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Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthoy Doerr

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Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr is an epic story.  My ARC copy was over 600 pages long.  Doerr, who won the Pulitzer Price for All The Light We Cannot See, has woven together the stories of five people in three different times, connected with a sixth story, the ancient Greek story of Cloud Cuckoo Land. In modern day Idaho we have Zeno,  an old man, orphaned at a young age, who was changed by his experience as a POW during the Korean War.   Along with […]

A love letter to learning

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

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I am on a journey to rediscover science. It’s one of those things that I found fascinating as a kid and deathly boring as a subject in school. A few months ago I picked up The Great Unknown by Marcus du Sautoy, a scientist whose job is to make scientific thought accessible to the public, and found the boredom, combined with the frustration at who du Sautoy featured prominently and who he didn’t (spoiler alert: it’s women and people of colour, they haven’t done a […]

A nice mellow read about decent people getting a happy ending

A Duke, the Lady, and a Baby by Vanessa Riley

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Do you love low stakes diverse regency romances? Then don’t even read this review. You will love this book. Plot: Patience, the daughter of a very powerful plantation owner (black run, no slavery), was swept off her feet by a British aristocrat with a money problem. Arriving in England, she was promptly sequestered in a country home and left to rot while her new husband ran up bills at various gambling establishments and the like. And then he died. Now, his nefarious uncle is trying […]

The Guns of August – Barbara Tuchman (1962)

The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman

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As Barbara Tuchman tells us in the intro, this book spawned from two previous books of hers: Bible and Sword (which I haven’t read) and The Zimmerman Telegram (which I have). She previously only wanted to focus on an even narrower focus, but her publisher, who essentially commissioned the book, really wanted a book about the battle of Mons. She decided that focusing on the various maneuvers in the two decades previous to the war, and then on the first month, August of 1914, she […]

Draw Draw, Draw Your Pen Manically Across the Page

River of Ink by Etiene Appert

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cbr13bingo  People I am not sure if what I read was the entire book of River of Ink by Etiene Appert or not as I found an online edition for booksellers via a newsletter I occasional get. It did feel complete, had a what felt like a solid ending; therefore, I am assuming, yes, I read all of Appert’s book. However, regardless of what I did read, I know I read enough to know two things: One: WHAT THE FLYING MONKEYS did I just read? […]



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