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When Uncle Stevie tells us that a book is scary, we should most definitely listen. #CBR10Bingo

The Hunger by Alma Katsu

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I’ve been away on vacation (or a series of vacations) for a little over a month, and have a large stack of books to review. But this one had to be first. The quiet horror of it will last with me for a long time. I first heard about The Hunger from Stephen King, who tweeted about it in March: THE HUNGER, by Alma Katsu: Deeply, deeply disturbing, hard to put down, not recommended reading after dark. Of course, that shot it up to the top of my TBR list. I bought it immediately. But didn’t sit down to read […]

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8/19/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:31 |

Who Else Would Be Canny Enough to Try and Do Their World-Building Backwards?

Revenant Gun (Machineries of Empire III) by Yoon Ha Lee

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  Once again, I am going to try (perhaps unwisely) to review a book without reviewing its predecessors in the series! So be warned, I haven’t been able to do this without touching on some spoilers for earlier books. I guess this is what you get by making ´This Is The End’ a bingo square.   As far as authors go, Yoon Ha Lee can be a bit of a cruel master. The way he treats his readers throughout the earlier books in his Machineries of Empire series reminds me of one those bare-bones swimming instructors. You know, one of […]

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8/19/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:24 |

Maybe read this during the day…

Come Closer by Sara Gran

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This is a sinister story that you can read in just a few hours. It’s about Amanda, who is happily married with a great job as an architect. As strange things begin happening to her, she can’t quite figure out if it’s her, or something else. Like the tapping she constantly hears at home (it’s the pipes), or the strange incident at work (must have been a practical joke). But as things get more sinister, Amanda finds herself consulting a book on demon possession she’s sure was sent to her by mistake. And each time she consults the checklist of […]

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8/18/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:7 |

“The Power of Words […] They Hooked into Invididuals and Wormed Through Generations.”

The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin

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I am but one of a number of Cannonballers who have read The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin so far this year! And for the most part I enjoyed it, as I know some others did. Though I think the front half really got me more so than the latter half, which is not to say that things don’t all come together and create a beautiful story, but I think it really boils down to feeling more of a connection with some of the characters whose points of view are focused on earlier on. The Immortalists tells the story of four […]

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8/17/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:42 |

Like reading the show

M*A*S*H: A Novel About Three Doctors by Richard Hooker

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Despite being born after the finale aired, I grew up on M*A*S*H. My parents bought each season on DVD as it was released and I’ve watched each episode at least three times. Maybe it doesn’t hold up quite so well watching it again as an adult (remember that episode where the guys in the Swamp convince a senior officer Hotlips is into him and he sexually assaults her … for laughs? Yeah.) But reading this book brought me right back to it all. The show (and movie! Oh man, first R-rated film I saw, thanks Dad!) is so rich, and so […]

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8/17/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:95 |

Funny she fixes feminine problems now, when she was my problem then.

Heads of the Colored People by Nafissa Thompson-Spires

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CBR10Bingo – Covers Here’s the covers I found:   Anyway, I misunderstood the title of the book every single time I read it until the audiobook narrator said it for me. I was eyeing this one for awhile and I am a little leery of story collections because so many times they are treated as a means to an end, and so you either get the same story told a bunch of different times or you get stuff that’s very typical of the market. The first story corrected my error quickly. I recently saw Sorry to Bother You and going […]

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8/17/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:318 |

I have lived ten years of wild rovings, of conquests and discoveries, in those woods; the day when I have to leave them my heart will be very heavy.

The Complete Claudine: Claudine at School, Claudine in Paris, Claudine Married, Claudine and Annie by Colette

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CBR10Bingo – This Old Thing? for Claudine at School CBR10Bingo – Dream Vacation for Claudine in Paris Claudine in School Book 1! from 1904 Man, French people are way more cool about sex than Americans are. This is not a surprise as most countries are way more cool about sex than Americans are. But this is a book that doesn’t just imply sex between characters, but heavily suggests it. And there’s very clearly sexual attraction and playfulness between school-age girls, and this book was widely popular. So, this is a book from 1904 and collects the fictionalized (or more so […]

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8/17/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:317 |

Read out of order, stood on its own

Ms. Marvel Vol. 4: Last Days by G. Willow Wilson

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When I picked this up to read I was confident I had read Ms. Marvel Vol. 3.  Oops, I was wrong about that, darn fickle memory.  Even though I was missing 4 issues of backstory, this collection was self contained and gave enough information through dialog that I got on just fine.  Kamala Khan as Ms. Marvel continues to be my other new favorite superhero (right alongside Squirrel Girl).  While other supers are associated with more glamorous cities, Ms. Marvel is the protector of Jersey City.  She is there, watching over her home, when resources are rushed to New York […]

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8/17/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:30 |


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