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Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time
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Stilettos, gossip, and a touch of murder

January 8, 2017 by genericwhitegirl 3 Comments

Okay, guys. I’m going to tell you the biggest secret I’ve discovered so far for 2017…It will get you reading more books, faster than ever. Read on if you want your mind blown…it’s…audiobooks. Okay, so maybe I’m a late bloomer on this one. But for real, y’all, this is a game changer. Just like cell phones, Myspace, Facebook, insert-anything-technological-here-that-I-discovered-years-after-everyone-else was. But hey! I just used a gif. Besides the few audiobooks I’ve heard on road trips, this was my first non-vacational audio book for my […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: Big Little Lies, genericwhitegirl, Liane Moriarty

genericwhitegirl's CBR9 Review No:1 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Mystery · Tags: Big Little Lies, genericwhitegirl, Liane Moriarty ·
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If “American Gods” was written by a toddler on Ritalin

January 8, 2017 by Caitlin_D 2 Comments

This was another instance of I Want More (but maybe, a little differently!) Cory O’Brien retells popular and lesser known myths in a style that reads more “Internet blogging” (all the CAPS) than “published author.” It’s fun and entertaining for the first few, better known, myths but it gets old and makes some of the unfamiliar myths harder to read. There are also a lot of dick jokes. “So obviously the moral of the story is that the best way to deal with a rampaging psychopath […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: cory o'brien, Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes, Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes: A No-Bullshit Guide to World Mythology

Caitlin_D's CBR9 Review No:3 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: cory o'brien, Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes, Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes: A No-Bullshit Guide to World Mythology ·
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Did I Write a Book and Forget??!

January 8, 2017 by expandingbookshelf 4 Comments

      In this fractured, fearful and uncertain climate, one woman is challenging the status quo, speaking truth to power, and asking the questions the system doesn’t want you to ask. That woman is Jessi Klein. Her question: “Seriously, did Richard Gere shove a gerbil up his butt? Like all the way up there? Whatever, I’m just going to believe it’s true.” Now, I’m not going to pretend the occupancy status of  American Treasure Mr. Richard Gere’s backdoor is the central thesis of Klein’s […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor Tagged With: #memoir, essays, feminism, Jessi Klein, you'll grow out of it

expandingbookshelf's CBR9 Review No:2 · Genres: Comedy/Humor · Tags: #memoir, essays, feminism, Jessi Klein, you'll grow out of it ·
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Look at that fluffy unicorn! It’s so fluffy, I could die!

January 6, 2017 by kdm 13 Comments

Warning: DEFINITELY NSFW, and all of the spoilers. In keeping with tradition, I decided to start CBR9 off with a bang…or at least, a Tingle.  As I’ve already covered 2 of author Chuck Tingle’s preferred 4 types of erotica (living objects and dinosaurs), I figured that it was time to grab this one by the horn. I swear this gets harder every year. …Dammit. What I mean is that these books are getting more and more difficult to swallow. OH FFS. Our story opens with “If you […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Romance Tagged With: chuck tingle, erotica, Fake News Real Boners

kdm's CBR9 Review No:1 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Romance · Tags: chuck tingle, erotica, Fake News Real Boners ·
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“I want to be one of the most joy-inducing human beings that you’ve ever encountered.”

January 6, 2017 by ArchaeoKelly 3 Comments

My initial impulse was to use the following The Princess Diarist quote as title for this review, “If you have a penis and a job, being handsome is a fantastic bonus but hardly a necessity.” My decision to purchase and read The Princess Diarist is not an original one following the death of Carrie Fisher.  I am not alone in having found her to be a childhood role model as Princess Leia and again as adult Carrie Fisher.  She seemed so approachable and she allowed […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor Tagged With: carrie fisher

ArchaeoKelly's CBR9 Review No:2 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor · Tags: carrie fisher ·
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World Domination 101

January 5, 2017 by Valtaga Dee 2 Comments

This was an impulse library check out since the YA room was right there when I was returning some DVDs and I didn’t feel like running upstairs. I’m so glad that I grabbed it, it was right up my alley. Cadel is a young genius, taken to see a psychologist for troubled youth after he gets caught hacking into the power grid in his Australian city, at the ripe old age of 7 years old. But oddly enough, the first thing Dr. Roth does is […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Young Adult Tagged With: Catherine Jinks, world domination

Valtaga Dee's CBR9 Review No:4 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Young Adult · Tags: Catherine Jinks, world domination ·
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