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Laugh so Loud at the Coffee Shop that the Guy Next in Line Spills His Drink (CBR11 Bingo: The Collection)

Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory by Raphael Bob-Waksberg

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The bizarre come home to roost in Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory. Fleeting daydreams turn into years long stunted relationships, science goes too far into US history, dogs navigate the meaning of “good” and “bad”, entire stories are told in the span of half-sentences, and a Minions watch holds new and aching power. The wordplay, absurdity, and bone-deep ennui of Bob-Waksberg’s previous creation, Bojack Horseman, are ever present and ready to build you up and tear you back down to the ground. Some of those sensibilities make themselves known before even opening the book, as Bob-Waksberg solicited […]

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8/18/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:11 |

CBR11Bingo: Award Winner (and 2 others)

Vox by Christina Dalcher

Dry by Neal Shusterman, Jarrod Shusterman

The Dispatcher by John Scalzi, Zachary Quinto (Narrator)

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I’ve grouped 3 reviews here — all are “in the not so distant future, the world will be even shittier than it is now” stories. John Scalzi’s The Dispatcher won an Audie for Zachary Quinto’s narration, so that’s my “Award Winner!” Square. Vox by Christina Dalcher I don’t normally read books that have a less than 3.8 rating on Goodreads. That seems to be about my threshold for enjoying something. Vox has about a 3.6, but it was highly recommended on THIS site so I gave it a shot — and I’m glad I did. I love that Cannonball Read […]

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  • Vox by Christina Dalcher
  • Dry by Neal Shusterman, Jarrod Shusterman
  • The Dispatcher by John Scalzi, Zachary Quinto (Narrator)

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8/14/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:104 |

Just because it’s true doesn’t make it a good story.

To Cut a Long Story Short by Jeffrey Archer

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This is a collection of 14 short stories with most of them based on true incidents, some observed by the author himself, some told to him by others. They range from a married woman being seduced by a con artist, to a South African having a change of heart regarding his racist views, to a man funding his talentless brother’s life as an artist. At first glance, the stories seemed to be rather diverse in their range of topics and characters, but the further I got in the book the more did the stories and the approach to storytelling give […]

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8/13/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:39 |

You recognized her?

The Underdog and Other Stories by Agatha Christie

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This is a collection of Hercule Poirot stories from 1951 (in the US publication). These are mostly perfectly good stories and of course Poirot is charming as ever. What is mostly clear throughout all of these stories is that Poirot does not lend himself well to stories in general, when compared to the novels. I think this is mostly because he’s not always the center of the novels. His presence is secretive and understated a lot of the time, and then he moves in in swift succession and works the case. It’s hard to have a story that does that. […]

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8/5/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:442 |

Ain’t no sunshine (The Collection)

Strange Weather by Joe Hill

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Try and contain your shock, but a book by Joe Hill is dark. I’m used to the horror author writing books that have a macabre bent, but this was less “skeleton and ghost dark” and more “I’m gonna curl up on the couch and remind myself that this is fiction dark.” The collection is four novellas connected loosely by abnormal weather – lightning storms in “Snapshot,” a firestorm in “Loaded,” an unusual cloud in “Aloft” and fulgurite rain in “Rain.” But the darkest part of each of the stories is the people, not the supernatural elements.  “Snapshot,” “Aloft,” and “Rain” were […]

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7/29/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:57 |

Sleepy short stories

In the Teeth of the Evidence by Dorothy L. Sayers

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In the Teeth of the Evidence is a collection of Dorothy L. Sayers’ short mystery/ detective stories, a number of which feature her best known detectives, Lord Peter Wimsey and Montague Egg, and the rest of which are stand alone tales.  I took a Detective Fiction class way back in college, so I had some name recognition for Sayers, but I couldn’t have told you much about her work.  This novel brought some of that information back to me- Wimsey and Egg are detectives from the Miss Marple-era of detective novels, where genteel citizen crime-solvers take us through a mystery, […]

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7/24/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:26 |

A poetess who had died young of cancer had said in one of her poems that for her, on sleepless nights, ‘the night offers toads and black dogs and corpses of the drowned.

House of the Sleeping Beauties by Yasunari Kawabata

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This is a short collection of stories by the Nobel Prize winning Japanese author Yasunari Kawabata who I have previously read and reviewed his novel The Master of Go and another collection of stories. These stories are curious, and a little forgettable, and maybe that’s in part because the opening novella is both disturbing and unsatisfying. It will ultimately probably not stand the test of time because the ideas explored in it are both a little played out, but also gauche in their presentation. An older man goes to a kind of brothel, but rather sex, it is a place […]

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7/20/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:422 |

In a Galaxy Far Far Away

Burning Chrome by William Gibson

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William Gibson’s Burning Chrome is a collection of 12 science fiction short stories that were written in the late 70s and early 80s and have been published together.  I would almost certainly never have picked up this book on my own- it joined my book collection after being abandoned by an old roommate, who had herself picked it for a college Science Fiction Literature class (which hints at how long this book has been knocking around my apartment).  Despite this not being my usual jam, I really enjoyed several of these short stories.  “Johnny Mnemonic” is the only one that […]

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7/19/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:24 |


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