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Angsty, charming, good….and problematic?

Emergency Contact by Mary H.K. Choi

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CBR11 Bingo –  Cannonballer Says So, scootsa1000 reviewed this book two months ago, and she could’ve just said, “Hey, Rainbow Rowell says this is the best book she read last year.” That would’ve been enough to get me to read Emergency Contact. Instead, she went on to give a really good review of the book. I suggest reading it. Penny is a freshman in college, and I don’t think she’s ever looked forward to anything in her life as much as she has getting away from her mother, her high school, and her boyfriend. She’s a little odd, and definitely […]

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8/18/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:19 |

Sugary sweet summer read

The Bride Test by Helen Hoang

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Bingo Square: Listicle When I saw the Listicle category, I figured the easiest way to find a list with something I wanted to read would be to google “Best Books of 2019” or “Summer Reads for 2019,” and Cosmopolitan came through for me.  It had a few novels I had already read and enjoyed, a few that were already on my to read list, and has given me a few more novels to keep an eye out for.  The Bride Test fell into the second category for me, one of those books I knew I would eventually read because I […]

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7/29/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:9 |

“A lengthy light bulb” from Teeth

Date & Time by Phil Kaye

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#cbr11bingo #TheCollection Officially, I have not finished Phil Kaye’s debut poetry collection, Date & Time. However, I have about ten poems left, but feel confident I have gotten the point of his work. I will say that I am not sure of the title, Date & Time, other than saying he does do snapshots of different dates and times in his and his family lives; but I honestly think he might have come up with a stronger title. But that is just me and it is more than likely that this is the perfect title and I am just not […]

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7/26/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:286 |

When Far Away is as close as your backyard

If They Come for Us by Fatimah Asghar

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#cbr11bingo #FarAndAway I am not a woman of the Islamic faith. I did not grow up an orphan. I did not look different from people around me due to my skin color. I do know what it is like to be a woman in our society (and a plus sized one) but I cannot imagine the ethnic cleansing/genocide of over 14 million people during the India/Pakistan Partition and 75,000 to 100.000 of them were women. Yes, I grew up poor. Yes, I know what the smell of a dead rodent is (once your olfactory senses have smelled and tasted that, […]

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7/24/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:284 |

Get your head out of the clouds and gaze at this!

Stargazing by Jen Wang

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Stargazing by Jen Wang is not only less controversial than other graphic novels from this publisher (which deal with issues such as transgender, being gay, and bullying) it is less controversial than their other book, Prince and the Dressmaker (known as PATD from now on). In fact, until I read the other books Wang has done, I did not realize PATD was theirs. Once you see that, there are style similarities to Wang’s illustrations, but that where similarities end. The voices of both graphic novels are radically different. The ages they are geared toward obviously different (PATD is for strong […]

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5/9/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:160 |

These Virtues are Formed in Man by His Doing the Actions

Severance by Ling Ma

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“I couldn’t see myself as a product coordinator forever, coordinating Bibles, shaving razors, Nike sneakers, or whatever, from my desk in New York to various plants across Southeast Asia. Just because you’re adequately good at something doesn’t mean that’s what you should do.” On the surface of it—introverted young woman absorbed by her career struggles to survive a plague-ridden world—this book’s premise isn’t particularly innovative. Turns out it’s all in the execution. This finely crafted novel fully deserves the flotilla of awards it gathered in 2018. The story mashes up several of my favorite things: zombie-esque apocalypse; career malaise; parental […]

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2/25/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:14 |

No Matter the Wreckage there Can be Hope

No Matter the Wreckage by Sarah Kay

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Sarah Kay, along with illustrator Sophia Janowitz, created her debut collection of poetry back in 2014. And in 2018 No Matter the Wreckage came on my radar. Kay’s poems celebrate family, love, travel, as well as the oddness, beauty and darkness of the world. She is powerful and soft. Bold and quiet. She hits you over the head and whispers in your ear. To hear her read her works (so far only on YouTube) would be a grand treat. Her voice is the perfect vessel for her words. No Matter the Wreckage has some amazing lines and some even more […]

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8/21/2018 's CBR10 Review No:314 |

“Everything Here Is Beautiful” is beautiful

Everything Here Is Beautiful by Mira T. Lee

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If you want to cleanse your… brain? palate? brain-palate? of the hellstorm that was 2017, this book is an excellent way to kick off the new year. Everything Here Is Beautiful is the story of two sisters, Miranda and Lucia. Since childhood, Miranda has been the careful and responsible big sister, Jie, while Lucia has been the cheerful and impulsive little sister, Mei. But Lucia occasionally has episodes where she has violent mood swings, hears voices, and becomes increasingly paranoid. Miranda, frightened at what could happen to her baby sister – and, perhaps, what her baby sister could do to others – stresses […]

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1/13/2018 's CBR10 Review No:1 |


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