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Would have liked there to be a stronger romance element

The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman

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4.5 stars From Goodreads, because it’s been over a month since I finished this: The only child of a single mother, Nina has her life just as she wants it: a job in a bookstore, a kick-butt trivia team, a world-class planner and a cat named Phil. If she sometimes suspects there might be more to life than reading, she just shrugs and picks up a new book. When the father Nina never knew existed suddenly dies, leaving behind innumerable sisters, brothers, nieces, and nephews, Nina is horrified. They all live close by! They’re all—or mostly all—excited to meet her! […]

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9/23/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No: 67 |

A Beautiful Dropkick to the Heart

The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry: A Novel by Gabrielle Zevin

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Alias is one of those tv shows that I just missed. Never really thought about it until 15 years after it debuted. I knew people watched it, I knew it was a thing, but I didn’t watch it. This summer, though, I started checking out all of the Alias DVDs at the library on a whim. Since then, I’ve become something of a Jennifer Garner completionist. This coincided nicely with my quest to become a Timothy Olyphant completionist. They co-starred in a rom-dramedy (?) called Catch and Release. This book is kind of like that movie. It’s funny, sometimes it’s […]

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8/26/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No: 33 |

Darkly Enchanting

The Binding by Bridget Collins

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It’s been a long time since a book has really grabbed me and not let go until the end. I’m a slow reader these days, usually taking 2 – 3 weeks to finish a book since I only read at night before bed. But The Binding demanded my time. I read it everywhere, foregoing all kinds of adulting in favor of immersing myself in Collins’ world, and I finished it in about 3 days. In the world of The Binding, there are people who have the power to take unwanted memories and transfer them into books. While some binders see their […]

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8/3/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No: 23 |

Join Thomas on his adventure in a book . . . inside a book . . . inside a book

The Book in the Book in the Book  by Julien Baer

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The Book in the Book in the Book  is a clever book. And while the idea has been done before, Julien Baer and Simon Bailly presents it in a new format. When Thomas wanders off while spending a day on the beach with his family, he finds a book about a boy named Thomas who is having a day on the winter slopes. He too, wanders off and finds a book about a boy named Thomas who is a having a day out in outer space…. How long will this go? And will Thomas get back to his family? The […]

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4/15/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No: 123 |

Proud to be a Book Hog!

The Book Hog by Greg Pizzoli

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The Book Hog has a particularly odd cover that at first made me think this was going to be a very weak book. It was going to have a particular story (slapstick for no reason).  However, I did enjoy it.  And while the artwork is still not my thing, it has a certain charm to that works well with the story. Greg Pizzoli has created a book about how one Hog is a Book Hog. He loves books. Loves the way they smell. The way they feel in his hooves. He loves the ones with pictures best. He loves reading […]

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3/27/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No: 95 |

The Book is more Interesting than the Content

The Enemies of Books by William Blades

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I picked this book up in an antique bookstore in Tokyo. I bought it mostly for the title, expecting a history of censorship, which is a topic I’ve always been interested in. What I got was more literally interpretation of enemies. Blades covers fire, water, vermin and dust as if they are free thinking enemies actively planning the destruction of books. His focus is entirely on the books as items that carry knowledge and not as special items in themselves. He says, “The value of books, as of other things, may be superstitiously overrated. We are accustomed to speak of […]

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3/20/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No: 4 |

Books about books, dance, reporters and scuba diving!

Various books by James Dean, Victoria Kann, Herman Parish

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Last night, I was looking at the box of (sadly) damaged books at work. I saw four I Can Read books. I have not read one in a while, so I picked them up. They average out to be a 2.5 for the four, but kids will enjoy and will be 5’s down the board. My biggest complaint with easy readers is companies do not have a uniform rating system. Publisher X might have these at a Level 1 but another would have them as a “My First” level. Or one has it at Level 2 and another will have […]

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Madness, Illness, Grief, and The Haunting of Hill House

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

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Beware of mild spoilers … I recently finished watching The Haunting of Hill House on Netflix. But it is still with me. It was at times an uncomfortable watch, but it also may be one of the best things I’ve seen in a long time. It can’t really be called an adaptation of the immortal Shirley Jackson novel. That classic book could be considered more of a jumping-off point for this, an original, deeply-felt horror story. The original novel, first published in 1959, concerns a group of disparate people who have come together to study a house with a bad, […]

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