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A Balloon of One’s Own

The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pene du Bois

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I’ve been reading a lot of children’s books lately, which is a delightful situation. And The Twenty-One Balloons, in particular, is a delightful book. I first read this book as a child and adored it, and I was so excited to read it again. The Twenty-One Balloons is the story of Professor William Waterman Sherman, a retired math teacher who’s sick of kids and is desperate for some solitude. He decides to take off in a hot-air balloon, with enough supplies to last him a year, and see where the wind takes him. It takes him to a most amazing […]

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3/14/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:18 |

Tom Taylor’s journey comes to an end

The Unwritten, vol 10: War Stories and The Unwritten, vol 11: Apocalypse by Mike Carey and Peter Gross

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Tom Taylor is trying to find his way back to his friends, moving through a number of children’s stories. Even when he’s reunited with his storyteller father, Wilson Taylor, who by writing a popular fantasy series where the main character shared Tom’s name, pretty much gave him the abilities to move through all manner of works of fiction, and his friends, the world is in chaos, as the Leviathan, the source of all the stories in the world, is gravely wounded. The boundaries between stories are thin and unreliable and it’s difficult to tell what is real and what is […]

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12/27/2017 's CBR9 Review No:120 |

Treasure hunting and falling in love in Regency England

You're the Earl That I Want by Kelly Bowen

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3.5 stars Heath Hextall has made his fortune in trade, but has inherited an earldom after a distant relative died, and now feels that it’s his duty to to find a nice, well-bred and quietly competent woman to be his wife, to help him keep his life and household orderly. He asks his good friend, the Duke of Worth to help him find a suitable candidate. Lady Josephine “Joss” Somerhall, the Duke of Worth’s younger sister, is back from an extended stay abroad and while she can’t really fault his choice, but is rather taken aback that Hextall is looking […]

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12/26/2017 's CBR9 Review No:118 |

Ya wee scunner, if it’s nae Scottish it’s crap!

Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

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The nice thing about living with another book lover is that when I’m between books and want to pick up something to read, I can just peruse the shelves, and I’m sure to find something new. The upside is this can lead me to discover books I would probably never have sought out on my own. The downside is my options are often limited and are heavily weighted towards nautical fiction and British history. So recently when I was trying to decide on what new adventure I should embark, I saw Kidnapped and thought, “Robert Louis Stevenson, classic, adventure story, […]

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12/9/2017 's CBR9 Review No:23 |

The Beauty and the Civil Service Clerk

Revealed by Kate Noble

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Lady Phillipa Benning is a young, beautiful, fantastically wealthy widow and the undisputed queen (and Mean Girl) of London society. She has set her eyes on the Marquis of Broughton, who is equally eligible, wealthy and popular, but her arch rival from school, Lady Jane Cummings also seems to have him in her sights and the vexing man is not beyond playing the two ladies against each other. Things start getting complicated after Philippa, having arranged a tryst with Broughton in a library, ends up hidden in a sarcophagus overhearing what appears to be famed English spy The Blue Raven discussing […]

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12/3/2017 's CBR9 Review No:108 |

Couples going treasure hunting and falling in love

Fortune Favors the Wicked and Passion Favors the Bold by Theresa Romain

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Fortune Favors the Wicked Benedict Frost is a celebrated lieutenant in the Royal Navy, but is forced to leave his naval career after an illness leaves him incapable of serving on a ship. He’s hoping to supplement his not very generous pension by having a book of his memoirs published, but that proves more difficult that he initially thought. He wants the money to provide a dowry for his younger sister, so when he hears that a large shipment of gold from the Royal Mint has gone missing, and there is a sizable reward offered, he decides to use the […]

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11/17/2017 's CBR9 Review No:100 |

Attention: Everyone. I loved this book.

The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee

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“The great and tragic love story of Percy and me is neither great nor truly a love story, and is tragic only for its single-sidedness … Rather, it is simply the tale of how two people can be important to each other their whole lives, and then, one morning quite without meaning to, one of them wakes to find that importance has been magnified into a sudden and intense desire to put his tongue in the other’s mouth.” This was a delightful confection of a book; just a romping good time. I’ve been looking forward to reading it for ages, […]

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9/4/2017 's CBR9 Review No:68 |

Too much old, not enough new in the Box

The Everything Box by Richard Kadrey

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The Everything Box got a lot of attention when it first came out, but I’ve only just now gotten to it. I don’t quite understand what all the hype was about. Yes this is an entertaining adventure story with amusing characters, but I didn’t love it. I enjoyed it, but it just wasn’t as awesome as I was hoping. 3.5 stars. First, it’s so strongly reminiscent of Good Omens (by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman) in terms of characters and plot that it comes off a little unoriginal to me. Coop is the Warlock/Adam character with a tough of Shadow […]

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7/23/2017 's CBR9 Review No:49 |


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