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The least toxically masculine thing you will ever read.

Check, Please!: #Hockey, Vol. 1 by Ngozi Ukazu

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So if you go over to Goodreads and scroll down the first page of reviews, you’ll see that nearly every review starts along the lines of, “THIS WAS SO ADORABLE.” Or “THE CUTEST EVER I’M DYING.” And now that I have read this, I too, can sympathize. This was monstrously precious. I am compelled to say this because of how cute. Check, Please! is a sweet little web comic that is finishing up later this year. It follows Eric “Bitty” Bittle, a former champion figure skater turned college hockey player, as he goes through his four years at Samwell University. […]

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1/11/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:8 |

Perhaps You Can Teach an Old Dog New Tricks

The Complete Soccer Goalkeeper: Techniques & Tactics for Stopping Every Shot by Tim Mulqueen

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Best for: Goalies and Goalie Coaches (it’s a bit of a niche market, I’ll grant you). In a nutshell: US Men’s National Team Goalkeeper coach (he coached Tim Howard, yo) offers tips for training effective goalkeepers. Worth quoting: “The best way to stay on top of the game is by playing along in your head.” Why I chose it: I am a goalkeeper who rarely had any proper goalkeeper training. Whoops. Review: When I moved to London, I thought team sports — specifically soccer, or football as they call it here — might be a way to meet new people […]

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1/5/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:3 |

The Start of Something that Hasn’t Quite Found It’s Footing Just Yet

The Foxhole Court (All for the Game #1) by Nora Sakavic

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The Foxhole Court is the first novel of Nora Sakavic’s All for the Game, which gives an intriguing beginning for what is to come, but unfortunately does not really stand so well as a book on it’s own: it’s clearly just a buildup, and given it’s slim run of under 300 pages, I wonder if perhaps it would not have work to put the 3 instalments of the series into one novel with parts/books 1-2-3 all together? But that’s not my decision at the end of the day, and I feel like I will continue to see where the series […]

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1/3/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:2 |

I just could not stop reading this hockey romance series (almost)

Hard Hitter by Sarina Bowen

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As if I could stop after reading only two of Bowen’s Bruisers novels. As soon as I finished Rookie Move, I picked up Hard Hitter (2017) by Sarina Bowen–the second book in the Brooklyn Bruisers series. By this time, I was back at home and ready to get back to my normal life. I also rarely read books by the same author all in a row, but I got sucked in and couldn’t resist. This one focuses on the captain and enforcer of the hockey team, Patrick O’Doul, and Ari Bettini, the yoga teacher and team massage therapist. Both characters are facing some […]

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11/20/2018 's CBR10 Review No:46 |

More romance, more hockey

Rookie Move by Sarina Bowen

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As soon as I finished Brooklynaire, I bought another Brooklyn Bruisers’ novel by Sarina Bowen. I simply had not gotten my fill of professional hockey players and romance. Rookie Move (2016) is technically the first of Bowen’s Bruisers series, and was also a very fun, enjoyable read. Leo Trevi has just been called up from his minor league team to play in the NHL for the Brooklyn Bruisers. He is excited about finally getting his chance, and he’s under a lot of pressure to perform so that he can stay on the team. To make matters more complicated, of course, Leo’s high school […]

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11/19/2018 's CBR10 Review No:45 |

A romance and a professional hockey team: some of my favorite things

Brooklynaire by Sarina Bowen

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I was in Yosemite. I’d just finished my backpacking trip and had a couple of days to decompress and explore the park before I went home. I was looking for something fun to read in my downtime when I was browsing books on my phone and found Brooklynaire (2018) by Sarina Bowen. The cheesy, hunky picture, the hilarious title, an author I already liked, and the fact that my brother and sister-in-law live in Brooklyn all had me immediately interested. But even better, the story takes place with a professional hockey team. Back in high school and college, I was deeply interested […]

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11/19/2018 's CBR10 Review No:44 |

Spring Football is a Good Idea

Football For A Buck: The Crazy Rise and Crazier Demise of the USFL by Jeff Pearlman

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I saw Jeff Pearlman speak on this, his new book at a nearby Barnes and Noble. He was concerned that nobody would read it. Pearlman has written books on such exciting sports subjects as Roger Clemens, the 90s Dallas Cowboys, and the 1980s Showtime Los Angeles Lakers. And yet, it was this subject, the relatively obscure minor league USFL that excited him more than anything else he’s worked on. But he knew it would be a tough sell, which is why, despite his relative success as a writer, it took so long to get published. Pearlman’s excitement shines in the […]

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11/5/2018 's CBR10 Review No:42 |

Next up at bat is a mystery series sure to make a home run!

Ballpark Mysteries #14 The Cardinals Caper by David A. Kelly

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Years ago, I picked up Ballpark Mysteries #01 The Fenway Foul-Up by David A. Kelly (illustrated by Mark Meyers). While I was not jumping up and down and yelling, “Kill the Ump!” over it, I was thinking “This is good.” I was recommending the series when it was appropriate. Yet, I never read another in the series until the other day. Sadly, book 14 The Cardinals Caper, was damaged. I picked it up before we had to process it as damaged, and spent a nice lunch reading about how a beloved Dalmatian dog was dognapped by someone who wanted the […]

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11/5/2018 's CBR10 Review No:408 |


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