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Beautiful and Tragic

Exit West by Mohsin Hamid

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I chose to read this book because I saw it on the to-read list of a baseball player I really like, Sean Doolittle.  Doolittle is a very good player and someone who is known for being an even better person.  He is also considered one of the most, let’s say intellectual, players in baseball and maybe sports as a whole.  He attended the University of Virginia, in my home state, so I’ve always felt an affinity for Doolittle.  He posted a picture of his current to-do list and baseball analyst Keith Law, another favorite of mine, and Law tweeted that […]

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4/17/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:15 |

Too safe?

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu

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I can’t remember why I wanted to read Charles Yu, but I must have had a reason. After finishing up the Old Man’s War books, I had a “not-so-serious-science-fiction” itch to scratch and picked up this one as the best looking of the author’s works at Barnes and Noble. I don’t know if this book just wasn’t my cup of tea in general or if it just didn’t satisfy my craving for John Scalzi’s brand of “take a trope through to its logical conclusion” sci-fi, but this book left me cold. I think part of it might be a complete […]

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4/11/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:25 |

The John Masterson Trilogy or A Prepper’s Dream

One Second After by William R. Forstchen

One Year After by William R. Forstchen

The Final Day by William R. Forstchen

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TL:DR **I enjoyed the series but I cannot separate it from the virtue-signaling inherent in the narrative.** I have many thoughts about this series, as a whole and individually.  First, I read this because two different friends just read it and loved it.  While both friends are in the military, once is left leaning and the other leans right.  That is an important part of this because I was very turned off by the front over which told me that the introduction was written by New Gingrich, who coincidently was a MAJOR figure in the last book I read, chronologically. […]

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4/11/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:14 |

Once upon a time I didn’t think I could write short stories.

How Long Til Black Future Month? by NK Jemisin

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I was a little leery of this one for two distinct reasons. One, when an author tells us in the first pages that they don’t like or know how to write short stories…uh oh. And two, I might be one of the few people who didn’t particularly enjoy The Broken Earth (first) book(s). I might go back to them now, because I did enjoy this one. I was worried of getting my time wasted with what I misperceived as a possible dilettante attitude about short stories, and because I have read story collections by people who should not have been […]

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4/10/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:183 |

Am I cooling on Scalzi?

The Consuming Fire: Vol. 2 of The Interdependency duology by John Scalzi

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I have long been a Scalzi fan and am always eager for his next book.  Fortunately, he is the type of author that is able to churn out books on a regular basis which has fed my appetite for some time now.  The Consuming Fire is the sequel to The Collapsing Empire (which I really enjoyed and reviewed last year!), together they are The Interdependency duology.   However, I stalled on this book.  Scalzi’s books tends to be easy reads that can be quickly ripped through, this book is no exception, but it took me several weeks to finish. With […]

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4/10/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:12 |

Don’t leave me hanging

York: The Shadow Cipher by Laura Ruby

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3.5 stars. This probably would have been 4 stars for me if it had come to a somewhat satisfying conclusion instead of a brutal cliffhanger. It’s a major pet peeve of mine when authors don’t make books in series, especially the first in a series, have a bit of closure so you feel like you’ve read something that feels halfway complete. It’s ok to make your readers want more, I just really hate feeling like I have to go on to the next book to find out any resolution rather than just wanting to spend more time in the world. […]

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4/9/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:30 |

How Not To Colonize A Planet

Proxima by Stephen Baxter

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If you ever wanted to know how humanity should not go about spreading away from Earth and colonizing the universe than oooo boy does Stephen Baxter have an example for you in his 2012 book, Proxima. In a nutshell: don’t do it until we’re a united planet. Otherwise, we’re just gonna space race our asses all over the universe and probably screw over everyone involved, from the remaining earthlings, to the residents of Sol planets, and to the newbie colonizers of distant planets in far away systems. Proxima introduces us to the galaxy in the 23rd century, via Yuri Eden, […]

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4/7/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:6 |

To live there was a badge of inferiority.

Catseye by Andre Norton

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I read this novel right after a novel about a mother dealing with the suicide death of her teenage son, and well, I think I needed this one. So this is an early 1960s science fiction novel by the pseudonymous writer Andre Norton, who I can’t say I know a lot about, and it is NOT the Margaret Atwood novel. We find ourselves on an Earthlike planet, a colony that is also the temporary housing ground of a refugee people who though given safe passage and a place to live are treated as second class citizens. We follow young Troy […]

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4/7/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:174 |


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