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2nd Bingo!

Good Omens: The Nice & Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman

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In preparation for the upcoming new Amazon series, I decided to reread “Good Omens.” It’s probably been about a decade since I picked this up the first time, and while there were many parts that I thoroughly re-enjoyed, there were other parts that let me down. And not because it’s bad, but just because we’re getting farther and farther away from many of the contemporary nuances and details that were hilarious in the 2000s. Sadly, as time marches on, much of the ironic nuance in the jokes and satire don’t make sense simply because we’re missing the contemporary background. Published […]

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11/15/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:26 |

The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

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Birthday/cbr10bingo  Sylvia Plath was born Oct. 27, 1932. Bingo #2 Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar is a semi-autobiographical novel about a young woman’s experience of depression and mental illness, her time in an institution and her slow journey back to wellness. It is also a commentary on the suffocating life of a young woman who wants more than life seems to offer her because of her class and gender. The Bell Jar was published in the UK in 1963, just before Plath committed suicide. The Bell Jar is the story of Esther Greenwood as told by Esther. She is a […]

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11/15/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:45 |

Bringing the Jackaby Series to a Close (Bingo #8)

The Dire King by William Ritter

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While I have a couple of series underway, there was only one where the final book was the only one I had left to read, so the This Is The End square was a simple choice. The Jackaby series is comprised of four books, Jackaby, The Beastly Bones, Ghostly Echoes, and The Dire King. I have absolutely enjoyed my time with the series over the past few years, but the fourth book was unfortunately the weakest. The Dire King continues the story of the Seelie and Unseelie War that is enveloping New Fiddleham. Abagail,  an independent, self-assured, feminist, and delightfully […]

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11/14/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:55 |

CBR Bingo (8 and 9) This Old Thing

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

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If “This Old Thing” hadn’t been a square on Bingo this year I could have easily gone my whole life without reading any Jane Austen, and I still haven’t seen any of her film adaptions. I read a lot of classic American literature in high school and college, including Great Gatsby, Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, several Steinbeck novels, The Scarlet Letter and even Moby Dick but I don’t think I was ever assigned anything from the other side of the pond while a student. I picked Pride and Prejudice because it seemed like the seminal Austen novel and I wanted to read something new for this square […]

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11/14/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:115 |

This didn’t even get me a bingo

The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

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Bingo Square: White Whale The House of the Spirits tells the story of three generations of the Trueba family. The patriarch Esteban and his wife Clara, who has ‘spiritual’ tendencies and foresees the future, their daughter Blanca who falls in love with a man her father despises, and Alba, the granddaughter Esteban adores. The book also covers the political upheavals of Chile and how that impacts the family. I haven’t read any Allende before, even though I’ve been meaning to, so this seemed a good opportunity for it. I am sorry to say I was disappointed – and often infuriated […]

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11/14/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:42 |

Sea Section seems like a perfectly reasonable name for a beach house.

Calypso by David Sedaris

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So I picked Calypso by David Sedaris as my “Brain Candy” square for CBR10 Bingo, which after reading it, seems like maybe not the best choice, because these short stories are a bit darker than usual. Sedaris’ sister Tiffany committed suicide in 2013, and this, his mother’s alcoholism, and a strange tumour growing on his side become the running topics in many of the stories in his first compilation in five years. Calypso is still hilariously funny, in exactly the ways you expect it to be. I’ve always had a soft spot for Sedaris and his entire family, mostly because they’re from North Carolina […]

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11/14/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:22 |

You know what sucks? Not this!

Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour by Bryan O'Malley

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This is the 6th and final book of the Scott Pilgrim volumes. I read only the final book, despite it being years since last revisiting the series*. I first read Scott Pilgrim in my early 20’s, back when I still believed in love and Michael Cera, but now I’m totally grown up and recognize Pilgrim for the whiny twat he is. PSYCH. I still love him. The Scott Pilgrim series tells the story of Scott who meets Ramona at a party and falls head over heels for her, but Ramona brings dangerous baggage in the form of seven evil exes […]

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11/14/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:41 |

An Unflinching Portrayal of Cycles of Trauma, But Not Without the Hope of Healing

The Outside Circle by Patti LaBoucane-Benson and Kelly Mellings

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First off I want to begin by giving a shoutout to my local library: there was an explosion deliberately set off at the building that holds the library last week (as well as suspicion of a potential shooting situation), which has caused a lot of shutdown in the area as investigations and structural assessment are ongoing. But the library continues to work hard to provide what services they can in spite of all of this, through popup locations, the bookmobile, etc. as well as provide as much comprehensive information on what services can and cannot be done (and how) at […]

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11/14/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:57 |


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