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Agatha Christie, Eat Your Heart Out

Fire Will Freeze by Margaret Millar

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Agatha Christie is considered the godmother of the cozy mystery, even though her books are tonally different than the cozies of today. If you’re not familiar with the cozy mystery: quaint country side, quirky-but-endearing characters, random corpse, a place where murder rarely happens. Nowadays, people dress up cozies with animals and recipes but when Christie was writing them, they had a tinge of the hardboiled in them. Not much; Christie will never be confused for Raymond Chandler. But just enough. I don’t know if Margaret Millar’s Fire Will Freeze is a critique or satire of Christie’s work (which was popular at the […]

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8/20/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:81 |

Why I Stan for Jackie Lau

Man vs Durian (Baldwin Village, Book 3) by Jackie Lau

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As Malin pointed out, I have reviewed a lot of Jackie Lau this year. I discovered her this year. I am a binger by nature. She has a nicely priced back catalog. She has sent me a couple of ARCs. I really like her books. I did receive Man vs. Durian as an ARC in exchange for an honest review. Peter So hates the smell of durian, a Malaysian fruit known for it’s hard, prickly shell, pungent smell and creamy taste. Valerie Chow loves the taste of durian. When they meet, they run into each other and Valerie gets durian […]

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8/2/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:54 |

And so the journey to finding oneself begins

A Girl Called Echo V01 Pemmican Wars by Katherena Vermette

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#cbr11bingo #AndSoitBegins One of my jobs at the bookstore is to process our special orders. When I saw someone had ordered A Girl Called Echo V01 Pemmican Wars, I was intrigued. I had never heard of it. I did not know the author, Katherena Vermette, or the illustrator, Scott B. Henderson. That was not unusual, as I am not familiar with most graphic novel authors and/or illustrators, but one would have thought this book might have come up in searches for minority characters, characters who are gay, or people who are abled different. Perhaps this is because of how much […]

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7/17/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:278 |

“This book is meant to free, not capture, a life” ~ Lindberg

Birdie by Tracey Lindberg

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CBR11 Bingo – Own Voices   When it comes to diversifying my reading list, I’m trying to be more intentional about including voices from Canadian Indigenous communities.  Canada, for all its wonderful awesomeness, has an atrocious history (and even current relationship) with its Indigenous population – and so often, has kept so much of it quiet. Stories keep coming to light now about the horrors that ripped these families apart, the way entire communities were destroyed, and yes, despite what many of our politicians say, it IS appropriate to label it as genocide. Canadian history as taught in public schools […]

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7/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:26 |

“Honey girl, I don’t care what you do, as long as you’re kind to everyone you meet.”

Saga, Volume 9 by Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples

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I’ve been putting off reading the latest volume of Saga since I had heard it was devastating and that there would be at least a year hiatus until Vaughan and Staples picked back up working on this. Why sit with whatever terrible, soul crushing experience was waiting for me for over a year when I could just live with not knowing for the same amount of time? Well, I abandoned that perfectly solid plan and gave in to temptation. It was just sitting there in my living room waiting for me and I’m not entirely made of stone.  I read […]

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6/30/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:30 |

Beware Windigo

Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice

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You know how there’s that trope in the end of the world book where the city folk go up north, usually at the end of the book, to find a new place to live? They’re expecting it to be quiet, or full of people who just live off the land, and yet curiously no one ever seems to meet a First Nations person? I’ve long thought about that and what happens when the city folk start to migrate north. This book actually approaches the question of the people who live up north, and what happens when civilization as we know […]

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6/29/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:15 |

Romance and Reproductive Choice

Not Another Family Wedding by Jackie Lau

The Ultimate Pi Day Party by Jackie Lau

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Around the time the Alabama Anti-Abortion bill passed, there was a conversation on twitter about romances that dealt with abortion in a positive/normalizing manner. You can find many of the tweets with #RomanceforRoe. It’s most often been treated as a moral issue instead of a healthcare issue, and that should go out the door with slut shaming. A few readers and authors chimed in with books that addressed abortion as a healthcare choice that didn’t ruin the main character’s life. Canadian author Jackie Lau pointed to two of her books which dealt with abortion, and luckily I was planning to […]

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6/1/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:36 |

🦄 🍦 🍆 🍑

Ice Cream Lover by Jackie Lau

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I read Ice Cream Lover twice in one day. The joke in the title is that Drew hates ice cream and Chloe owns an Asian ice cream shop called Ginger Scoops. I 100% want an Asian ice cream store close by so that I too can have ginger ice cream in a bubble waffle cone. After reading two of Jackie Lau’s books, I’m going to need her to come out with a cookbook soon too. Ice Cream Lover is out May 21. I received this ARC in exchange for an honest review. Drew has been single since his fiance left him at the […]

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4/30/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:23 |


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