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> Genre: Book Club

Family secrets and a ghost story

Black Water Sister by Zen Cho

January 28, 2023 by persnickety chick 1 Comment

I do love the tagline- She was trouble, so is her ghost. First book of the year (well first review), first CBR Passport book (book about another country).  This was a book that i suggested for my IRL book club (because i already owned it), so the review considers their responses as well. While I have owned “Sorcerer to the Crown” for a number of years I have never quite gotten into it and it took reading a book of short stories by Zen Cho […]

Filed Under: Book Club, Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: CBR15, CBR15Passport, ghosts, malaysia, Zen Cho

persnickety chick's CBR15 Review No:1 · Genres: Book Club, Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: CBR15, CBR15Passport, ghosts, malaysia, Zen Cho ·
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“No one tells you before you procreate that the hardest thing about being a good parent is that you never feel like one.”

The Winners by Fredrik Backman

January 17, 2023 by jomidi 4 Comments

I have been reading Fredrik Backman since A Man Called Ove. I mean reading everything he has ever written (including the novellas).  So, when a friend suggested we go see him at a local library, I jumped at the chance. I have seen lots of author presentations (I call myself a bit of an author groupie), and his was one of the best. He was wonderful: well spoken, polite, humble, insightful, smart, and most of all, very funny. The event included a signed book, so I […]

Filed Under: Book Club, Fiction Tagged With: Beartown, CBR15Passport, Fiction, Fredrik Backman, the winners

jomidi's CBR15 Review No:1 · Genres: Book Club, Fiction · Tags: Beartown, CBR15Passport, Fiction, Fredrik Backman, the winners ·
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Surprisingly, I liked it!

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

November 20, 2022 by Wanderlustful Leave a Comment

This book had been sitting on my TBR pile for years and I finally got to it this year. Not only do I get the satisfaction of finally finishing it, but I was pleasantly surprised to find that that I quite enjoyed it. Our first person narrator Susie Salmon is a 14 year old girl living with her family in small town Pennsylvania in the early 1970s. When the story starts, Susie is telling her story from beyond the grave (her ‘heaven’), sharing the story […]

Filed Under: Book Club, Fiction Tagged With: Alice sebold, The Lovely Bones

Wanderlustful's CBR14 Review No:23 · Genres: Book Club, Fiction · Tags: Alice sebold, The Lovely Bones ·
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“There’s a Lid for Every Pot”

The Matchmaker's Gift by Lynda Cohen Loigman

November 11, 2022 by jomidi Leave a Comment

I have been a fan of Lynda Cohen Loigman’s books for several years. I was looking forward to The Matchmaker’s Gift and it did not disappoint. Loigman writes historical fiction centering around the Jewish immigrant community in New York City. Her books are well researched and she captures their experiences very well. The book is set in two time periods.  In 1994 Abby is a divorce attorney working for a very demanding boss. She is mourning her grandmother, Sara, who helped raise her and her […]

Filed Under: Book Club, Fiction, History Tagged With: book club, historical fiction; jewish history;, Lynda Cohen Loigman, The Matchmaker's Gift

jomidi's CBR14 Review No:13 · Genres: Book Club, Fiction, History · Tags: book club, historical fiction; jewish history;, Lynda Cohen Loigman, The Matchmaker's Gift ·
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Perfect Halloween Read

Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

October 11, 2022 by jomidi 1 Comment

I am part of a YA for everyone book group at my local library. The organizer tries to pick books that fit the time of year, so for October, Halloween, we are reading Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas. I had no idea what this book was about, which is sometimes a great way to be pleasantly surprised.  Well, I really liked this book, it was such a fun ghost story. Yadriel is a trans teen who is trying to become a brujo. His Latinix family […]

Filed Under: Book Club, Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: #fantasy, Aiden Thomas, Cemetery Boys, coming-of-age, day of the dead, Fiction, Ghost, halloween, YA

jomidi's CBR14 Review No:10 · Genres: Book Club, Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: #fantasy, Aiden Thomas, Cemetery Boys, coming-of-age, day of the dead, Fiction, Ghost, halloween, YA ·
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The moments of his life, shaping us all

All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson

September 21, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I bounce between a 3.5 and 4 with All Boys Aren’t Blue as the flow of things sometimes was off for me. However, the subject is very good, and I think could be valuable to even those who have not/or will not follow a similar path as George M. Johnson. Even though his intended audience was not exactly aimed at someone like me, I was able to appreciate his voice and his story. For sure this is not for the very young due to language […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Book Club, Health, Non-Fiction, Romance, Sports, Young Adult Tagged With: #BannedBooks, African American gay men, bookclub, Cultural &Ethnic & Regional, George M. Johnson, glbtq, identity

BlackRaven's CBR14 Review No:493 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Book Club, Health, Non-Fiction, Romance, Sports, Young Adult · Tags: #BannedBooks, African American gay men, bookclub, Cultural &Ethnic & Regional, George M. Johnson, glbtq, identity ·
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