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The book was better? Yes, yes it was…but the movie was really fun too.

To All the Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han

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In lesser hands, a novel about a girl, Lara Jean, having her secret letters she wrote to each of her five crushes accidentally mailed out, would be a fun but slight high school romp of a story. But author Jenny Han delivers something even better with “To all the Boys I’ve Loved Before”. Sure, this is a romance but more than that, it’s a story about sisters, family and the subtle way grief lingers and shapes us. Relatively sheltered and an introvert, biracial Lara Jean is the middle child of “Song girls”.  Left motherless due to a childhood tragedy the girls […]

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10/16/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:4 |

H*cking finally

Between the Bridge and the River by Craig Ferguson

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Lord save me from the overrated ramblings of mediocre white men. What possessed Craig Ferguson to write this? Did he just want to add “writer” to his list of credits? Was he thumbing his nose at the literary world just to see what they would publish? Had he somehow deluded himself into thinking this was good? In a weird way, reading this made me think of watching that new movie, The Front Runner, in that it made me question why it existed in the first place. I got nothing from it but ocular exhaustion from rolling my eyes. This was the […]

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10/16/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:118 |

Bittersweet end to soap opera like urban fantasy

An Unkindness of Magicians by Kat Howard

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I say “soap opera like” in the best possible way.  A disinherited heir trying to regain power, siblings facing the potential of having to duel one another to the death, a surprise twin, a scheming patriarch manipulating others to further his agenda, and everyone is trying to gain power and raise themselves in the hierarchy.  All this is set amidst a magical tournament to determine which House will lead the Unseen World, the world of magicians kept secret from the mundane.  Every twenty years or so Fortune’s Wheel begins Turning, ‘When it ceases rotation, all will be made new”. The Turning […]

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10/16/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:41 |

The most futile thing a man can do is to ponder the alternative.

The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron

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CBR10Bingo – Home Something Home So I grew up in and currently live in Virginia. And I am from the western part of the state, which is more conservative than I like to admit these days, but also was significantly poorer and mountainous than the huge farming belts in the middle and eastern parts of the state. And so begins the lie that many white people like to tell themselves reflecting on their place in the South in a post-Civil War society. The people of my hometown as a whole were no more “innocent” of slavery and its crimes than […]

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10/15/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:370 |

My favourite thing about this was probably the doll funerals

The Governess Game by Tessa Dare

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3.5 stars From Goodreads, because I’m a month and a half behind on my reviews: After her livelihood slips through her fingers, Alexandra Mountbatten takes on an impossible post: transforming a pair of wild orphans into proper young ladies. However, the girls don’t need discipline. They need a loving home. Try telling that to their guardian, Chase Reynaud: duke’s heir in the streets and devil in the sheets. The ladies of London have tried—and failed—to make him settle down. Somehow, Alexandra must reach his heart . . . without risking her own. Like any self-respecting libertine, Chase lives by one […]

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10/15/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:86 |

The middle of a novel is a state of mind. Strange things happen in it. Time collapses.

Changing My Mind; Their Eyes were Watching God; Netherland; Remainder by Zadie Smith; Zora Neale Hurston; Joseph O'Neill; Tom McCarthy

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Changing My Mind – 4/5 Stars So this post is a compendium of reviews based initially on my reading of this, Zadie Smith’s early collection of essays. These essays are not part of an intentional collection and represent a set number of years of nonfiction writing projects for Smith. The best of them are the reviews, including and sometimes especially her movie reviews, longform journalism (which is the least interesting, if not impactful writing in the book), writing about writing, and writing about her father. Her reviews often pair books or films together, as a lot of say London Review […]

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10/15/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:369 |

A pretty depressing bingo

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

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Bingo Square: Award Winner In August of 1944, Saint-Malo in France is under siege. 16 year old Marie-Laure, blind since the age of six, is trying to survive the bombing and hide from someone who is searching for her. 18 year old Werner, a German solider, is trapped in the rubble of a hotel. From this starting point we go back several years, to Marie-Laure first losing her sight, and Werner’s childhood in an orphanage with his younger sister. Marie-Laure lives with her father, a locksmith at a museum, and he creates for her a model of their neighbourhood, so […]

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10/15/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:39 |

What we imagine is not always true but usually the reality is better

Zola’s Elephant by Randall de Seve

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Zola’s Elephant is one of those books that should have its own rating system. Maybe it is an apple. I like apples, but I prefer grapes. The story is three and a half apples while the illustrations are four apples. I like Zola’s Elephant, but I think I prefer other treats more. The story has the usual feel of being classic, modern, European and American all at once. It has no real time frame of when it is set but has a very “today” feel to it. The whole book also has a combination of surreal and solid realism, too. […]

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10/15/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:386 |


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