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Angsty, charming, good….and problematic?

Emergency Contact by Mary H.K. Choi

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CBR11 Bingo –  Cannonballer Says So, scootsa1000 reviewed this book two months ago, and she could’ve just said, “Hey, Rainbow Rowell says this is the best book she read last year.” That would’ve been enough to get me to read Emergency Contact. Instead, she went on to give a really good review of the book. I suggest reading it. Penny is a freshman in college, and I don’t think she’s ever looked forward to anything in her life as much as she has getting away from her mother, her high school, and her boyfriend. She’s a little odd, and definitely […]

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8/18/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:19 |

Key Elements of a Hate to Love Romance Missing

The Wedding Party by Jasmine Guillory

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So this pains me. I bought this today and ended up not really enjoying it. It was a fight to finish because in the end Maddie and Theo were not as intriguing as Alexa and Drew (The Wedding Date) and even Carlos and Nik (The Proposal). If you are going to do a hate to love romance you have to make me actually believe the two people don’t like each other. We are finally shown what happened when Maddie and Theo first met and yeah, Theo sucked, but after that there was nothing there. We should have been given more  […]

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8/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:193 |

“Plot, Character, Smut – you’ve got the whole package”

Stacked by Aviva Blakeman

Say My Name by Aviva Blakeman

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Y’all!!!! Firstly – I’m here! It’s been a very intense couple of years for me. This is my first review in a while and I declare complete review bankruptcy on anything I read during that time. No obligations, no guilt, no shame. (This review fills in the “And So It Begins” CBR11 Bingo Square) Secondly – y’all. Y’all? Y’all.  Sometimes a friend or acquaintance writes a book and I read it and it’s… well it’s bad! Sometimes it’s mediocre, sometimes it’s serviceable but not great, sometimes it’s so rough that I stop reading and just never speak of it again. […]

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8/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:2 |

A Tom Robbins-esque Interstellar Freak-out

Reincarnation Blues by Michael Poore

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This is the story of a man named Milo. Well, frequently a man, but sometimes a woman, a rabbit, a tree, a fish, a bug- any number of things. Sometimes he’s on earth: the Midwest, Japan, Africa, a top-secret lab in the great plains- and sometimes he’s in space. He’s always in love, but usually in love with Death. Not dying- just one of the many personifications of Death. She’s usually a woman named Suzy, but sometimes she’s a witch, or a candle maker, or the wind itself. Milo and Suzy are tangled up in the kinds of knots that […]

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8/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:8 |

“Nowhere in the world are there to be found people richer than the Chinese.” ~ IBN BATUTA (FOURTEENTH CENTURY)

Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan

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CBR11 Bingo: Travel Like most people I fell head over heels in love with the rich world director Jon M Chu created with last year’s Crazy Rich Asians but I hadn’t gotten around to reading the novel it was based on. In a way I am glad I saw the movie first because it pales in comparison to the source materiel and I would have probably been disappointed. Whenever I read the book after watching the movie I find it a lot easier to enjoy both mediums (which makes the decision to read the sequel, China Rich Girlfriend, a difficult […]

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8/14/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:79 |

CBR11Bingo: Not My Wheelhouse (The Good Luck Girls of Shipwreck Lane) + Two More

The Good Luck Girls of Shipwreck Lane by Kelly Harms

The Overdue Life of Amy Byler by Kelly Harms

Matchmaking for Beginners by Maddie Dawson

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The Good Luck Girls of Shipwreck Lane is definitely not the kind of book I normally read (Not My Wheelhouse!), despite the fact that, like SisterCoyote “I’m very much a book magpie” (love that!). The Good Luck Girls of Shipwreck Lane looks like something your mom would read at the beach. And while I have nothing against your mom, a story about two girls who win a contest that changes their lives forever and takes place somewhere called Christmas Cove, Maine would not normally be my thing. BUT I picked it up after reading Kelly Harms’s The Overdue Life of […]

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8/14/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:111 |

“Heroism’s just doing more than you want to do or think you can.” (CBR11 Bingo)

Northern Lights by Nora Roberts

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I’m glad this Bingo Square is Summer Read, not Beach Read because I have a very peculiar definition of what I read at the beach and it is not vacation “light reading”! Northern Lights might not count for some (there are a few murders and a male protagonist fighting through depression) but a Nora Roberts romance will always be a Summer Read for me. I’ve read Northern Lights before, but its been a long time. In Northern Lights we follow Nate Burke as he moves from Baltimore Maryland to Lunacy Alaska to take the newly founded job as the Chief […]

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8/13/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:36 |

In the summertime when the weather is hot

Summer by the Sea by Susan Wiggs

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Rosa Capoletti is a born and raised coastal New Englander, running a high-end Italian restaurant on the beach.  Her childhood friend and first boyfriend, Alex Montgomery, is back in town to clean up his family’s summer home after his mother passes away.  When Alex happens into Rosa’s restaurant for dinner, sparks fly! Will they rekindle the passion that has been simmering since Alex ghosted Rosa 10 years ago? Will Rosa’s father ever forgive Alex for breaking his daughter’s heart?  How did Alex’s mother’s really die? Can these two kids from opposite sides of the tracks ever find true love? Read […]

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8/13/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:36 |


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