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There’s Always a Road to Here, No Matter Where Here Is (#CBR10Bingo)

Scrappy Little Nobody by Anna Kendrick

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I went away this weekend with one of my favorite people and we spent our time looking at gorgeous scenery, visiting museums and historic sites, and eating and drinking local. In doing so we spent a lot of time in the car going from place to place, so my travel buddy suggested we listen to Anna Kendrick’s autobiography because he was sure I would really enjoy it. This is why he’s one of my favorites, perfectly lovely weekend away and happy to re-listen to an audiobook because I would want to read it. This book, in turn, was really good […]

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8/21/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:34 |

“All things are reflections of other things.”

The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains by Neil Gaiman

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This is a short story by Neil Gaiman.  A dwarf comes seeking a man to act as a guide to a certain cave in the Black Mountains on the Misty Isle, a cave that is said to be full of gold for the taking.  But that gold comes with a price. This is a story of travel and darkness and truth.   Going the audiobook route is always a different experience than reading something, especially when the text is supplemented by illustrations, as this one is.  In exchange for not getting to experience the illustrations with this work, we have […]

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8/6/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:20 |

Finally, A Jane Eyre I Can Get Behind

My Plain Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, Jodi Meadows

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I don’t like any of the Bronte siblings books. Jane Eyre is the only one of their books I have managed to finish. I hated it. I would not have picked this up if I hadn’t loved My Lady Jane. Even so, I picked it up with trepidation. Everything was fine. There is a great star crossed love story here. There are wild moors. There are broody gentlemen. There is a horrible school with an abusive headmaster. But there is also feminism, wit, charm, ghosts, and a happy ending that doesn’t make your skin crawl. One cannot hate on the Brontës […]

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8/2/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:32 |

All good things must come to an end

Super Powereds: Year 4 by Drew Hayes

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This book is a kind of bittersweet, in that it’s the last one in the main series.  It’s a crazy long four books (well, five if you count the spinoff**) and it truly is the end of a journey.  We’ve seen these characters grow from immature teens to adults who are willing to make tough decisions, and who are tangled in things far beyond them.  The four years (or more) you spend at college change who you are as a person, and we get to see that through these books.   A few times characters acknowledge their growth.  They go […]

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8/1/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:19 |

Louder Than Life? No Kidding!

Absolute Pandemonium: My Louder Than Life Story by Brian Blessed

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  One of the unexpected joys I’ve discovered since I’ve started listening to audiobooks is the self-narrated biography or memoir. There is just something about hearing the voice of the subject that really enhances the experience.  This is especially so for biographies written by entertainers and performers, who naturally make excellent narrators. So far, I have enjoyed biographies read and written by Alexei Sayle, Eddie Izzard, Magda Szubanski and David Attenborough. But there is only one so far that I would say HAS to be enjoyed in the audiobook format – and that’s the memoir of BRIAN BLESSED! And if […]

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5/24/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:15 |

Does Cookie Dough Ice Cream Go With Red or White Wine?

The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory

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I don’t really like listening to romance audiobooks, but The Wedding Date was so charming I listened to this for hours. Alexa and Drew have a meet cute – trapped together in an elevator where they share Alexa’s cheese and crackers and Drew tells her about the wedding from Hell he is attending alone that weekend. They laugh and flirt. He invites her to be his date. She agrees. It’s a one weekend thing. She lives in the Bay Area. He lives in LA. They both have demanding careers. That one weekend thing keeps going for several weekends. As they get […]

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5/23/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:20 |

For Everyone Who Knows There Was Enough Room For Leonardo DiCaprio on That Door

My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, Jodi Meadows

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Narfna recommended this to me as an audiobook some time ago. I have finally picked it up, and it is a goddamn delight. Seriously. It is a rambunctious blend of alternate history, YA, and romance. It starts with an apology to England for what the authors were about to do to history. It’s important that you don’t know too much about how the history is alternate going in. I started laughing pretty quickly, and surprise was part of the delight. If you know anything about the history of Lady Jane Grey, laughter is not what you expect from a book […]

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5/15/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:18 |

A Spark to Guide You Forward

A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers

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I think if there is such a sub-genre as “cozy sci-fi”, Becky Chambers is one of it’s lead writers. A Closed and Common Orbit is the sequel to Becky Chambers debut novel, The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet. Even more than it’s predecessor, this book is more concerned with the interactions of it’s characters than with action or adventure. At the end of Small Angry Planet, the Wayfarer’s AI, Lovelace, “Lovey,” is damaged in an unprovoked attack. To save Lovey, she is downloaded into a body kit, giving her the appearance of being human. During this process, many of the […]

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5/9/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:16 |


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