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Life in China back when that seemed like a fun idea

Apologies to My Censor by Mitch Moxley

October 31, 2021 by Wanderlustful Leave a Comment

Travel is one of my passions, and I used to read the long form journalism on a webpage called Roads and Kingdoms quite frequently. One of its editors/contributors was a Canadian named Mitch Moxley, so when I saw Moxley had written a book about China I was intrigued. Moxley lived in China for 5ish years in the years leading up to and following the 2008 Beijing Olympics and Apologies to My Censor is his account of his time in the city. He sets things out […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir Tagged With: Apologies to my Censor, Beijing, cbr13bingo, cityscape, Mitch Moxley

Wanderlustful's CBR13 Review No:35 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: Apologies to my Censor, Beijing, cbr13bingo, cityscape, Mitch Moxley ·
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Some Audible Originals

Sweet Talk by Cara Bastone

What the Hex by Alexis Daria

The Magic Flower Shop by Gina Mayer

October 31, 2021 by crystalclear Leave a Comment

Sweet Talk By Cara Bastone   This story was absolutely adorable and I loved it!     The main premise is that Elliot sends a voice message text at 2 a.m. to a wrong number.  JD (not her real name, but what she’s referred to for most of the story) is already awake to receive said voice text.  She responds, and they go back and forth before Elliot realizes that he hasn’t been talking to his sister.  JD knows who Elliot is immediately – she had […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Children's Books, Fantasy, Fiction, Romance Tagged With: Alexis Daria, Cara Bastone, CBR13, cbr13bingo, Children's, cityscape, Flora, Gina Mayer, landscape, magic, Romance, the children's book probably should have been in a different post, three very different books

crystalclear's CBR13 Review No:19 · Genres: Audiobooks, Children's Books, Fantasy, Fiction, Romance · Tags: Alexis Daria, Cara Bastone, CBR13, cbr13bingo, Children's, cityscape, Flora, Gina Mayer, landscape, magic, Romance, the children's book probably should have been in a different post, three very different books ·
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“Don’t you think it’s possible that this could be good? That maybe this won’t lead to disaster after all? What if we find out that we fit together, like your grandparents and their hands?” (Bingo #8)

Blackout by Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, Nicola Yoon

October 23, 2021 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

Blackout is a novel comprised of several short stories covering five hours in the course of one night in New York as it experiences a blackout. Tiffany D. Jackson writes The Long Walk which is broken up into five acts, Nic Stone contributes Mask Off (perhaps my favorite of the bunch), Ashley Woodfolk’s Made to Fit, Dhonielle Clayton provides All the Great Love Stories… and Dust, as well as being the person who sparked the project into existence, Angie Thomas’s No Sleep Till Brooklyn, and […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance, Short Stories, Young Adult Tagged With: Adaptation Coming, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, Black love, blackout, cbr13bingo, cityscape, Dhonielle Clayton, Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, Nicola Yoon, nic stone, nicola yoon, queer love, read harder challenge, read women, Tiffany D. Jackson, we need diverse books, young love

faintingviolet's CBR13 Review No:49 · Genres: Fiction, Romance, Short Stories, Young Adult · Tags: Adaptation Coming, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, Black love, blackout, cbr13bingo, cityscape, Dhonielle Clayton, Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, Nicola Yoon, nic stone, nicola yoon, queer love, read harder challenge, read women, Tiffany D. Jackson, we need diverse books, young love ·
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bingo

A recommendation that was a good change of pace

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

October 16, 2021 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

Cityscape: there’s the city of Saint-Malo on the front! I originally had this as a four star novel, but I’ve knocked it down to three stars due to Doerr’s use of short, different-POV chapters to generate suspense, which I’ve come to realize it’s one of my least favorite mechanisms to generate suspense and tension. And in a book like this–where we are in literal Nazi occupied France, late stages of war–it’s almost unnecessary. But it does let you elongate smaller sections of action into more […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Anthony Doerr, cbr13bingo, cityscape

wicherwill's CBR13 Review No:126 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Anthony Doerr, cbr13bingo, cityscape ·
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Walter Shows off tricks, and causes trouble

Walter Does His Best, and so do the rest of us

Walter Does His Best by Eva Pilgrim

September 21, 2021 by NTE Leave a Comment

In Walter Does His Best by Eva Pilgrim, Walter is a good dog, or at least he tries really hard to be. Kids will enjoy his misadventures – digging in the neighbor’s garden, giving up his seat on the subway, helping ducks to cross the street – even though his owner certainly does not. As each of Walter’s attempts to help go ever more and more awry, the illustrations and text get more outrageous, and more hilarious – the page where Walter tries to impress […]

Filed Under: Children's Books Tagged With: cbr13bingo, cityscape, Cute, dogs, Eva Pilgrim, frenchie, humor, morals, onomatopoeia, picture book, walter does his best

NTE's CBR13 Review No:34 · Genres: Children's Books · Tags: cbr13bingo, cityscape, Cute, dogs, Eva Pilgrim, frenchie, humor, morals, onomatopoeia, picture book, walter does his best ·
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“So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?”

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

September 8, 2021 by ElCicco Leave a Comment

Cbr13bingo Cityscape, bingo #4 Row 1 The Pulitzer-Prize winning novel All the Light We Cannot See, set during WWII, is the story of two teenagers who share an unusual connection. Marie-Laure Leblanc is blind and trying to survive the war in St. Malo, France. Werner Pfennig is an orphan with a genius for math and engineering in Zollverein, Germany. While they are on opposite sides of the war, they share a love of science, knowledge, and the world. Yet when we meet them, during the […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History Tagged With: #history, All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr, CBR13, cbr13bingo, cityscape, ElCicco, Fiction

ElCicco's CBR13 Review No:49 · Genres: Fiction, History · Tags: #history, All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr, CBR13, cbr13bingo, cityscape, ElCicco, Fiction ·
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