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Pelvic floor exercises have now been added to my to-do list

This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay

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This is Going to Hurt: The Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor is important reading for any Brit who’s about to vote without bearing the future of the NHS in mind. I’ve worked in that arena for the last 15 years and the last 10 years of that has been under the banner of ‘austerity’. In that time we’ve seen services go from underfunded to seriously critical, with staff breaking more and more regularly thanks to the increased stresses and strains that go hand in hand with said underfunding, increased patient need, and a workforce that is fleeing for less […]

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12/4/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:47 |

Whodunnit, meet Breakfast Club

One of Us is Lying by Karen M. McManus

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The Breakfast Club goes slightly wonky as five students enter detention, but only four leave. The nerd, the princess, the jock and the criminal are those left standing, while the deceased – the gossip blogger – had been about to ruin each of their lives by publishing their deepest secrets in his latest post. So who did the deed? It’s a slow burn to find out, following each of the group as they deal with the fall out from Simon’s death, the media having turned their lenses on them and blown their secrets wide anyway, further fuelling the fire of […]

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11/19/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:46 |

I’m getting kinda weary of this series now

The Skull Throne (Demon Cycle #4) by Peter V Brett

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We’ve reached the fourth book in the Demon Cycle, and I can’t really tell if I’m really enjoying it anymore. It certainly didn’t help that, despite there actually being some moving forward of plot and some deaths of people that actually matter to the book, The Skull Throne felt to me like a bit of a retread of The Daylight War.  It picks up exactly where it left off, after one of our potential delivers threw himself and his rival off a cliff, and while the outcome to that deed may not be what one would normally expect in those […]

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10/26/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:45 |

“We were too tired to help. Above 8,000 meters is not a place where people can afford morality”

Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer

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With the best bit about my last, ultimately disappointing read turning out to be the actual climbing of Mount Everest, I decided to stick with that theme but turn to real life for my next read. I’d enjoyed other books by Jon Krakauer and so decided that he’d make a good guide for me. Into Thin Air did not disappoint. Sent by the magazine he was employed by at the time, the story Krakauer came home with was very different to the one he’d intended, after having survived the 1996 expedition that took the lives of eight people. Into Thin […]

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10/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:44 |

It’s been a long time since I was this disappointed in a book

The Abominable by Dan Simmons

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This review contains spoilers, so if you want to save The Abominable for yourself, you’re not going to want to read what follows. . . . . Not too long ago, I read and loved The Terror which was a delicious mix of history and fiction, spiced up with a little supernatural to make a truly compelling book set in a place I love reading about. I thought that The Abominable would do for climbing Everest what The Terror did for Artic exploration. On this front, the first two parts of the book delivered. But sadly, despite the promise on […]

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10/2/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:43 |

“Gaia listened carefully to this wise counsel and – as we all do, whether mortal or immortal – ignored it.”

Mythos by Stephen Fry

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I’ve loved Greek mythology since I was a kid (I blame Harryhausen for kickstarting this) and I can’t think of a more delightful way to spend my time than reading their tales as told by Stephen Fry whilst lounging in the sun in Rhodes, gazing at the Aegean Sea as someone brings me drinks and calamari from the taverna mere steps away. This has hands down been my most lovely reading experience of the year and if you ever get the chance to do the same I would highly recommend it. Fry offers up these treasures in a witty, colloquial […]

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10/2/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:42 |

Two weddings and a shitload of funerals

The Daylight War by Peter V. Brett

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In the third book in the Demon Cycle series, interspersed with flashbacks of Inavera’s life which let us see what’s already happened from a perspective that I couldn’t care less about, The Daylight War sees us treading water a little in the run-up to the eventual face off between humanity and the demons that stalk the land. Ahmann Jardir is partway through his conquest of the west and still has Leesha and Rojer as his ‘guests’ at Everam’s Bounty. While Jardir tries to convince Leesha to become his millionth wife, he also takes the opportunity to get Rojer matrimonied up […]

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10/2/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:41 |

This series is turning out to be a little addictive

The Desert Spear by Peter V Brett

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The second book in the Demon Cycle series, Desert Spear takes us away from Thesa and into Krasia, the country whose warrior culture has seen them become the only people to have taken up demon fighting and whose leader, Jardir, has taken the Spear of Kaji from Arlen and pronounced himself Deliverer.  As well as being warriors, the Krasian’s are also deeply religious and believe that before they can end demonkind in a Battle Royale, first they must conquer the known world, putting them on a collision course with the people of Thesa. But Jardir has a plan to avoid […]

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9/17/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:40 |


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