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Well, hell, I still don’t know what the perfect society looks like

The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

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CBR11bingo: Award Winner – Nebula Award for Best Novel (1974), Hugo Award for Best Novel (1975), Locus Award for Best Novel (1975) Double Bingo! Horizontal: I Love This, Not My Wheelhouse, Listicle, Rainbow Flag, Award Winner Vertical: Reading the TBR, Science!, History/Schmistory, Award Winner, Summer Read Last year I read my first Le Guin Novel, The Left Hand of Darkness, and couldn’t stop raving about it. On the advice of a fellow Cannonballer, I decided to read The Dispossessed for my Award Winner Square (tip for next year’s Bingo, Le Guin also works for “Birthday” assuming bingo spans October again). The plot […]

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10/26/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:47 |

The name I can never spell right on the first try

The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo

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This was a book I was sure I had read, because I feel like it’s been around forever.  Nope! 2003. (Maybe I saw the movie in 2008?) It feels like an older book as well. So if the author was going for a classic feel, she got it!  There is the story, but sometimes the author asks questions of the reader, often with vocabulary. Good for reading with a group!   The book is set up in four sections.  In the first part, we meet Despereaux, a very small mouse with very large ears.  He is marked as different from […]

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10/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:64 |

“No. There aren’t that many shows with SecUnits, and they’re either villains or the villain’s minions.”

Artificial Condition by Martha Wells

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When Artificial intelligence is brought up in fiction, the focus is often on the negative aspects, milking them for dystopian drama. The worst scenario of all involves an AI rebellion, where humanity’s own creations gain awareness and decide to turn against us. You know the one – everything is fine one moment, and then suddenly, Skynet is shiv-ving you. A more unconventional direction though is having an AI killing machine gain awareness and instead of rebelling, decides it wants to be alone for a bit. You know, so it can figure itself out? And maybe watch some videos, if you […]

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10/13/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:18 |

Bingo #4

Coraline by Neil Gaiman

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In an effort to read some spooky literature for this, the high holy season of Halloween, I went for one of my comfortable standbys, good old Neil Gaiman. Winning both the Hugo and the Nebula awards in 2003 and 2004 for best novella, Coraline deserves all the acclaim it received. Clocking in at only a little over 100 pages, Gaiman works his magic to build a terrifying little universe in a short space. Even though this book was in the children’s section of my library, I won’t lie that I was tense and uncomfortable in the best possible way throughout […]

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10/8/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:35 |

Some Young Adult to close out Bingo

Enchantee by Gita Trelease

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

The Lady Rogue by Jenn Bennett

The Lovely War by Julie Berry

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  Four more reviews to finish catching up on my backlog. CBR11Bingo squares for I Love This (Enchantee), Award Winner (Speak), Far and Away (the Lady Rogue) and Reader’s Choice over Own Voices (The Lovely War).   Enchantee (apologies, but I can’t figure out how to accent the ‘e’) is a beautifully written young adult romance. Set in Paris during the final days of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI’s excesses, it shows both the splendor of the rich and the desperation of the poor. Camille has been using magic to survive since the death of her parents. She has an […]

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9/28/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:63 |

Red Tinted Glasses and Painted on Time

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

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After reading this book I read an interview with the author in the back. In this interview she mentioned that her goal was to make a “completely unfilmable book.” I have to say that, at least in my opinion, she very much succeeded. I cannot imagine how this could ever be adapted without major changes of many kinds. This is the story of Estha and Rahel, two egg twins. It is also the story of their Ammu. It is also the story of an English girl meeting her family in India. It is also a family saga. It is also […]

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9/26/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:31 |

Opacities (Blackout Bingo, Award winners)

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

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Ok, I had half started this review for my penultimate bingo square, and then realized that I almost missed the opportunity to make this book LITERALLY TITLED ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE AND FEATURING A BLIND PROTAGONIST my blackout finish. Luckily I realized my error in time to finish strong. This book follows Marie-Laure, a girl with congenital cataracts which have left her blind, in Nazi-occupied France. Her father, a locksmith for the Museum, is one of four employees sent with a priceless gem and three decoys to various parts of the country to avoid it falling into enemy […]

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9/24/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:74 |

A quiet fantasy that speaks to the heart (#AwardWinner)

The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison

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One of the truly loveliest fantasies I read this year was The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison. This one came highly recommended to me on a facebook group where I asked for non-grimdark, political intrigue fantasy. The recommender really hit the mark, and I recommend it to any lover of fantasy! It’s steampunk but not in-your-face about it, bittersweet but not everything-is-s*** like grimdark, and it’s also an award winner! It won the 2015 Locus Award (and was also nominated for the 2014 Nebula and the Hugo 2015 awards). Since the Locus award is on the CBR list of approved awards, […]

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9/14/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:4 |


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