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The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

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Birthday/cbr10bingo  Sylvia Plath was born Oct. 27, 1932. Bingo #2 Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar is a semi-autobiographical novel about a young woman’s experience of depression and mental illness, her time in an institution and her slow journey back to wellness. It is also a commentary on the suffocating life of a young woman who wants more than life seems to offer her because of her class and gender. The Bell Jar was published in the UK in 1963, just before Plath committed suicide. The Bell Jar is the story of Esther Greenwood as told by Esther. She is a […]

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11/15/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:45 |

A lovely fairy tale that came at just the right time

The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill

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I am quite sure I found a review of this book on the CBR site, and it sounded like a lovely warm book to read in what has been a challenging few weeks. It’s a Newberry Award winning young adult book, filled with emotion and magic and love. The book began much like a traditional Brothers Grimm fairytale; a village needs to leave it’s youngest child in the forest on a certain day every year, an offering to an evil witch so that she leaves the village alone for the remainder of the year. The villagers generally don’t seem to […]

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11/12/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:26 |

The Review and the Review

The City and the City by China Miéville

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This is my first ever double-review! I have borrowed the wonderful extra brain that is my friend Amy. We met briefly in England and now she’s in Georgia and I’m in Denmark. We’ve read the same book and then I’ve bombarded her with loads of questions in an effort to ensure that she’d do most of the work, because well Amy’s brilliant and I love hearing what she thinks. I, of course, stole these questions shamelessly from the internet so there is nothing original about anything in my side of this review. I answered some questions as well, trying to […]

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11/12/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:40 |

Y’all…. This one’s gonna be a bit different

There is No Good Card for This; When Life Hits the Fan; TIny Beautiful Things; 180 more Extraordinary Poems for Every Day; the sun and her flowers; The Art of Comforting; Rising Strong; How to Be a Heroine; Raising Human Beings by Kelsey Crowe & Emily McDowell; Janet Fouts; Cheryl Strayed; Billy Collins; Rupi Kaur; Val Walker; Brene Brown, Samantha Ellis; Ross Greene

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  Lemme tell you a not-so-secret-secret about ‘adulthood’: Nobody knows what the f they are doing. So much of being an adult is dealing with sucky situations – all the sudden a lot of your friend’s parents are dying, or your sister-in-law gets cancer (again), or this one has an affair that devastates that one, or your cousin suffers another miscarriage while her sister is expecting twins.  Literally, life just becomes chock full of situations that you are not prepared to face, and suddenly you have no other choice but to face them.  At least, that’s what adulthood has been […]

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11/10/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:20 |

Who Was…. Part two

Who Was..... by various

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Yes, I have mentioned the Who Is/Who Was series before, but I have several of the titles and could not let good reads go to waste! This time: Who Was Martin Luther King, Jr.? and Who Was Barack Obama? and Who Was Amelia Earhart? and Who Was Charles Darwin are the “newest” ones devoured. Of course, pairing Martin Luther King, Jr. and Obama is natural. Two men of color who broke racial barriers. But why pair Earhart and Darwin, too? Earhart broke down barriers, too, though for women and helped bring aviation to the public. And Darwin changed the worlds […]

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11/9/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:422 |

Life is Simple, Except When it Isn’t.

Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

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This book is amazing. I love this book. I am so glad I stumbled across this looking for something to fill up my bingo card. Magical realism is one of my absolute favorite story telling devices when it is done well, and this is such a perfect example of what it can really do. This is the story of Jojo’s family. Jojo is a thirteen-year-old mixed race boy growing up in the current day South and straddling that realm in between boyhood and adulthood. He lives with his Grandparents, Mam and Pop, his toddler sister Kayla and his mom, Leonie. […]

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11/7/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:17 |

P.S This was still pretty fun if a little less well rounded

P.S I Still Love You by Jenny Han

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Thanks to the quirks of inter-library loan, I received To All The Boys I Loved Before and its sequel P.S I Still Love You at the same time. Little did I know; my library was doing me a favor because Han’s sequel works best if the reader consumes it immediately after reading To All The Boys. In fact, I feel like Jennie Han encourages the reader to binge read both books back to back because the events of the second book pick up a mere day or two later after the first book ends. Lara Jean’s and Peter’s “will they […]

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11/2/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:5 |

Good, but not great

The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester

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I am so, so behind in my reviews, having read The Demolished Man easily over a month ago, so I’m raiding my increasingly decrepit memory bank for this review.  I used to read a lot of science fiction but have tended more towards the historical/fantasy over the past few years. When the sci-fi itch returned I thought I’d head for the man who gave me one of my favourite reads in years…The Demolished Man is good, but doesn’t stand anywhere near equal with The Stars My Destination. In a future where telepathy is common, businesses employ the best they can […]

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10/30/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:71 |


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