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“If there is one man to whom I do feel myself inferior, it is a coal-miner”

The road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell

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George Orwell is not a great writer, but he is an admirable journalist. He does not shy away from difficulty or experiencing hardship on his own body. I admire him a lot for this trait of character. In The road to Wigan Pier he was commissioned by “the left bookclub” to write about the experience of miners in Yorkshire and Lancashire. Orwell has never been anything but clearly socialist and this is a book about socialism and an attempt to argue for its benefits for every layer and class in society. And oh, how I love his ardent passion, even […]

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7/20/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:18 |

“What can the harvest hope for, if not for the care of the Reaper Man?”

Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett

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Times up for death. He’s been handed his notice and he now has a little hourglass counting down the days till he will go. So he does what anyone might do, he quits his job and decides to go traveling. He travels exactly to where miss Flitworth needs a farmhand on her lonely farm. So he becomes a harvester. Meanwhile all the life that was supposed to run out, lingers on in the world causing all sorts of problems; especially for one Windle Poons who just wanted to not just die, but certainly also rest in peace. “Light thinks it […]

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6/30/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:17 |

“Life is the thing you bring with you inside your own head.”

Normal People by Sally Rooney

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This book damn near killed me. And I’m still not quite sure what to say about it. On the surface the plot is simple; two people from different walks of life come together, don’t always communicate great and life ensues. The book is told in alternating chapters from Connell and Marianne’s perspective, jumping in time with each chapter. They meet as teenagers and start having sex and (maybe) falling in love. Connell feels like he is truly himself when Marianne is around. Marianne falls under his spell and will do anything he asks…until she doesn’t. “Marianne had the sense that […]

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6/24/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:16 |

“When you have chosen a path, you must walk it with courage.”

Memories of Ash by Intisar Khanani

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Memories of Ash is the second instalment of the Sunbolt Chronicles, a series that I hope goes on forever, but only just till the day I die, so that there will never exist a book in the series that I haven’t read. Memories of Ash meets Hikaru as she is living with Brigit Stormwind in a hidden valley being trained as a secret apprentice. One day a rogue hunter (as in someone who hunts secret apprentices) comes knocking; Stormwind has been charged with multiple crimes by the evil Blackflame and therefore she is summoned to the council and must follow […]

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6/19/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:15 |

Justice served with a side of pineapple. That’s what I’m here for.

Sunbolt by Intisar Khanani

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Sunbolt is one of those books that suck you in and you can’t put down. We meet Hitomi as she is on her way to a secret meeting that she hasn’t been invited to. A fortune teller stops her and begs to tell her fortune (which is of course delightfully vague and thrillingly ominous) telling her to run. Soon, sure enough the armed guards of the evil Blackflame are at her heals and she must run to escape them. Not just because she is foreign, but also because she is an un-registered Promise, meaning she has magic in her, but […]

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5/5/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:14 |

Good Omens is a Love Story

Good Omens by Neil Gaimann and Terry Pratchett

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An angel and a demon have been working undercover on Earth for a long time. So long, in fact, that they’ve become friends – of a sort. Together one of them does bad and the other does good – usually according to whether they’re demon or not, but even so; they’ve been on Earth long enough to help each other out. And maybe, just maybe, they both like Earth just a little bit. “People couldn’t become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.” There’s just a tiny problem. Their bosses have decided that […]

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4/23/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:13 |

Men of sense, whatever you may choose to say, do not want silly wives.

Emma by Jane Austen

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Jane Austen famously described Emma as “A heroine whom no-one but myself will much like.” and I might agree. Emma Woodhouse is a rich young woman in a society where not much happens. She entertains herself by fancying herself a match maker and she takes on a protegé, of lower social ranking, intending on making her a match. Her friend Mr. Knightley warns her of this endeavour, but Emma is headstrong and believes a little too much in her self to listen to advice from anybody else. Also Emma doesn’t know what love is. She finds a match for herself […]

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4/15/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:12 |

A boy and a penguin

Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers

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All of us are lonely and unsure in friendships and relationships, but still friendships happen in their own weird, imperfect ways. Such is the tale of Lost and Found. A boy discovers a penguin and the penguin is sad. The boy wants to make the penguin happy, but no matter what he does the penguin is sad. The boy then decides that the penguin is homesick and they set out together on a perilous journey to get to the south pole. There, the boy leaves the penguin, but now both the penguin and the boy are sadder than they were […]

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3/30/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:11 |


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