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“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 |

Welcome to the modern world

Oklahoma City: What the Investigation Missed--and Why It Still Matters by Andrew Gumbel & Roger G Charles

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I was in the sixth grade when the Alfred P Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was bombed. I was a little too young to be fully aware of Waco, Ruby Ridge, or the first World Trade Center attack, and, as an army brat, while the first Gulf War affected my family personally, I only really saw it as something that might take my father from me. So the 1995 terrorist attack was the first real event that captured my interest – and not least because I grew up in Oklahoma. But the intervening 23 years has left this event […]

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12/15/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:44 |

“I can never remember things I didn’t understand in the first place.”

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

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I think I remember reading The Joy Luck Club (1989) by Amy Tan when I was a kid. My mother must have bought it, and I picked it up because I would read anything and everything I could get my hands on–even when I was too young to really understand it. So when I saw it on my list of 50 Books Every Woman Should Read Before She Turns 40, I wasn’t sure I needed to read it again. In the end, I figured it was worth the reread since I didn’t remember anything about it. The Joy Luck Club tells the story of […]

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12/13/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:58 |

Episode 1-45: Backstabber, Hope Grabber, Greedy Little Fit Haver

The Devil's Colony, The Fortune of War, Bill the Galactic Hero and the Planet of the Robot Slaves, The Witch Elm by Bill Schweigart, Patrick O'Brian, Harry Harrison, Tana French

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Episode 1-45: Backstabber, Hope Grabber, Greedy Little Fit Haver Wherein I review: 171. The Devil’s Colony (Fatal Folklore Trilogy #3) by Bill Schweigart 172. The Fortune of War (Aubrey & Maturin #6) by Patrick O’Brian 173. Bill, the Galactic Hero and The Planet of the Robot Slaves (Bill the Galactic Hero #2) by Harry Harrison 174. The Witch Elm by Tana French Anyone in America right now can tell you what’s scarier than monsters out of myth is actually creepy ass Nazis.  Speaking of America, that’s where the action moves in the Aubrey & Maturin series.  Harry Harrison gets all kinds […]

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12/12/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:174 |

YAY TO MY FRIEND BETH KANELL! (Yes, little name dropping there!)

The Long Shadow by Beth Kanell

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First: YAY TO MY FRIEND BETH KANELL! She has created another novel for history and Vermont buffs. Long story how I meet her, but she and I have talked books, poetry and life in general and I cannot wait to talk The Long Shadow with her as well. Second: The Long Shadow is set in North Upton, Vermont in 1850. She deals with abolition, bounty hunters and hiding fugitives of the escaped slave kind. Her narrator, Alice, is a young teen girl, growing up in a family of brothers in a small Vermont town. Her best friend lives next door […]

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12/12/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:451 |

Lately my diet has become a trifle monotonous

A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

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A Room of One’s Own (1929) by Virginia Woolf is a short, classic, feminist treatise, and it was on my list of 50 Books Every Woman Should Read Before She Turns 40. I know very little about Virginia Woolf. I vaguely remember having to read Mrs. Dalloway in school, but I think I was too young to really appreciate it. I never even saw The Hours with Nicole Kidman. So, I wasn’t really sure what to expect when I began reading this book. A Room of One’s Own is an extended essay based on two speeches that Woolf gave at women’s colleges at the University of Cambridge. […]

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12/10/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:57 |

Russian Poetry, Heartbreak and Politics

The Bedbug and Selected Poetry by Vladimir Mayakovsky

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As the title claims this is a collection of poetry alongside a play by Mayakovsky called the Bedbug, Mayakovsky has written my favourite poem of all time and this collection of his poetry is superb. It is collated chronologically and his poems start out long and beautiful, but towards the end they become staccato-ish and short of breath and he battles more and more. The subjects are bleeding in love or stern and severe. The last poems also tend to be very political and thus harder to connect with, moving away from the personal and into something akin to a […]

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12/3/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:47 |

Don’t try to make me grow up before my time

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

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Little Women (1869) by Louisa May Alcott is another one of those books that I’m not sure how I missed reading in my childhood. I read so much, and Little Women is such a classic that I’m surprised I did not get around to it at some point. So, I finally picked it up for the first time because it was on my list of 50 Books Every Woman Should Read Before She Turns 40. Now, before reading the novel, all of my knowledge of this story came from the 1994 movie adaptation with Winona Ryder, Susan Sarandon, and Christian Bale. I remember being […]

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12/1/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:54 |


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