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“Therapy is like a toothbrush. You can’t really put it to use for anybody but yourself”

Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes

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#CBR11 Bingo: Reader’s Choice (in place of Back to School) (would also work for a Pajiba or Listicle square, as well as Summer Read) Eveleth “Evvie” (rhymes with ‘chevy’) Drake has packed the car and is about to leave her husband when she gets a phone call that he’s been in a car accident. Before she can make it to the hospital, he is dead. About a year later, everyone thinks Evvie has kept to herself, isolated in her big house, because she’s overcome with grief. She never told anyone that the town’s beloved son, a popular and charming doctor, was in […]

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9/14/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:64 |

If My Life Was a Story it would have a better sound track….

If This Were a Story by Beth Turley

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#cbr11bingo #SummerRead If This Were a Story looks at anxiety within a modern setting. Perhaps the issues are too easily solved by the end of the book, but it is an over good first novel for the 8 to 10 crowd. Hannah is a pre-junior high student trying to deal with issues even the adults do not always understand: bullies, fighting parents, friends growing apart and school work. Her way of coping is to ignore much of what is going on, keeping her head down, not talking to the school counselor and worrying internally. The only friend who does seem […]

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8/20/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:324 |

Laugh so Loud at the Coffee Shop that the Guy Next in Line Spills His Drink (CBR11 Bingo: The Collection)

Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory by Raphael Bob-Waksberg

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The bizarre come home to roost in Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory. Fleeting daydreams turn into years long stunted relationships, science goes too far into US history, dogs navigate the meaning of “good” and “bad”, entire stories are told in the span of half-sentences, and a Minions watch holds new and aching power. The wordplay, absurdity, and bone-deep ennui of Bob-Waksberg’s previous creation, Bojack Horseman, are ever present and ready to build you up and tear you back down to the ground. Some of those sensibilities make themselves known before even opening the book, as Bob-Waksberg solicited […]

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8/18/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:11 |

A kissing book with SCIENCE!

The Lawrence Browne Affair by Cat Sebastian

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4.5 stars #CBR11 Bingo: Science! One of the protagonists is a scientist and his scientific experiments plays an important part throughout the story. Official book description: Lawrence Browne, the Earl of Radnor, is mad. At least, that’s what he and most of the village believes. A brilliant scientist, he hides himself away in his family’s crumbling estate, unwilling to venture into the outside world. When an annoyingly handsome man arrives at Penkellis, claiming to be Lawrence’s new secretary, his carefully planned world is turned upside down. Georgie Turner has made his life pretending to be anyone but himself. A swindler and […]

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7/22/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:46 |

Books Help Keep Kids’ Hearts Open in Fearful Times

Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler

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I teach an ethics class for little kids on Sunday mornings. It’s a small group and the kids don’t come every Sunday, because lives are complicated. The group ranges in age from 3 to 9, so it can be a challenge to find things that hold their interest.

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10/29/2018 's CBR10 Review No:47 |

“There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t”

Turtles All the Way Down by John Green

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Aza Holmes doesn’t have a lot of friends, and her best friend Daisy, a gregarious and outgoing fan fiction writer, sometimes finds her a bit exhausting. This is not surprising, as Aza struggles with anxiety and OCD. When local billionaire Russell Davis Picket goes missing and there is a reward offered for news of his whereabouts, Daisy remembers that Aza knows his son. Daisy orchestrates a scenario so that Aza can reconnect with Davis, who she hasn’t seen for a few years. Aza and Davis met at a camp for children who’d lost parents. Aza’s father died, as did Davis’ […]

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9/13/2018 's CBR10 Review No:79 |

It’s hard to become homecoming queen when you can’t even leave your house

Love and Other Alien Experiences by Kerry Winfrey

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From Goodreads, as I’m once again reviewing books from over a month ago: Mallory hasn’t left the house in sixty-seven days–since the day her dad left. She attends her classes via webcam, rarely leaves her room (much to her brother’s chagrin), and spends most of her time watching The X-Files or chatting with the always obnoxious BeamMeUp on New Mexico’s premier alien message board. But when she’s shockingly nominated for homecoming queen, her life takes a surprising turn. She slowly begins to open up to the world outside. And maybe if she can get her popular jock neighbor Brad Kirkpatrick to be her homecoming […]

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8/24/2018 's CBR10 Review No:62 |

They think, therefore they ARRRR!!!!!

Kindergarrrten Bus by Mike Ornstein

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Yo ho ho! And a bottle of Milk! Listen up you scurry mates! I have one whale of a tale to tell you about! When one tough pirate… bus driver… is all about how brrrave and strrrong pirrrates… I mean kinderrrgarteners are when they are off to their first day of school. That is, until his beloved parrot, Polly, flies off because of stormy seas…. Ah… bumpy roads. This leaves him to show that he might not be so brave himself after all. But with help from some (kinda scared, missing mommies, daddies, doggies and blankies) kids, he (and the […]

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8/24/2018 's CBR10 Review No:320 |


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