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As Long as Grass Grows by Dina Gilio-Whitaker

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Disclaimer: I won a copy via a Librarything giveaway. I suppose I could just say that I was reading this on the way back from work and when I looked up, somehow, the trolley had gotten to one stop from mine without me knowing. It was that absorbing. Gilio-Whitaker makes what might have been a somewhat dull topic and engages the reader. But I suppose you want more than that. When I mentioned I was reading this book to my friend who teaches in the Urban Studies department and who has worked one various community environmental projects, he admitted he […]

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4/21/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:52 |

American Heiress

The Glitter and the Gold by Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan

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Consuelo Vanderbilt was born into American royalty before being sent away to England at nineteen to marry a British duke against her wishes. The Glitter and the Gold is her story written in her own words as an elderly woman in the 1950s but at times the language feels very modern. She references how easy today’s (1952) children have it and that she is from one of the last generations to be raised with such strictness. Her mother used to discipline her with a switch and she had to wear a painful metal contraption to practice perfect posture. Vanderbilt- Balsan was […]

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4/19/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:32 |

Like watching a documentary with your eyes closed

Harry Potter: A History of Magic by The British Library, JK Rowling

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I listened to the Natalie Dormer narrated audiobook of A History of Magic and it was both the perfect way to enjoy the expansive magical world as well as the most frustrating way. The British Library should really film this for an HBO or History Channel documentary series. Natalie Dormer was a fantastic narrator; her role was primarily as the host of the book who introduced sections read by contributors and interviewees. It was a fantastic way to delve into the wonderful world of Harry Potter again, as well as real world examples of Magic, but there were a lot of references […]

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4/19/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:30 |

Eve Gardiner is a BAMF

The Alice Network by Kate Quinn

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This book was so cool! A network of lady spies during WWI, and then a mission after WWII to find a woman that brings it all full circle. Romance, espionage, intrigue — this book would make one hell of a movie. The story is told from two perspectives. In 1915, Eve Gardiner finds herself recruited into a network of spies, where her young looks and persistent stammer allow her to pass as a nervous waitress in a restaurant full of Nazis. She keeps her eyes and ears open and her mouth shut as she gathers information and sends it back […]

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4/19/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:47 |

I bet Lydia Kang is a lot of fun at parties

A Beautiful Poison by Lydia Kang

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Lydia Kang wrote one of my favorite recent reads, Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything. So when a novel by her popped up in my Overdrive recommendations after I finished a nonfiction book on the Spanish flu, I immediately borrowed it. This woman knows a LOT about poisons, murders, and the Gilded Age. Also, she looks like this: And I totally want to be her friend. Anyway, A Beautiful Poison is set in new York during the Spanish flu, but rather than being about the flu, it’s more like another character kind of lurking in […]

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4/18/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:42 |

A Cup o’ Trivia for Dorks

A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage

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Last year I reviewed Bill Bryson’s delightfully dorky and cheeky At Home, calling it a treasure-trove of trivia. I love books that make you think Oh, that’s why it’s like that! This book is one of those books, and so I really enjoyed it. Whereas Bryson’s book focused on things like wallpaper glue and how dangerous stairs are, this book is all about how culture was shaped by humanity’s beverages of choice: beer, wine, liquor, coffee, tea, Coca-Cola, and water. (I don’t actually know which ones are the six in the title, but all are covered.) The books starts out with beer, […]

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4/18/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:13 |

The Hunt is On

The Huntress by Kate Quinn

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The author of the well reviewed The Alice Network is back with another big historical fiction.  The Huntress is a Nazi woman who most famous crime is shooting a group of children after feeding them a meal.  She has slipped though the many cracks around after WWII and disappeared.  The story is set during the war and a few years after in Boston. An odd trio of Nazi hunters are after The Huntress, hoping to find her in Boston.  Tony is a disillusioned American ex-GI.  Ian is a revenge seeking Brit whose brother was a victim  of The Huntress.  Finally, […]

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4/18/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:8 |

Oh moon, oh stars, You heal the languor of the souls and minds…

Seven Shakespeares, Volume 1 by Harold Sakuishi

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I downloaded this manga on a whim and it really paid off! Seven Shakespeares by Harold Sakuishi has a unique arc – depicting Shakespeare’s Lost Years between 1585 and 1592. As Sakuisi notes, in 1585, “We have a young man (with children) from a small village who had received no education sufficient to be a man of letters…and then we have the greatest poet of the age…” – so what happened? The prologue centers on the enactment of Hamlet and the political powers for and against the theater. From there, the story moves to Liverpool in 1587 and focuses on […]

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4/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:4 |


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