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A Lady Unlike Any Other

A Study in Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas

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4.5 stars I keep struggling to summarise the plot in a good way, so I’ll just let the blurb do it: With her inquisitive mind, Charlotte Holmes has never felt comfortable with the demureness expected of the fairer sex in upper class society. But even she never thought that she would become a social pariah, an outcast fending for herself on the mean streets of London.  When the city is struck by a trio of unexpected deaths and suspicion falls on her sister and her father, Charlotte is desperate to find the true culprits and clear the family name. She’ll […]

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4/11/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:14 |

I’d like to be/under the sea

The Benefits of Being an Octopus by Ann Braden

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Zoey doesn’t have time to finish her schoolwork. It’s not that she doesn’t care – she does. It’s not that she isn’t smart – she is. But being responsible for the care of her three preschool siblings while mom’s working means she doesn’t have time for things that other kids have time for.  It would be easier for Zoey, she thinks, if she was an octopus. Eight legs to juggle her siblings and help around the house. The ability to camouflage when her teacher eyes her for her homework. Powerful defense abilities when her classmates start making fun of her […]

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2/27/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:13 |

true story: my parents were called in for a meeting with the guidance counselor when I wrote a poem about bog sacrifices in third grade

Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss

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…which I learned about from reading Spider magazine. Ghost Wall kicks off with a young woman being led to the peaty gloom before snapping back to a modern teenager forced to reenact the Iron Age with her father and the massive chip on his shoulder. Clocking in at a mere 130 pages, Ghost Wall bridges the expanse from ancient Britons to bored college students. Sarah Moss’s prose is sparse but lush; months worth of meditations shift and shimmer through the fog of just 130 pages.   A theme reigns supreme throughout this expanse: a woman’s worth can only be described through her purity. Parents, professors, students, […]

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2/11/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:5 |

Men Are Terrible and Cannot Be Trusted

Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss

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Ghost Wall is a story about Sylvie, a seventeen year old girl, dragged along on an Iron Age reenactment in northern England with her father, Bill. Bill’s enthusiasm for the Iron Age is a hobby; he isn’t traditionally educated in the subject, and jumps at the opportunity to join Professor Jim Slade and his students for what is essentially a two-week summer LARP. He brings his wife, Alison, and his daughter, Sylvie, along for the ride. It becomes obvious early in the novel that Bill regularly beats Alison and Sylvie, and that his abuse goes further than reenactment: he expects […]

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2/6/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:1 |

Many self-loathing. Such love. Wow.

Fifty Shades of Grey by EL James

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Hi. My name is Anastasia Rose Steele. This is totally an actual person name and not made up in any way. I go by Ana, as in pro-Ana, because we share a sense of destructive self-loathing. Anyhoodle, can I just tell you about this totally charming guy I met? I hated him the first time I saw him. It was love at first sight. Let me tell you a little bit about myself. First of all, with my trim frame and my luscious brown hair and my ability to ensnare a Fortune 500 CEO simply by tripping over my own […]

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1/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:5 |

Do not give the sirens call a listen

We Slept Here by Sierra DeMulder

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I am not sure when everyone slept in We Slept Here, unless it was a drug induced state, but Sierra DeMulder does a lot of other things, too. She does not hold back. She gives you the picture of a girl growing up in a family that allowed abuse. Oh, dad did not hit mom, so that is how they justified it, but it is forever burned into her brain her father yelling and her mother taking it. She does not hold back. She gives you the picture of a woman in a relationship that looks a lot like her […]

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12/14/2018 's CBR10 Review No:459 |

I love cheesy 90s YA horror

The Boxes by William Sleator

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First, this book was great, and I’m reminded of my oft-forgotten intention to find more Sleator.  If you like Stine, but want a slightly older and more sci-fi bent, then you’ll love his books.  I read Singularity years ago and kept an eye out for my own copy to buy ever since, which I picked up just recently.  I found THE BOXES in a Shoprite used book sale-I think the money goes towards food kitchens-and immediately grabbed it. Second, I should mention that, for those of us who were around for the whole development of the home computer as a […]

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11/25/2018 's CBR10 Review No:6 |

“How could he think his way out of the problem when the problem was the way he thought . . .” #CBRBingo

Bad News (Patrick Melrose, #2) by Edward St. Aubyn

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“Everything was under control. No, he mustn’t think about it, or indeed about anything, and especially not about heroin, because heroin was the only thing that stopped him scampering around in a hamster’s wheel of unanswerable questions. Heroin was the cavalry. Heroin was the missing chair leg, made with such precision that matched every splinter of the break. Heroin landed purring at the base of his skull, and wrapped itself darkly around his nervous system, like a black cat curling up on its favorite cushion. It was as soft and rich as the throat of a wood pigeon, or the […]

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9/10/2018 's CBR10 Review No:111 |


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