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“Me! But nobody likes me best!”

A Vicarage Family by Noel Streatfeid

October 10, 2022 by GentleRain Leave a Comment

CBR14Bingo: Holiday (lots of holidays in this book) Another clearly beloved British children’s classic that I missed as a kid. A Vicarage Family is about (shockingly) a vicar’s family. More specifically it follows Vicky, the stand-in for Streatfeild, as she grows up during the Edwardian era. Isobel is artistic, Louise is pretty, Dick is the baby, and their cousin John is smart, but Vicky is always getting in trouble and doesn’t excel at anything. Her own strong sense of being wronged lead to her constantly […]

Filed Under: Children's Books Tagged With: cbr14bingo, childhood, childhood's end, edwardian, Noel Streatfeid, sibling rivalry

GentleRain's CBR14 Review No:92 · Genres: Children's Books · Tags: cbr14bingo, childhood, childhood's end, edwardian, Noel Streatfeid, sibling rivalry ·
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The Shadows by Alex North

The Shadows by Alex North

December 15, 2021 by msvreadsbooks Leave a Comment

I read this book a month and a half ago, and it seems like a lot has happened since then… I cannot remember all the things I thought while reading this book, but I gave it 4 stars, so I must have liked it. This books follows a man named Paul who has returned to his hometown to care for his ailing mother. Being back home brings back memories of his friendship with some local boys – James, Charlie, and Billy. The latter two are […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: alex north, childhood, horror, murder, mystery, terror

msvreadsbooks's CBR13 Review No:50 · Genres: Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: alex north, childhood, horror, murder, mystery, terror ·
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Definitely one of the oddest childhood memoirs I’ve read

Germs: A Memoir of Childhood by Richard Wollheim

September 3, 2021 by elderberrywine Leave a Comment

Bingo Square Rep But not what you think.  Let Wollheim explain. “. . . such was the hope, I would, in saying one thing after another after another after another, each with a grain more of truth to it than its predecessor, come to spill the beans: I might, if only the ear stayed steady, and that was another hope, find myself, with one broad archaic gesture, scattering the germs.” Wollheim was born in England between the two wars to a German Jewish theatrical producer […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Book Club, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: childhood, England between the Wars, on the spectrum, Richard Wollheim, Visual Fragments

elderberrywine's CBR13 Review No:16 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Book Club, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: childhood, England between the Wars, on the spectrum, Richard Wollheim, Visual Fragments ·
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“I thought how great it would be if we could trade in Fudge for a nice cocker spaniel.”

Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume

June 19, 2021 by ardaigle Leave a Comment

Okay people. I think the last three reviews I have written start with hand-wringing about being behind in reviews. This time is no different. Except for how I am determined, or should I say DETERMINED to get caught up. I have a twisted process in that I don’t like to keep reading if I haven’t reviewed, so now I’m in this twisted merry-go-round of I want to read, but I’m behind in reviews, but I’m more behind than I’ve been in a bit so it […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor Tagged With: brothers, CannonBookClub, childhood, family, judy blume, new york

ardaigle's CBR13 Review No:21 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor · Tags: brothers, CannonBookClub, childhood, family, judy blume, new york ·
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The pale pink cover of "Breasts and Eggs" held up in front of a large bookcase

“What if you have a child, and that child wishes with every bone in her body that she’d never been born?”

Breasts and Eggs by Meiko Kawakami

January 2, 2021 by zinka 4 Comments

The inside cover of Mieko Kawakami’s Breasts and Eggs is extremely misleading. I don’t think I usually put a lot of faith in the short descriptions that live on the insides or backs of books, so I guess normally this wouldn’t have bothered me, but I received Breasts and Eggs as a gift and knew only one thing about it when I unwrapped it: the book had been featured on a very short list of recent stellar stories that contained asexual protagonists. So maybe that’s […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: asexuality, childhood, conception, Fiction, Meiko Kawakami, parenthood, reproduction

zinka's CBR13 Review No:1 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: asexuality, childhood, conception, Fiction, Meiko Kawakami, parenthood, reproduction ·
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A country without a language is a country without a soul

The Speckled People: A Memoir of a Half-Irish Childhood by Hugo Hamilton

September 21, 2020 by tillie Leave a Comment

The speckled people is a memoir of a childhood in Ireland in the 1950’s, growing up between languages. Hugo’s mother is a german emigrant and his father is an Irish nationalist determined that his children will revive the Irish language. Hugo himself is just a boy who wants to fit in with the other kids – who all speak English. The book is written in a soft language, floating in and out of the memories of a young boy. His father is a brutal tyrant […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir Tagged With: #memoir, autobiography, cbr12bingo, childhood, Hugo Hamilton, Irish, The Speckled People, tilliereads

tillie's CBR12 Review No:2 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: #memoir, autobiography, cbr12bingo, childhood, Hugo Hamilton, Irish, The Speckled People, tilliereads ·
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