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#CBR10Bingo: Not My Wheelhouse – Running Like a Girl (Bingo #2)

Running Like a Girl by Alexandra Heminsley

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#CBR10Bingo: Not My Wheelhouse (the book is a) non-fiction and b) about running – neither of these things are in my usual wheelhouse) I was at a bit of a loss as to which genre or book to choose for the “Not My Wheelhouse” square on the CBR10 Bingo card, because while I primarily read romance, paranormal fantasy and YA (especially at the moment), I do try to branch out into other fiction genres every so often, and while I don’t read them as often any more, I wouldn’t consider science fiction or mystery or general historical and/or contemporary fiction outside […]

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10/20/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:89 |

Want to fall in love with Trevor Noah?

Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah

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I’d read good things about this book for a little while but I assumed it was just another comedian celebrity writing a book to make some money.  Since I usually spend money on those exact books, I bought this with one of my first Audible credits.  I’ve always thought that comedians who read their own books are the very best of narrators so it seemed like a safe pick.  I’d watched the Daily Show with Trevor a few times.  A little less often than I did the Jon Stewart version but not much less.  In fact, I’d say I watched […]

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10/18/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:40 |

CBR10 Bingo: Alabama Pink and a third Bingo

Enchantment: The Life of Audrey Hepburn by Donald Spoto

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Lollygagger recently reviewed a different book, Wicked, for the same Bingo Square- Alabama Pink- and came away with the realization that they would probably not have belonged in the same book club. I agree; Enchantment was the only book that interested me from the list of books Alabama Pink was able to read and review before her untimely death (I have yet to muster the motivation for our upcoming Book Club selection) and it was severely disappointing. I do wonder though, is it possible to glean a complete picture of one’s literary taste from only eleven books? The first eleven books I read […]

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10/18/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:107 |

Please don’t get a bird on a whim

Birds of a Feather by Lorin Lindner

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I am a sucker for animals. So, even though I don’t have any, I was immediately drawn to the cover of Birds of a Feather (2018) by Lorin Lindner. Now, birds are not my favorite, but when you look a little deeper, they are smart and fascinating creatures. Since they often live in very complex, social societies, they can relate to humans in surprising ways. And they can talk to us! I’d already read Alex & Me by Irene Pepperberg, and I was willing to read more about parrots. When I looked closer, I saw that Lindner’s book was both about saving parrots as […]

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10/17/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:35 |

Sort of does what it says on the tin. Worth checking out, anyway, if it sound interesting to you!

Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain by Abby Norman

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I liked this overall, but had a hard time reading it, and it wasn’t what I was expecting. Abby Norman dropped out of college due to debilitating pain she started experiencing one day, and which doctors minimized for years before she finally was semi-diagnosed with Endometriosis (among other things). The title and synopsis of this book makes it seem like more of a book about the relationship between women and doctors, but really this is a memoir that mostly focuses on Abby’s medical history, and she sort of extrapolates outward (with help from research, yes) how her journey was affected […]

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10/15/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:124 |

I am forty-six years old and that is my insight, that life is made up of events that have to be parried.

Spring; Summer by Karl Ove Knausgard

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Spring – 5/5 Stars Summer – 4/5 Stars The first two volumes of Karl Ove Knausgard’s Årstidsencyklopedien Cycle (which translates to something like Seasonal Encyclopedia) function more or less as the title suggests. A few years ago, after completing what is likely his masterwork My Struggle, a six-volume series of novels based on an interpretative view of his life (and I have to say having read the first three, that while they do focus on a lot of minutia, they are much more structures, focused, and broadly appealing that any description can represent), Karl Ove Knausgard turned his writer’s pen to […]

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10/15/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:365 |

This Chicken is no chicken!

The Hen Who Sailed Around the World by Guirec Soudee

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The Hen Who Sailed Around the World by Guirec Soudee is the true story of Soudee’s 3,400-mile sea voyage with his pet hen, Monique. That pretty much sums up the story. There are lots of wonderful photographs of Soudee with Monique. And lots of wonderful photographs of Monique by herself. Not to mention lots of wonderful photographs of some of the friends they meet along the way. And we cannot forget the lots and lots of photographs of ice. Lots and lots of ice. The best description of Monique comes from a publisher description: “she surfs, she skateboards, and she […]

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10/15/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:387 |

Audrey is Great. This Book? Not So Much. (CBR10Bingo)

Enchantment: The Life of Audrey Hepburn by Donald Spoto

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When we were voting for the AlabamaPink book club this book was my second choice (even though I don’t vote my first choice was Between the Bridge and the River and I’ll be talking about my feelings on that one in my next review) so choosing this for the Alabama Pink bingo square made perfect sense to me. I like biographies, Audrey Hepburn, and classic Hollywood – done and done. I am however left underwhelmed by the reading experience of this book. I think it can be attributed to the style of its author. Donald Spoto is a writer and […]

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10/14/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:49 |


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