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Not something I might have chosen myself, but really enjoyed! #FarAndAway

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

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I picked this one up for a book club a few months ago. I really do not often read literary fiction, but I wanted to give this one a try. And lo and behold–I loved it! I ended up only finishing half before the book club meeting and got all sorts of spoilers, but to be honest, this book isn’t read for the plot. Knowing what’s going to happen does not ruin it at all (and I usually hate spoilers). This is a book that one reads for the journey, not the destination. As Soviet Russia sometimes feels about as […]

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9/14/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:5 |

“It has been said that a specialist is a barbarian whose ignorance is not well-rounded.”

His Master's Voice by Stanislaw Lem

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When a neutrino beam with a possible message from an advanced civilization is discovered, scientists from many different fields try to decode the letter from the stars. Impeded by political and military interests, and limited by their own narrow-mindedness and hubris, they struggle to make sense of the transmission and to gain any useful knowledge from it. This is a deeply philosophical book, and Lem’s reasoning is absolutely sound. Since it is told from the viewpoint of one of the leading scientists, a mathematician, it is also often dry and technical, even unwieldy, although, on the other hand, there are […]

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9/14/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:48 |

Something Rotten

The Criminal by Jim Thompson

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Jim Thompson is a crime writer with a knack for peering into the blackness of the human soul and not flinching in describing it to the reader. He’s probably best known as the writer of The Grifters, which was turned into a movie starring John Cusack and Anjelica Huston. There the focus was on con artists, criminals who rely on their cunning and their wits to stay ahead of the law. On the surface, The Criminal couldn’t be more different: the title character is a fifteen year-old boy named Bob Talbert who is easily confused and not very bright. The […]

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9/14/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:33 |

These hoes ain’t loyal (banned books, bingo)

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

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Um. No. I’m champagne taste on a beer budget incarnate, but it’s never led me to cheat on and bankrupt an adoring spouse. I am bougie as hell in some ways but I’m not about to let my kid go without so I can have luxury. I may have debt but I’m not about to turn a blind eye to it by paying off credit with more credit. I love a good fantasy but I know where reality’s hard border is. Fuuuuuuck you, Emma Bovary. I get why this was banned, even if it’s hilariously tame to the modern reader. […]

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9/13/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:72 |

It’s not them, it’s me

The Right Swipe by Alisha Rai

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I just don’t like romance novels and that’s the long and short of it. Secondhand embarrassment and awkwardness makes me cringe so hard I turtle right into my t-shirt and these kind of horrifying miscommunications are a feature, not a bug, when it comes to romance novels. It’s the “wait, no, I mean, if you just, c’mon, PLEASE” that makes me want to die. Granted, I haven’t read many romance novels, but between Alisha Rai and Helen Hoang, this kind of scenario seems to be their life’s blood and I cannot handle it. To her credit, Rai (much like Hoang) […]

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9/13/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:83 |

But her exterior wasn’t the issue.

A Fatal Grace by Louise Penny

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It’s always interesting to see where the second book of a new detective series is going to take us. The Tana French novels upend the first book by essentially retiring the previous detective and handing the series off like a baton. In others like Poirot, it’s more episodic with the detective embarking just another case. And in others still, it’s the next day practically like the Tess Monaghan books more or less do. Here it’s a little of both, at least so far, with Armand Gamache returning to the scene of the first book, Three Pines, Quebec for further adventures. […]

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9/13/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:515 |

Crime, Boy I Don’t Know

The Galton Case by Ross Macdonald

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CBR11Bingo: I Love This (Not this book specifically, but post-war California noir in general.) For a while I thought The Galton Case might be the realization of my Ideal Novel. I suppose it terribly “male” of me, but there’s nothing I like reading about more than a tough-guy private detective dealing with a rich family full of dark secrets, driving around California and occasionally getting knocked out by street-wise gangsters. Raymond Chandler is the most well-known practitioner of the form, but for my money Ross Macdonald’s Lew Archer series is every bit as good, with the added bonus that Macdonald […]

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9/12/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:32 |

What did Marmee’s husband do during the war?

March by Geraldine Brooks

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Cbr11bingo Birthday. Geraldine Brooks was born September 14, 1955. Bingo #9 Geraldine Brooks’ 2006 novel March is a brilliant Civil War novel that imagines the lives of Marmee and Mr. March, the parents of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women. Brooks, a journalist by trade, has a history of writing thoroughly researched and highly imaginative fiction. I’ve read most of her novels and they have all been superb. Year of Wonders, Caleb’s Crossing and People of the Book are all fantastic. I know I read March not too long after it came out, but I honestly couldn’t remember much about it […]

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9/12/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:49 |


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