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Delightful stubbornness

A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

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A Man Called Ove is about a delightfully stubborn widower in Sweden. He has a strict logic that he applies to the world. He yearns for consistency and routine. Anyone who deviates from the order is likely inefficient and an idiot in his mind. He is suspicious of most things and prefers to abstain from all social things. I enjoyed his rising frustration at the computer store when he attempts to buy a computer. Despite his crankiness, Ove fell in love with a woman named Sonja. It was love at first sight on a train. The book flashes back to […]

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12/3/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:15 |

It was a fun trip!

Stranger Than Fanfiction by Chris Colfer

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Not gonna lie, I picked this up for the title first.  I’m an unashamed reader of fanfiction, so when I saw the clever title, I wanted to know more.  Then I read the back, and immediately knew this was for me!  (Fanfiction doesn’t actually play a huge role in this, though!) This is kind of in the same realm as Geekarella.  There’s a show that’s kind of geeky but has a strong cult following, and they both have conventions!  There are stars that love working on the show but not the fame as much, and there are older teens who […]

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10/30/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:68 |

“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.” (CBR11 Bingo)

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Rosamund Pike (narrator)

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I have absolutely no idea how to review this book. Instead, I’ll tell you the story of my relationship with it. In my sophomore year of high school we read Austen for the first time. I clearly remember our teacher (looking back he was young, with long hair) stalking around the room selling us on an author only some of us had heard of, and attempting to inspire in us the mental fortitude it takes a 15 or 16 year old to really battle with language 185 years old. But I don’t remember with certainty which Austen it was. I […]

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10/29/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:50 |

This review has been inspired by the Thug Notes “Pride and Prejudice” episode. Also, spoilers.

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

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So we have our girl Catherine Morland, one of ten Morland siblings.  She’s the son of a preacher man, so that’s cool. She starts out life as a tomboy, but gets over that by the time she turns fifteen.  Now seventeen, she gets to go on a sweet vacation to Bath with her neighbors, Mr. and Mrs. Allen. Mr. Allen is going for his gout, and Mrs. Allen wants Catherine to go for company.  I suppose Mrs. Allen also knows that going on a six-week vacation would be boring as hell with no one but her husband to talk to, […]

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10/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:63 |

What’s your book about? Stuff.

Stuff Matters by Mark Miodownik

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This book is meant to make you think about all the stuff that surrounds you.  Not the clutter, but the stuff that that clutter is made of. The metal in your chair, the cloth of your clothes, the paper of the book you’re reading.  We take the materials in our world largely for granted, but there was a lot of time and effort put in to discovering and inventing all of the materials that we encounter in our daily lives.  The book is divided into chapters, and each one has a different structure to it, much like the different structures […]

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10/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:61 |

Neat.

A Grown-Up Guide to Dinosaurs by Ben Garrod

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Ok, so I just finished listening to this today (when I wrote this review, which is actually being posted months later).  These are the things I remember from the audiobook. To be fair, I was listening on my commute to work, so some distraction from listening is to be expected, you know, because I was driving a vehicle.    Thing 1: Part of what makes a dinosaur a dinosaur has to do with the hips.  Dinosaurs evolved to have their hips configured in a way that the legs go down instead of out like a crocodile or a lizard. Neat. […]

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10/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:60 |

I finally got around to the one I was saving

Armada by Ernest Cline

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I’m a big fan of Ready Player One, especially the version read by Wi Wheaton.  So I knew right away that I wanted to listen to his narration of Armada.  (I bought it right away when I got my Audible account, and then saved it.)  Ernest Cline obviously loves video games and the ‘70’s and ‘80’s, and the ‘90’s too.  The amount of pop culture he includes in his books is impressive.   For some reason, I thought this was written way before it was.  Ready Player One was published in 2010, and Armada in 2015.  Well, I guess that reason […]

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10/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:53 |

No books were harmed, this time

The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

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I was 16 when I read The Handmaid’s Tale and I was just beginning my love affair with dystopian tales. I don’t think I liked bleak stories all that much growing up, but man, as soon as I read Fahrenheit 451 they were all I wanted. Give me some of that sweet, sweet harrowing future straight to the veins, and anything like it. When a friend gifted me The Handmaid’s Tale, I thought I’d love it. I read it voraciously, in about two days, and then, enraged, threw it against a wall. If you know the end of that book, […]

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10/7/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:24 |


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