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Back for the Bingo!

The Magician's Nephew by CS Lewis

The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis

Too Much Is Not Enough: A Memoir of Fumbling Toward Adulthood by Andrew Rannells

The Atomic City Girls by Janet Beard

The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer

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8/12/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:71 |

“How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure.” (Remix) (OH, and double bingo)

Revenge by Stephen Fry

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(DOUBLE BINGO – corners and center, top left to bottom right I think the reason that this reworking of The Count of Monte Cristo works so well is because (at least per the afterword) Stephen Fry didn’t realize he was adapting the book until midway through writing it, thinking he was only writing a tale of the utter devastation of an innocent man and his revenge against those who had wronged him once he recovered from rock bottom.  I tend to believe this as I’ve done similar things – the unwitting plagiarism of having a good idea and realizing once […]

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8/9/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:60 |

Anne Perry Writes the Next Generation

Twenty-One Days by Anne Perry

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For my #cbr11bingo #summerread selection I have read Twenty-One Days, by one of my favorite crime novelists, Anne Perry. For years I have been reading (and awaiting the next release of) the Thomas and Charlotte Pitt series, set in Victorian England. In those books, Charlotte is an out-spoken woman born into Society, who marries for love well beneath her station. Thomas Pitt starts off as a police detective, but as the novels continue, moves up in job title and status (no spoilers as to where he ends up). One things that I love about the Pitt novels is how descriptive […]

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7/15/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:4 |

Been on my Backlog for a while, but sort of wish I’d never read it (BINGO 2!)

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

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Upon realizing that I could get a Bingo by filling in the ‘Backlog’ square, I went searching through my Kindle library for something I’d bought ages ago but never actually read. This resulted, a little oddly, in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. I’d bought it years back when it was quite popular, but never actually read it. For those who don’t know the story, it’s about a sixteen year old boy named Jacob who grew up on his grandfather’s strange stories and accompanying photos about odd people with strange powers. His grandfather is killed in unusual circumstances and Jacob seems […]

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11/16/2018 's CBR10 Review No:35 |

The Movie Was Better

Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan

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BINGO! Cannonballer Says, Listicles, Cannonbookclub, The Book Was Better?, Home, Something Home (Yay, I did it!) When my husband suggested we go see Crazy Rich Asians, a movie he had heard profiled on NPR, I just about fell out of my chair. We don’t go to the movies together. I think the last one we saw in the theatre together was XMen 3, which came out in 2006. So off we went, and we really loved it. It was funny, and warm, and charming, and the leading lady Rachel, and the leading man Henry were both very dashing and fun […]

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11/14/2018 's CBR10 Review No:11 |

Definitely not my wheelhouse, but thought-provoking nonetheless (BINGO finally!)

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

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Brave New World fills the Not My Wheelhouse square, which means… BINGO! At last! I didn’t actually know that much about Brave New World when I decided to read it (well, listen to the audiobook). I think I expected it to be more about struggling to bring down a dystopian system rather than struggling (or not) within a dystopian system. I didn’t expect a satire, and I didn’t really expect the end to be so hopeless. In a way, the satire aspect makes it even less my wheelhouse than I expected, but also probably more enjoyable. My husband had read it before me, but didn’t […]

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11/7/2018 's CBR10 Review No:34 |

Oh! To be sixteen once again

Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell

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  As a 16 yo, I didn’t experience a first love. A couple of crushes, but none of them were anything more than an occasional glance in the lift, or a quickening of pulse when they appeared in front of me. To read Rainbow Rowell describe it so minutely in normal-speak without being elaborate is a welcome peek into a world when feelings run amok, you barely understand what’s happening and yet you feel so much (so – much like my current mid-thirties, GOTCHA, dumb-ass emotions, ergh) – I love how she is able to weave music and the first […]

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10/9/2018 's CBR10 Review No:3 |


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