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Science fiction I actually enjoyed!

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

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#CBR10Bingo: Cannonballer Recommends (this was a CBR Book Exchange gift from Yesknopemaybe (my paperback copy), it has also been favourably reviewed by MathildeHoeg, ingres77, dAvid, badkittyuno, belphebe, emmalita, narfna and faintingviolet, among others) Rosemary Harper is trying to escape her old life and doesn’t want anyone tracking her down. She pays a lot of money to get a new identity and gets a job on a run-down and patched up spaceship, where no one from her old life would ever think to look for her. Aboard the Wayfarer, with its eclectic, but mostly affectionate crew, she finds a sense of community and […]

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11/8/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:95 |

This Chicken is no chicken!

The Hen Who Sailed Around the World by Guirec Soudee

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The Hen Who Sailed Around the World by Guirec Soudee is the true story of Soudee’s 3,400-mile sea voyage with his pet hen, Monique. That pretty much sums up the story. There are lots of wonderful photographs of Soudee with Monique. And lots of wonderful photographs of Monique by herself. Not to mention lots of wonderful photographs of some of the friends they meet along the way. And we cannot forget the lots and lots of photographs of ice. Lots and lots of ice. The best description of Monique comes from a publisher description: “she surfs, she skateboards, and she […]

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10/15/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:387 |

Sugary sweetness and a lot of fur, claws and cuteness

Fuzzy's Great Escape (Class Pets #1) by Bruce Hale

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This is my Brain Candy (mmm candy…) Kids will love Fuzzy’s Great Escape (Class Pets #1) by Bruce Hale. Me? I enjoyed it, even with the fact that there were a few holes in the story line for me. The story seems to start in the middle of a series. Perhaps there was another series that introduced Fuzzy and friends? There will be others in the Class Pets series, so perhaps he plans flashbacks. (There is a character mentioned that you have never meet as it “went to the farm” and Fuzzy knows what that means. Of course, the adult […]

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8/23/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:316 |

The Memoirs of a Chatty African Grey Parrot

Yiddish for Pirates by Gary Barwin

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Bingo Square: Cannonballer Says! I saw lumenatrix’s review of this one, and was immediately intrigued.  Jewish pirates during the Spanish Inquisition and Columbus? A five-hundred-year old parrot narrator?  A gorgeous cover?  Yes, please! Or to quote the narrator, a story about, “Pirates. Parrots. Jews. Jewels. The Inquisition. Gefilte fish. Gold. A Girl.” While I quite enjoyed this one, I also feel like I approached it in the wrong way.  I was so excited about the whole Jewish pirate thing that I may have raced through the earlier parts of the book to get to the pirating – Moishe doesn’t become […]

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8/20/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:151 |

Gourmet Dining on a Pirate Ship

Cinnamon and Gunpowder by Eli Brown

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Bingo Square: Delicious! This was going to be my “Cannonballer Says!” square until I remembered that cinnamon is kind of a food (spices count, right? I mean you eat them, just not in large portions) and the novel’s whole premise is that a chef has to impress a pirate captain with a weekly gourmet food menu, so the novel promptly got moved to “Delicious!” (and replaced by another pirate themed novel for “Cannonballer Says!”). I definitely understand why ElCicco gave this one 3 stars while also calling it a great beach read.  It is fun but it also takes a […]

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8/6/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:145 |

Family Matters and Magic

Love, Lies, and Hocus Pocus: Revelations (AND) Allies by Lydia Sherrer

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This is effectively one review for two books because really, it should be one book, not two. Let it be known I find these entertaining easy reads, but there are some structural and character problems that are really starting to annoy me. 3.5 stars combined. The continuation of gradually revealing more about the world really develops in Revelations, along with what is pretty obviously the main conflict of the series: villainous wizard want to discover ‘wizarding’ gene and use this information to find and wake up Morgan LeFay (yes, that Morgan) and ensure that wizards will rule humanity. What bothers […]

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8/5/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:48 |

A Short-Story Novel Hybrid

Love, Lies, and Hocus Pocus: Beginnigns by Lydia Sherrer

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The world and the characters in Love, Lies, and Hocus Pocus: Beginnings are so much fun that it really annoys me how short the stories and the book are. To some extent, the two main characters are pretty standard. Lily is bookish, socially awkward, and talented with magic; she’s a wizard. Sebastian is friendly, good looking, a troublemaker, and has little magic talent, but he is a witch. This to me is a tradition buddy mystery-solving/adventure team. What makes them fun is their dynamic and how it comes from the magic system in their otherwise normal/real world. Neither of them […]

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6/30/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:41 |

How he trained his dragon

Temeraire by Naomi Novik

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Captain Will Laurence has spent his life in the Navy, and expects it to continue that way. However, being currently embroiled in the Napoleonic Wars, that life soon comes to an end – but not through death. Instead, having captured a French ship, Captain Laurence’s ship takes its cargo as a prize…a large dragon’s egg, whose inhabitant decides upon hatching that Captain Laurence will do nicely for a handler. In this alternate history, dragons that aren’t paired with handlers tend to go feral, therefore losing whichever country that claims it as their own a very valuable asset in the aerial […]

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6/19/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:42 |


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