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Rock-a-bye friends in the tree-house top

The Tallest Tree House by Elly MacKay

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The Tallest Tree House by Elly MacKay is one of those books where what you put into it is what you take out of it. You will either really like it, or be “eh, that’s nice.” The Tallest Tree House is a sweet story about friendship and the theme of “a place and time for everything.” And the time to build a tree house is now. But two friends have unique ways of going about making one. One plans and the other rushes about without thinking. Yet, when danger strikes, fast thinking might just be the answer they need. The […]

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4/25/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:141 |

I have no idea what I’m doing

Exhibition Design by Philip Hughes

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Say you get a new job, one that’s your dream, but also that you’re grossly under-qualified for. You have limited experience, it requires you move to a different country and you basically have a month to do it. What would you do? Buy a book? Well, congratulations you’re 100% like me. Also you will buy this particular book because you liked the cover. #GoodChoices. This book is not the bible of exhibition design it’s a low-stakes introduction, a sort of ‘which-one-where-does-what’ of exhibition design. I marvelled at the chapter on light finding it illuminating and inspiring, but when I read […]

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2/11/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:6 |

Helping Us Figure Out Why Buildings Cause Such Visceral Reactions

The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton

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Best for: People not that familiar with architecture who are interested in learning about it in a philosophical way. In a nutshell: Author de Botton takes the reader through a lovely journey exploring how the buildings we inhabit can help fill missing pieces in our lives, and impact how we feel. Line that sticks with me: “The buildings we admire are ultimately those which, in a variety of ways, extol values we think worthwhile.” (p 98) Why I chose it: I bought this long ago. It’s survived multiple book purges and moves, but I finally opened it up because I’m […]

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7/8/2017 's CBR9 Review No:54 |

God bless busybody community matriarchs, and all that sail in them.

Broken Homes by Ben Aaronovitch

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More, please. More, more, more. I just love me some Peter Grant. And fair warning to the reader who may be interested in this series: this book, Broken Homes, which is Book 4 of the “Rivers of London” series, isn’t the strongest of the bunch. But it’s still a delight and a treat, and I will fight anyone who isn’t a fan. Listen, I have five more “Dark Tower” books to read in the next five weeks, but I still just checked out Foxglove Summer (Book 5 of “Rivers of London”) from the library, and investigated the graphic novel series […]

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6/30/2017 's CBR9 Review No:26 |

In which I am outraged by a book’s audacity to be poorly written, edited, and titled

Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture by Ross King

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This book made me unreasonably angry, so here I am, entering the world of the Cannonball Read as an outraged reader. I really wanted to love this book, because it’s about something about which I know nothing. But I wasn’t able to learn much. The narrative is completely scattered, and there are an astonishing number of tangents that are distracting and irritating. I mean, total non-sequitors. An example, “The story [of a prank pulled by Filippo Brunelleschi], known as “The Tale of the Fat Carpenter,” gained the status of legend in Florence and is related by Filippo’s biographer, Antonio Manetti. […]

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1/3/2016 's CBR8 Review No:1 |


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