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I was not as entertained as many were

The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion

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Don Tillman is a genetics professor at a university in Australia who has decided that it is time to find a wife.  He has tried dating before to disastrous results, and stumbles upon the idea that a questionnaire will help mitigate the disasters.  He asks a fellow professor and friend, Gene, to help him. Gene is a notorious playboy, trying to sleep with women from as many countries as possible.  He is also an ass for not seeing that the “open marriage” he has with his wife is making her miserable. Well, he probably knows it, even if it’s a […]

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10/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:65 |

The legal feminist memoir I’ve been waiting for…

Eggshell Skull by Bri Lee

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Bri Lee’s honest story has held me captive through an awful bout of influenza in the last 4 days. Nightly, I’ve taken to waking up drenched in fevered sweats and been incapable of falling back to sleep. This flu season is not mucking around. But it’s been an honour to drag my disgusting virus-riddled self to the couch, turn on the muted living-room lamp, and read her words til the sound of birdsong let me know the sun was coming up.  Her journey from law graduate, to judge’s associate, to complainant in her own criminal matter, was told with sincerity, […]

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9/17/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:18 |

More teens taking on social justice, Australian edition!

Amelia Westlake Was Never Here by Erin Gough

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CBR11Bingo – Far and Away! This book is set in Australia, which according to a random internet website, is about halfway around the world from me. Will Everhart loathes her life at her new stuffy school Rosemead girls’ academy.  She’s always fought loudly on the side of injustice, leaving her a little lonely and unliked at her public school, but that’s only exacerbated here.  Even though the principal has got an eye on her, and even though her grades are failing, she still can’t keep her mouth shut when the swim coach makes yet another rude and sexist comment to […]

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8/14/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:55 |

“Every Love Story is a Ghost Story”

Words in Deep Blue by Cath Crowley

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Bingo Square: Cannonballer Says Caitlin_D posted her review of Words in Deep Blue a few days before I got on the Cannonball Read site in late June for some book inspiration.  I hadn’t exactly been paying much attention to new releases, so I quickly ended up discovering that some previously enjoyed authors had new novels out which were promptly added to the cart.  Between the review, the title and the cover, something about this novel appealed to me, so it too made the cut (I can’t say I was super discerning since my order page shows that I bought about […]

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8/1/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:18 |

Revenge Killing or Just Another White Guy Killing His Family as A Result of Economic Despair?

The Dry by Jane Harper

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Bingo Square: Far and Away I wish I had been more creative with this square and done something other than physical distance but I was in the mood for a murder mystery, and Australia is definitely one of those places I have never been close enough to seriously considering visiting.  Throw in rural Australia, and it’s even farther away. After twenty years away from his home town, Aaron Falk is back.  Tragedy forced him out of town, and tragedy has brought him back. Twenty years ago, Falk and his father left after local teen Ellie was found dead in the […]

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7/27/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:5 |

Big themes in a fun read

Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty

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This is the book that the acclaimed tv series is based on, and although I haven’t watched the show yet (it’s on my to-watch list), the novel makes a quick and entertaining read. Set in a quiet coastal suburb in Australia, the book centers on three mothers whose children are all starting kindergarten together.  Madelaine (Reese Witherspoon’s character in the show) is a feisty and entertaining center to the trio; she takes up battles against other playground moms while dealing with the frustrations of living in the same small community as her ex-husband and his new wife (Zoe Kravitz), whose […]

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4/22/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:13 |

Imagine a Studio Ghibli film as an 80s novel

The Nargun and the Stars by Patricia Wrightson

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The Nargun and the Stars won a Hans Christian Andersen medal, I’m assuming sometime in the seventies when it first came out.  My copy is the 1988 reprint and you can really tell based on the cover.  I can’t remember at all why and where I picked this up, but I’d bet it was because of the title, not the cover art.  Post-reading, I am, as usual, mostly bugged by the inaccuracies.  Oh well. So, based on the title, I’d have guessed this book would include either aliens or folklore, and I’d have been correct.  The Nargun is a fictitious […]

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11/25/2018 's CBR10 Review No:3 |

Racism is Racism, No Matter What Time Period

The Secret River by Kate Grenville

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Last summer I helped my boss chaperone his student study-abroad trip to Australia, and the class read this book on the plane going over. I was far more enticed with Air New Zealand’s extensive on-flight entertainment package, and so I spent my plane ride in the iron-a** challenge watching all six (extended) Lord of the Rings and Hobbit films instead.  Since returning, my boss has been passively placing The Secret River in obvious places on my desk, which I’ve learned is his silent way of saying it’s a book I really need to read. He’s adorable, my boss.  Bingo seemed […]

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10/29/2018 's CBR10 Review No:23 |


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