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I Did It

Saga, Vol. 1 by Brian K Vaughan and Fiona Staples

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I really can’t believe I’m reviewing my 52nd book of 2018, because I never thought I’d get here. 2018 was a slog, y’all. The funny thing is, I thought it was because I hadn’t read that many great books this year, but that wasn’t true at all–I could barely find a one least favorite for the CBR wrapup post because I had enjoyed almost everything I read. I just couldn’t get into writing the reviews this year. Luckily, I am extremely competitive with myself, and since I cannonballed the past 2 years there was no way I was going to […]

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12/16/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:52 |

So Perfectly Harriet

Harriet the Spy; The Long Secret by Louise Fitzhugh

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Harriet M. Welsch is such a gem. I’ve read both of these books, particularly Harriet the Spy, many, many times in my life because I so enjoy spending a little time with her. They both focus on Harriet (11 in Harriet the Spy, 12 in The Long Secret), a sixth-grader at an exclusive private school in New York City. She wants to be a writer someday, and has an insatiable curiosity that she feeds by writing down everything she observes in her notebook. She has a “spy route” of certain people in her neighborhood that she spies on regularly, but […]

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12/16/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:51 |

Why are we born, if not to help each other?

Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton

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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire. Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing, nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much. This is the story of the Reverend Stephen Kumalo, who lives […]

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12/16/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:6 |

Nothing more than a conjuror of cheap tricks

The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin

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How would you live your life if you knew when you were going to die? That’s the high-concept idea behind Chloe Benjamin’s The Immortalists, which opens in 1969 Brooklyn with the four Gold children, aged 7 to 13, visiting a fortune teller who gives each the exact date of his or her death. Three of the four are upset by their predictions, and each reacts differently in the following years.  Simon leaves home at 16 and follows his sister to San Francisco where he can finally be himself but devastating his mother and alienating his other siblings in the process. […]

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12/16/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:67 |

“I was brought up to believe that everyone brave is forgiven, but in wartime courage is cheap and clemency out of season.”

Everyone Brave is Forgiven by Chris Cleave

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I wonder if my lack of December reading progress has more to do with being busy with the holidays, my having already reached me 2018 reading goal or if it is because I have spent the last two weeks either depressed by or disappointed in my book choice. Perhaps it is a combination of the three. Everyone Brave is Forgiven focuses on three main characters who live in England at the onset of World War II. The novel opens with society girl Mary North who volunteers to aid the war effort and gets assigned a teaching position, much to her disappointment. […]

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12/16/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:123 |

“Humanity has many shortcomings, but none is stronger than pride.”

Beartown by Fredrik Backman, Neil Smith (Translator)

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Trigger Warning: sexual assault  I do not know much about hockey, I live in Texas and while Dallas has an NHL team the whole sport tends to fly under my radar, but you don’t need to know anything about hockey to be enraptured by Beartown. Saying I “enjoyed” Beartown doesn’t seem right, it isn’t a particularly enjoyable story, but like A Man Called Ove Backman delivers a very sad but beautiful story this time about life in a small Swedish town whose entire focus is on their youth hockey team. I’ve been sitting with this book for over a week not sure how to get this […]

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12/16/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:121 |

There are few things sadder for a reader than a book which lets them down.

Calling Me Home by Julie Kibler

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I am so disappointed in this book – I  had high hopes for it but in the end I felt empty. I really wanted to like this one, but the writing bothered me too much. The story is fine, not great but fine. There were a lot of stereotypical plot contrivances along the way. There were several times I rolled my eyes; popular media needs to stop perpetuating lazy stereotypes. So, what is the story about? After hearing  a story how her grandmother fell in love with a young black man when she was a teenager author Julie Kibler took […]

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12/16/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:62 |

(It’s a witty aside, do you see?)

Transcription by Kate Atkinson

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In 1940’s London, Juliet Armstrong is recruited to MI5. Initially doing mostly secretarial work, she finds herself tasked with more and more espionage, infiltrating right wing groups sympathising with Hitler. Ten years later, she’s working for the BBC when a run in with a former colleague brings her previous work back to haunt her. Is she going to pay for what she did for her country? I so struggled with this one, and it pains me to say it as I have enjoyed a couple of Atkinson’s other books this year. But this one was mostly tedious and confusing, with […]

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12/15/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:45 |


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