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Audrey is Great. This Book? Not So Much. (CBR10Bingo)

Enchantment: The Life of Audrey Hepburn by Donald Spoto

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When we were voting for the AlabamaPink book club this book was my second choice (even though I don’t vote my first choice was Between the Bridge and the River and I’ll be talking about my feelings on that one in my next review) so choosing this for the Alabama Pink bingo square made perfect sense to me. I like biographies, Audrey Hepburn, and classic Hollywood – done and done. I am however left underwhelmed by the reading experience of this book. I think it can be attributed to the style of its author. Donald Spoto is a writer and […]

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10/14/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:49 |

There Was No Way I Was Going to Enjoy This One

Cardinal: The Rise and Fall of George Pell by Louise Milligan

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Cardinal George Pell is probably the highest profile Catholic back home in Australia – he’s the former Archbishop of Melbourne; former Cardinal Archbishop of Sydney; and the current Vatican Prefect for the Secretariat of the Economy. (Think of him as the Pope’s treasurer.) He’s easily the highest ranking Prelate of the Catholic Church to originate from Australia. He is also the highest ranking Cleric of the Catholic Church to be facing sexual assault charges. Huh, who would’ve guessed it would be going in that direction?   I’ve been holding off writing a review for this book because it was such […]

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10/14/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:27 |

An American Legend, Indeed

Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand

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CBR 10 Bingo Entry: The Book Was Better? I spent some time pondering what I’d like to read for the “Book Was Better” category for CBR  10 Bingo. With so many options, I was falling victim to decision paralysis, when a trip to my local library helped me solve the problem. While dropping off some books, I stopped into the Friends of the Library bookstore, not expecting to find anything. But then my eye was caught by a hardbound copy of Seabiscuit in excellent condition, for the bargain price of $3.50. I could never pass up a good deal on […]

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10/6/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:24 |

Because this is not a house for the faint of heart

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

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CBR BINGO: Farenheit 451 While I was fishing around trying to find a banned or controversial book for this review, I stumbled across several articles written in 2016 about a 15-year-old girl in a school district near me. When Jeannette Walls’ memoir, “Glass Castle” was removed from the 9th grade reading list at her school, this young woman was having none of it. She challenged her school district at a board meeting and very succinctly pointed out that the material that the parents were objecting to was regarding the treatment of  kids younger than the 9th graders who were being prevented […]

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9/19/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:48 |

The ten-dollar Founding Father without a father

Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow

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My first CBR 10 Bingo entry: Not my wheelhouse! I don’t read much history and I don’t read many biographies; an historical biography might be an actual first for me. I confess, I was swept away by the Hamilton Mania triggered by Lin-Manual Miranda’s fabulous musical about the founding father who grew up an orphan, immigrated to America, fought in the American Revolution, started the First Bank of the United States, and died as a result of a gunshot wound administered by Aaron Burr. Let’s face it, prior to Hamilton, the only reason most Americans had even heard about the […]

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8/12/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:17 |

Well I, see you got your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat

Edie: American Girl by Jean Stein

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Edie: American Girl by Jean Stein is apparently one of the classic books on the sixties. After reading it, I can see why it’s garnered so many accolades. Prior to picking this up, I only really had vague notions of who Edie was, that all centred around her position as muse/decoration to Andy Warhol. Painstakingly compiled from interviews from the many that knew her, whether they be family, friends, or hangers-on (both famous and non-famous) covering her family history, childhood, explosion on to the New York scene and her five minutes of fame, and her swift descent into drug addiction […]

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7/4/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:47 |

A sweet goodbye

On the Move by Oliver Sacks

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I have been a fan of Oliver Sacks and his writing for decades. When that first beautiful NYT article came out in early 2015 and revealed he was dying from cancer, I essentially hid my head in the sand and refused to read anything else from him for a long time. He was warm and kind and insightful and passionate and I just wasn’t ready to say goodbye. The day of Anthony Bourdain’s death, I walked into my library and On the Move was sitting there on the staff recommendations shelf and I knew it was time. It was just […]

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6/22/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:10 |

Killer Queen

Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men by Harold Schechter

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  I honest to the heavens thought I’d reviewed this one. The short version is: True crime fans/Murderinos will probably enjoy this one. I’m not sure anyone else will; the subject matter is pretty grim and the person in question warped like HH Holmes. Lizzie Borden may have killed her father and stepmother with an axe, but Belle Gunness killed a hell of a lot more, including her own children.

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6/21/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:7 |


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