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Fiction offers the best means of understanding people different from oneself, short of experience.

Words are my Matter; No Time to Spare by Ursula K Le Guin

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Words are My Matter – 5/5 Stars This is a through and through very good nonfiction collection. The main focus of this collection are various speeches, book reviews, book introductions, and other assorted nonfiction from Ursula K Le Guin’s last sixteen years of life. I have to state here that for all the book of Le Guin I have read and reviewed, I don’t think I have every loved one. I liked several of them, and respected most of them, but love not so much. I came closest here. For one, she’s very honest and clear with her voice and […]

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7/20/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:276 |

Cece Loves Science Experiments

Cece Loves Science by Kimberly Derting and Shelli R. Johannes

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Cece Loves Science is the first picture book in a new series. Cece is a clever girl who asks questions. She loves science and she cannot wait to find out the answer to the question, “Do dogs eat vegetables?”  Cece and her best friend, Isaac, tackle this question for their school project. Using the steps of science (brainstorming, asking questions, experimenting, and more) the answer soon is clear. Or is it? Cece learns that sometimes your first answer is not the only one. Overall the book is a lovely book with a STEM theme. Yet, for this adult, it fell […]

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7/17/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:266 |

From Football field to the Art Gallery

Between the Lines: How Ernie Barnes Went from the Football field to the Art Gallery by Sandra Neil Wallace

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Who is Ernie Barnes? Some people might know him from the football field and some might know him from the art galleries. I know him from Between the Lines: How Ernie Barnes Went from the Football field to the Art Gallery by Sandra Neil Wallace (and illustrated by Bryan Collier). Barnes was a young boy growing up in North Carolina. Shy, not good with words and a love of art set him apart at an early age. However, he was unable to partake in the galleries of the time as they were White Only. Not a great student, finally he […]

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7/16/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:265 |

How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore and a Scotsman dropped in the middle of a forgotten spot in the Caribbean by providence impoverished in squalor, grow up to be a hero and a scholar?

Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow

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Despite never seeing the Tony Award winning musical I am unabashedly in love with the Hamilton soundtrack and while I plan to seek out Hamilton: The Revolution (as well as sell a kidney to see Hamilton when it comes to Dallas next year) I think Chernow’s Alexander Hamilton is a more expansive take on one of America’s founding fathers and I’m glad I started here. Lin-Manuel Miranda has made Hamilton a household name again after nearly two hundred years and Chernow’s biography played a big role in Miranda’s research. “Hamilton’s relatively short life robbed him not only of any chance for further accomplishment but of the opportunity to mold his […]

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7/13/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:78 |

The Revolution Was Documented

The Revolution Was Televised: The Cops, Crooks, Slingers and Slayers Who Changed TV Drama Forever by Alan Sepinwall

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Sometimes I read a non-fiction book and wonder to myself, what would this book look like if the author had waited just a few more years before analyzing the available evidence? In The Revolution Was Televised Sepinwall takes a critic’s eye to the changing landscape of television drama in the past two decades. He was absolutely in the right place to make the necessary observations and do the needed interviews with the creatives behind the shows he analyzes – Sepinwall started his career as a television critic for my now local paper, The Star-Ledger, during the years in question (he […]

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7/13/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:25 |

Baby Panda Chews Bamboo and steals your Heart

Baby Panda Chews Bamboo by Ben Richmond and Angelo Soto-Centeno

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While I give this a five rating it is more of a 4.5 rating. This is due to the fact that there are a lot of facts about panda, but I would have liked to have seen just a few more. The photographs are amazing and the real draw to the book. Baby Panda Chews Bamboo focuses on the baby panda without a lot of “heavy” facts but does not leave anything out. It even their status on the endangered list (which has improved over the years).  The book reads as fiction, though there is not a traditional story going […]

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7/13/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:261 |

Don’t wanna be shamed? Maybe just don’t be a dick…

So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson

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Once forming a big part of punishments, particularly before the 19th century, public shaming has come back with a bang since the rise of social media. In So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed, journalist Jon Ronson takes a look at some of the people who have become famous for being publicly shamed – people like Justine Sacco, the African Aids tweet woman; Lindsay Stone, who took a photo of herself flipping off a sign at Arlington Cemetery; and various men who’ve been caught in sex scandals – and looks at how the shaming has affected them. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it turns out […]

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7/10/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:52 |

Yes, this memoir is as good as everyone says.

Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah

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If you like audiobooks at all, I would suggest doing this by audio. I know I enjoyed it a lot more than I would have reading in another format because Trevor Noah narrates it himself, and his voices for everyone are very charming. There’s also something very satisfying about hearing someone tell stories about their life in their own voice. This book is made up of a series of interconnected stories about his youth in South Africa, from when he was “born a crime,” with a white father and black mother (something that was illegal during Apartheid), through his early […]

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7/9/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:81 |


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