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Join the CBR18 Book Bingo Reading Challenge—Now Underway!   

I’m not going far. I’ll always be here. Just an inch away. I promise. (listicle)

Five Feet Apart by Rachel Lippincott

July 19, 2019 by octothorp Leave a Comment

This was a book I didn’t know existed until it showed up on two lists, as though the universe wanted my Listicle bingo square filled.  Some website, probably Barnes and Noble, had a list of young adult books turned into movies, and as An Old, I had never heard of either the book or the movie. A coworker also had it in her to-be-read pile. As today was a slow day at work and I accidentally brought a book in today for my lunch break […]

Filed Under: Young Adult Tagged With: Book to movie, cbr2011bingo, listicle, rachel lippincott

octothorp's CBR11 Review No:54 · Genres: Young Adult · Tags: Book to movie, cbr2011bingo, listicle, rachel lippincott ·
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Lust and Wander (Rainbow Flag)

Lust and Wonder by Augusten Burroughs

July 19, 2019 by octothorp 1 Comment

My choice for my Rainbow Flag bingo space is Augusten Burroughs’ Lust and Wonder, another memoir from the author of Running With Scissors, Dry, and Magical Thinking. I love Burroughs’ earlier books, and there are flashes of brilliance here, but I think that this reads more like a diary than a cohesive book. Burroughs writes here about relationships both failed and successful, and his pattern of allowing his anxiety and neuroses to have him fall into familiar patterns of denying his feelings and attempting to […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Augusten Burroughs, cbr2011bingo, Rainbow Flag

octothorp's CBR11 Review No:53 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: Augusten Burroughs, cbr2011bingo, Rainbow Flag ·
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