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Jack Reacher Gets Schooled

Night School by Lee Child

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Lee Child has a formula and most of the time, it’s just the summer (or winter break) read I’m looking for*. However, one of the things I liked about this 2016 Jack Reacher novel was that it wasn’t the usual “Reacher strolls into a small town in middle America and gets into a nest of trouble.” Instead, Child goes back to the 1990’s when Reacher was in the army and constructs a story that involves terrorists of both the Islamic and Nazi persuasion, missing nuclear weapons, and a rogue U.S citizen who is looking to score the deal of a life-time.  […]

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6/18/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:21 |

Nobody’s Perfect

The Perfect Mother by Aimee Molloy

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A bunch of women get together and call themselves the “May Mothers” after meeting on an online chat group for first time expectant parents.  One by one each of the women become mothers and work to deal with the specific challenges that motherhood can present. In this book we see women trying to balance their careers while still being a “good mom”, the trouble with breastfeeding for some, post partum depression (and perhaps even psychosis), achieving intimacy with a partner, and just being able to take a few minutes to yourself without feeling guilty or feeling like you’re doing something […]

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6/12/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:20 |

The audiobooks really do make this series better.

Career of Evil (Cormoran Strike, #3) by Robert Galbraith

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This review is mostly going to be me responding to some of my own thoughts from my first review, with some extras thrown in; for example, how I was considering raising this to five stars because I loved Robert Glenister’s narration so much. I love the dead tree versions of this book, but the audio adds another level. Highly recommend if you are so inclined. (I’m leaving my rating at 4.5, rounding down, for now, because of the ending. See below.) Spoilery discussion of several plot points below. So firstly, having now re-read this, I can state with approximately 99% […]

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6/7/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:72 |

You Ever Get Tired of Being Who People Want You to Be, and Not Yourself?

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

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I’m a little late on boarding this train, aren’t I? So I’m sure most of you know the story already (mild spoilers abound in this review): I myself have seen the movie adaptation! But it was a conversation about said movie that made me want to actually read Gone Girl in the first place. Basically, the conversation boiled down to most people simply dismissing the character of Amy in the story as “crazy”. And while, no, I don’t agree with her actions and she does seem sociopathic, I thought… that’s so reductive: there’s so much more to it than that! […]

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6/6/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:24 |

No title can do this book justice.

Force of Nature by Jane harper

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  I love love love this book! The Dry, by Jane Harper was absolutely fantastic and beautifully written. This book is just as good. Whilst it doesn’t contain the same beautiful descriptions of places and people, it excels in being a great mystery. This book is about a team building exercise where a group of guys and ladies head out to bond. All of the men return on time, the women are late back and one of them does not return. The mystery is around what has happened to the missing lady, and what caused her to not return. This […]

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6/3/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:21 |

Ice and blood and family secrets

The Ice Princess by Camilla Läckberg

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Growing up in a small town in the Deep Midwest, I dreamed of traveling to all of the exotic places I heard and read about, even though it seemed out of reach. My family was poor and never took any real vacations, not even a road trip to the Black Hills or Yellowstone, and until my freshman year of college, I’d really only been to four states including my own. I didn’t see the ocean until I was 18, didn’t fly until I was 22, didn’t leave the continent until I was 29, and didn’t leave again until I was […]

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6/2/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:30 |

I Blame Christopher Pike

Ten by Gretchen McNeil

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Who wouldn’t be excited to be invited to an exclusive party by one of the most popular people?  And she said keep it a secret…so they did, from all their friends and families.  Unfortunately, almost as soon as they arrive they find themselves facing peril–bad weather, power outages, no reception and oh…everyone is slowly getting murdered one by one.  Some of them are friends, some are strangers to one another, what connection do they have? Why are they being murdered and which one of the them is the murderer? I saw this on BookBub the other day and I also saw […]

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5/30/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:19 |

Close the Book

Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris

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So I’m back to my “British women in peril” theme, apparently, and this entry is . . . not good. It’s gripping; I definitely wanted to know what was going to happen. And (a) there’s a denouement, and (b) some really key information was missing that would make me feel the level of dread I was supposed to. The heroine of B.A. Paris’s Behind Closed Doors is given a backstory that is emotionally traumatic, but she doesn’t seem to recognize it as trauma, and seems to have no awareness of how that trauma informs her actions and decisions. She’s positioned […]

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5/25/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:7 |


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