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CBR11Bingo: Youths!

The Vanishing Stair by Maureen Johnson

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Maureen Johnson has contributed short stories to YA collections that I’ve read before, but The Vanishing Stair and its predecessor, Truly Devious, are the first stand-alone YA novels (Youths!) that I’ve read by her. The Vanishing Stair, in my opinion, really improves on the first book — mostly because it focuses solely on my favorite character, Stevie. However, you really need to read the first one before you read the sequel so go run and do that before you read my review. I’ll wait. “He looked a bit more confused by Stevie and David, but nodded politely. “I’m a watch ad,” David […]

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7/12/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:88 |

CBR11Bingo: Own Voices

Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot

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Terese Marie Mailhot is a First Nation Canadian from Seabird Island. In Heart Berries, she writes about her experience growing up on Seabird Island First Nation reservation (Own Voices) and how writing helped her through hospitalization as an adult due to post traumatic stress disorder and bipolar II disorder. It is a beautiful, painful book. “In white culture, forgiveness is synonymous with letting go. In my culture, I believe we carry pain until we can reconcile with it through ceremony. Pain is not framed like a problem with a solution. I don’t even know that white people see transcendence the […]

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7/12/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:87 |

CBR11Bingo: Reading the TBR

Maybe You Never Cry Again by Bernie Mac

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I added this book to my TBR on Aug 11, 2014 (Reading the TBR!), but couldn’t find a copy anywhere. I finally decided to just use an Audible credit on the audio version, and listened to it. Honestly, it was good but not really worth a 5 year wait. But at least that knocked one book off my TBR! “When you see people in terms of race or religion, that’s when the trouble starts. I don’t understand why people work so hard at pointing out our differences; we should be celebrating the things we have in common.” This book is […]

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7/12/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:86 |

CBR11Bingo: SCIENCE!

The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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Siddhartha Mukherjee is a physician, biologist, and oncologist, and this is a book all about genes — a massive and complicated area of science (science!) that he breaks down wonderfully for his readers. The audio book was 20 hours long. It took me an entire road trip to get through. I loved it. The subtitle of The Gene is An Intimate History, and intimate is right. This book is so incredibly detailed — he examines every single aspect of genes: how they affect our personalities, appearances, strengths, weakness, for our generation and the next. He also brings his own intimate […]

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7/12/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:85 |

Kate Waters is back!

The Suspect (Kate Waters #3) by Fiona Barton

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This is the third of Fiona Barton’s novels featuring a crime reporter named Kate Waters. Once again, she teams up with Detective Inspector Bob Sparkes to solve a case. This time, however, it hits close to home. Waters starts by looking into the disappearance of two British girls on holiday in Thailand. But soon she learns her own missing son may be involved. “Everyone wants to know the truth. Except those who don’t. Those who stand to lose by it.” I enjoyed this book, which I listened to on audio (I did the same for the other two in the […]

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7/11/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:84 |

CBR11Bingo: Cannonballer Says

The Huntress by Kate Quinn

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I read this on the recommendation of Caitlin_D (Cannonballer Says!) after we both thoroughly enjoyed Quinn’s first novel, The Alice Network. If I remember correctly, Caitlin simultaneously got the audio book and the hard copy from the library, started the audio book and told me to read her copy of the hardback so I could get to it sooner. She’s an American hero. The Huntress flips back and forth between two narratives. During WWII, Nina Markova escapes her violent father and a village in Soviet Russia to fly planes and drop bombs on Hitler’s eastern front as a Night Witch. She […]

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7/11/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:83 |

CBR11Bingo: True Story

Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love by Dani Shapiro

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In this memoir (True Story!), we meet author Dani Shapiro, who took a DNA test from a genealogy website — just for fun. But when the results came back, it shook her world. It turns out that her father was not her biological father. “After listening to my entire story, he quietly said: “You can say, “This is impossible, terrible.’ Or you can say, ‘This is beautiful, wonderful.’ You can imagine that you’re in exile. Or you can imagine that you have more than one home.” It’s a story that’s becoming more and more common. I actually have a friend […]

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7/11/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:82 |

CBR11Bingo: Far and Away

The Lost Man by Jane Harper

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I have read a couple of Jane Harper’s novels (The Dry and Force of Nature, both of which I’d recommend) and what I love about them is the setting: her books take place in Australia (Far and Away!) but not in the cities — they’re set in tiny little towns in the Outback, a place so massive and wild and dangerous that it’s basically its own character. “Life out here is hard. We all try to get through the best way we can. But trust me, there’s not a single person here who isn’t lying to themselves about something.” The book […]

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7/11/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:81 |


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