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A mystery, a thriller, and two collections

The Sentence is Death (Hawthorne #2) by Anthony Horowitz

I'll Never Tell by Catherine McKenzie

Full Throttle by Joe Hill

Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory by Raphael Bob-Waksberg

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(4 stars) The Sentence is Death (Hawthorne #2) by Anthony Horowitz I really like Anthony Horowitz. His mystery novels are such incredible homages to the larger concept of A Mystery Novel. He manages to poke fun at the genre while simultaneously improving it with his writing. The Sentence is Death, his second novel in a series about a curmudgeonly ex-police officer named Hawthorne, was fantastic. Once again, a fictional version of Horowitz (Anthony) acts as the main character and narrator, and the entire novel is deliciously meta. In this novel, Hawthorne shows up at Anthony’s door after a celebrity divorce […]

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10/14/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:204 |

Just Pictures of Cute Animals That Will Make You Feel Better

This Book Is Literally Just Pictures of Cute Animals That Will Make You Feel Better by Smith Street Books

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I admit, I am somewhat questioning myself by counting This Book Is Literally Just Pictures of Cute Animals That Will Make You Feel Better towards a book I have read. Because, as the title says, it is only photographs of cute animals. Smith Street Books created a counter book for someone who needs a quick item for someone. However, we all do need this book. It is a great “get well” gift or “having a bad week” gift, even a “housewarming/hostess” gift. It could be for the child who loves animals (though it is done in the traditional hardcover and paper […]

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10/14/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:427 |

WHAT THE FRANKENSTEIN (only I did not say Frankenstein) is going on?

Blackbird, Volume 1 by Sam Humphries

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My weekend started normal: a late wake up, couple loads of laundry, off to a fund raiser for Special Olympics (which I did not know about until I get a text from my sister sending me my nephews very awesome Joker inspired pumpkin) and some reading. Mostly my reading was graphic novels and each of them became an experience that is hard to put into words. I will say, they all took me on an emotional roller coaster ride. Blackbird, Volume 1 has several traditional graphic novel/comic staples. Therefore, if you are not a fan of the “comic book style” […]

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10/14/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:425 |

This day, after I was redie, I did eate my breakfast.

History, A Mess by Sigrun Palsdottir

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We begin with our narrator reading through a 17th century diary of a British artist, making a curious and potentially groundbreaking discovery that the famous, male author, might in fact be a woman. This provides a standout clue that helps to finish off the narrator’s dissertation in art history. I seem to keep reading books like this this year, and so far, only Possession by AS Byatt, has been very good (it’s great), while others like Chatterton by Peter Ackroyd and The Thirst by Jo Nesbo, have been middling. This book is good in some ways and middling in others. What I actually think […]

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10/14/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:568 |

The baby boy was lovely from the start.

Jacob's Ladder by Ludmila Ulitskaya

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This is a newish (written in Russian in 2015, but translated to English in 2019) long novel (550 pages) by the novelist Ludmila Ulitskaya, made probably most famous with her previous long novel, The Big Green Tent. That novel was about the various exiles and resistance movements to the Soviet government, focusing mainly on stories related to samzdat, the smuggling of illegal texts like Nabokov’s Invitation to a Beheading, Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago, and Bulgakov’s The Master and the Margarita. This novel is similar in a lot of ways, and different in some significant ways. In short, this is the story of multiple generations […]

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10/14/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:566 |

I will live, thought Saul Laski.

Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons

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This is a behemoth of a horror novel by Dan Simmons, enjoying a little renaissance right now as the creator of The Terror and he’s a bit of a genre-jumping writer working in horror, science fiction, historical fiction (usually with a twist), and mystery. This novel starts in a concentration camp during WWII when we meet Saul Lasky, a Polish Jew, confronting his greatest terror, a Nazi commandant her refers to as The Oberst. We then jump shockingly and jarringly into the first person narration of a southern woman from Georgia some 35 years later telling us about her long friendship […]

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10/14/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:565 |

There was nothing else to notice.

A Separate Peace by John Knowles

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This is one of the last of my boogeyman books from high school — those books you were supposed to read and didn’t. I didn’t read this one because I didn’t like my English teacher and thought the opening of this book was boring. And it kind of is. Like a lot of books about “school” there’s so much reflecting back on experience, that what makes them interesting is the remove you have from school to look back. YA novels work so well because we are locked into a familiar perspective and the story is told from within that space. […]

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10/14/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:563 |

So this is how it feels to take a man’s life.

Supermarket by Bobby Hall

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I am going to have some positive things to say about this novel. But it should be clear, this is not a “good” book at all. The plot is predictable in a lot of ways, and the writing is sometimes very very bad. Sometimes it’s fine. It’s one of those books we give credit to for being a)logically plotted and cohesive and b) better than it has any right to be. I don’t know who Logic is, or rather didn’t and hadn’t every heard of him until I picked up this novel. I picked it up because it showed up […]

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10/14/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:562 |


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