS STUPID

Grey by E.L. James

December 10, 2017 by The Mama 3 Comments

I’ve decided to half cannonball on this, the worst of all the books I’ve read this year. Mainly because that’s how it’s come up in my giant back log of reviews, but also because it somehow feels fitting after the way this year has gone. I read the originals a year or so after they came out. They read like what they are: poorly written fan fiction based on a not particularly good original story. They’re problematic for all the reasons that have been discussed in zillions of online forums and think pieces. They’re also problematic for all the grammatical […]

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12/10/2017 The Mama's CBR9 Review No:26 |
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| Tags: E.L. James, Fifty Shades of Grey, The Mama | Category: Fiction, Romance | 3 Comments

I can’t remember anything about this book except for bioterrorism and Lula with a “personal massager”

Tricky Twenty-Two by Janet Evanovich

December 10, 2017 by The Mama Leave a Comment

Somewhere on my Stephanie Plum journey, I missed number 22. And I have to be honest, I don’t quite remember what happened. Wacky shenanigans, Bob pooping everywhere, Lula, Grandma, Mrs. Plum ironing, Morelli being a cop, Ranger hotly being hot… it’s all the same, just with a different bad guy. There’s something about a fraternity (is there a college in Trenton?), a murder of a guy nobody liked, and I kind of remember some sort of radioactive bug or some other kind of weird bioterrorism in the basement of either the college or the fraternity. Which begs the question: is […]

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12/10/2017 The Mama's CBR9 Review No:25 |
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| Tags: Janet Evanovich, Stephanie Plum, The Mama | Category: Fiction, Mystery, Romance | 0 Comments

Hurricanes and Hockey

The Ivy Years series by Sabrina Bowen

December 10, 2017 by The Mama 2 Comments

About two months ago, which tells you how far behind I am on my reviews, Hurricane Irma was bearing down on Florida. Each day we watched the cone move further and further west, until it looked like it was going to come right up the west coast and in to Tampa Bay. And each day, I packed more things into bags and suitcases, until finally, on Friday afternoon, they declared a mandatory evacuation of my entire town. I went home to collect my kid and the last of my important things, filmed the interior of my house, and got the […]

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12/10/2017 The Mama's CBR9 Review No:24 |
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| Tags: New Adult, Sabrina Bowen, Scootsa1000, The Mama | Category: Fiction, Romance, Uncategorized | 2 Comments

It’s no Beautiful Bastard, and that’s a good thing

Dating You / Hating You by Christina Lauren

December 9, 2017 by The Mama 2 Comments

Christina Lauren is pretty popular around these parts, and Dating You / Hating You seems to top most lists. The only book I’ve read from the collection is the one that started it all, Beautiful Bastard, and let’s just say I wasn’t a fan. So I broke up with CL and the Beautiful series, and didn’t give it another thought, until Dating You / Hating You was free on the library website, and since all of you guys seemed to like it, I thought I’d give it another shot. And it wasn’t too awful. Carter and Evie are both talent […]

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12/9/2017 The Mama's CBR9 Review No:19 |
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| Tags: Beautiful Series, Christina Lauren, Dating You Hating You, The Mama | Category: Fiction, Romance | 2 Comments

Don’t Hate Me Because I’m Beautiful

Pretty Face by Lucy Parker

December 9, 2017 by The Mama 2 Comments

From the author of Act Like It comes another Cannonball favorite, Pretty Face. And while, if I remember right, Pretty Face wasn’t as strongly loved as Act Like It, I definitely enjoyed it more. Act Like It was just okay in my book; this one gets an additional two stars. Grumpy director Luc Savage is reviving a classic West End theatre, and needs a new star. Enter Lily Lamprey, clearly the best actress for the job, even if she doesn’t have the resume. Lily is a soap star, low man on the theatre totem pole, and is “too sexy” for […]

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12/9/2017 The Mama's CBR9 Review No:18 |
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| Tags: Lucy Parker, The Mama | Category: Fiction, Romance | 2 Comments
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