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My question is, why is this a kid’s book?

The Berenstain Bears: We Love Soccer! by Mike Berenstain

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The Berenstain Bears: We Love Soccer! is a takeoff of the original Berenstain Bears series. Some of us grew up on the 8×8 paperbacks, some of us had early readers, some of us watched the television series and some a combination. Mike Berenstain has created another set of books that take off from the originals with new and old favorite characters. He now covers themes that are a bit more modern then just “new baby” or “jealous” or “eating too much junk food” or “the gimmies.” They have also slightly gone away from the obvious Christian story lines. The story […]

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9/5/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:333 |

Italian Football (Soccer/Calcio): Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction

Winning at All Costs: A Scandalous History of Italian Soccer by John Foot

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Read for Cannonball Read Bingo: place I want to visit. It’s tough to know where to begin describing this book because it is a wild 528-page ride. John Foot is a competent writer and a quality historian but he’s been tasked with a subject that’s overwhelming: the story of soccer in Italy. Foot does a great job at covering the history of Italy as a backdrop to its nation’s favorite sport and I learned a lot. I had no idea how young of a nation Italy is and how its still fractured by regional loyalties. Large swathes of people didn’t […]

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8/14/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:6 |

The Ghosts of Anti-Semitism Haunt Holland Through Soccer

Ajax, The Dutch, The War by Simon Kuper

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Read for Cannonball Run Bingo. Category: White Whale. The World Cup was on this past summer and anytime I see it, I’m inclined to read more books about soccer. I’m a big sports fan but my interest in soccer really only begun about 12 years ago when, bored out of my mind for the summer of 2006, I watched the World Cup fastidiously. Soccer is now perhaps my fourth favorite sport after baseball, football, and basketball and I’m wearing a New York City FC shirt in anticipation of the game tonight. I’m also a history junkie, particularly World War II. […]

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8/4/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:2 |

“In most cases learning something essential in life requires physical pain.”

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami

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Since it’s my Year of Murakami, I’m reading both the man’s fiction and his non-fiction. A decade or so ago, Murakami wrote a book about running. Unbeknownst to me, when not listening to jazz records or drinking whisky or thinking about women just out of reach, the author runs marathons. In fact, he runs one a year or so, and also likes triathlons. This book isn’t really a how-to or a straight memoir so much as a man recording his wandering thoughts. For a fan like me, it’s perfect. As “The Plain Dealer” quote on the cover says, the book […]

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7/23/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:49 |

Neymar: A Soccer Dream Come True

Neymar: A Soccer Dream Come True by Mina Javaherbin

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Born in Brazil, Neymar da Silva Santos Joenior grew up imagining what it would be like to be a soccer player. As many kids who are fans of a sport, he would become the announcer, star and every player on the team as he played in his grandfather’s house. And like many kids he has the dream of making it big someday. Unlike many, however, he did make his dream come true. More of a 4.5 as I would have liked to have seen more biographical information (at the end) but this story told as the author feels things would […]

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6/4/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:187 |

Chad, you magnificent son of a bitch

The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach

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My question to the bookseller when I saw this remaindered was “is this about baseball? Because I don’t care about baseball.” I’ve tried, my dad was a longtime Tigers fan (don’t worry, he’s fine, I used the past tense because all Detroit fans see reason eventually) and I’ve been a good sport and attended many a ball game in my day.  I never saw the point until I reached drinking age, and then realized the quantity of beer required to make a bunch of guys standing around in a field would send me into liver failure even if I attended […]

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5/27/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:33 |

That’s Better!

Game Play by Lynda Aicher

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After being disappointed by the hockey-themed romance Slammed by Victoria Denault, fellow Cannonballer, Emmalita, had some recommendations for me to check out! And this novel Game Play (first in a series called “Power Play” by Lynda Aicher) was definitely an improvement, and I liked the relationship in this one a lot more. But I was still very frustrated by a lot of aspects: the lack of communicating their feelings clearly and talking about things! Is this a common romance trope? Just talk to one another! (I say this as I am the worst for hiding how I’m feeling at times…) […]

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5/16/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:22 |

Hockey? Good! Romance? Good! This Novel? Mmmm, Not For Me

Slammed by Victoria Denault

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A part of the “San Francisco Thunder” series by Victoria Denault, I admit I picked this one up because the title made me chuckle. I’m not usually one to read novels in this kind of romance genre (even though I’m a total romantic sap, so it’s surprising that I haven’t delved into this much before!) so the problem with my doing a review is that I don’t per say have a baseline for what to expect or what is good and/or different in the genre. That said, how very Canadian of me that a hockey-themed romance draws me in… and […]

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5/10/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:21 |


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