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I don’t enjoy being a hater, but I wish this book had remained a secret

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

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CBR11bingo: Listicle (Goodread’s Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once) The introductory blurb to The Secret Garden on Amazon reads, “Opening the door into the innermost places of the heart, The Secret Garden is a timeless classic that has left generations of readers with warm, lifelong memories of its magical charms.” I must be a much more cold-hearted bastard than anyone ever suspected and am likely to be doomed to the same circle of Hell as people who didn’t cry at the opening sequence of Up, because this book did nothing for me. Mary Lennox is a severely neglected English girl living […]

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10/13/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:46 |

Two Snow Whites, and two bingo squares!

Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs: A Tale from the Brothers Grimm by by Randall Jarrell (Translator), Nancy Ekholm Burkert (Illustrator)

Snow White in New York by Fiona French

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So my sister is getting her Master’s degree in Art Education.  She’s currently in a class about picture books (or something along those lines).  Her homework for this week was to compare three different versions of a picture book, so since I thought at least two of the three books would work for me for bingo squares, I joined her in reading the books for her homework.  We got my nine year old niece involved too.  She actually read the books aloud to us, which was awesome.  The two bingo squares I’m crossing off are Remix and Classics.  Here we […]

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9/28/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:43 |

Rings a Bell (bingo, classics)

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

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I may be the only person in the world to say this, but I somehow wasn’t the right age to read The Bell Jar – THE book about depressed young women navigating their way into adulthood from a charmed childhood – as a college student.  I think I needed the distance of adulthood to recognize myself in Esther Greenwood. I hated this book the first time I read it because I had emerged from a grief-induced depression the year before and none of Esther’s experiences seemed to match my own despair, but I somehow missed the metaphor of the anhedonia […]

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9/23/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:73 |

Some Classics Remain That Way

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

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Bingo Update: This is my Classics square. I don’t think I need to explain this one. This is not my first read, though I’ve discovered with the release of the trailer for the new film that it isn’t actually fair to assume that everyone has read this perennial favorite of young women everywhere. The upcoming film adaptation, one of many, inspired me to pick this up for the first time in more than a decade. I was not disappointed. Little Women tells the semi-autobiographical story of the March family: lovely and domestic Meg, stubborn and tempestuous Jo, peaceful and musical […]

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9/17/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:11 |

No less powerful when reading it 25 year later…

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

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CBR11 Bingo: Banned Books   In trying to decide what to read for the Banned Book square, I considered several options, but landed on re-reading this classic. The first time I read To Kill A Mockingbird was in my Grade 10 English class. I remember being shocked as an adult to hear that it was so often protested, because it was just accepted as a classic in my classroom twenty-five-ish years ago. Maybe a difference between where Canadians and Americans draw their lines in the literary sand? Much of the protest has been about the use of the n-word, which I suppose […]

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9/2/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:38 |

Requires Research

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

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I am (mostly) unashamed to admit that my first encounter with The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, or any of Mark Twain’s books, were not in school, but on my own accord after watching Disney’s 1995 “Tom and Huck.” I was twelve, smitten with the carefree, super hot (at least I thought so at the time) characters going on crazy adventures, and after the movie was over, I wanted more. I read Tom Sawyer first and loved it since the movie follows it fairly closely.  I started Huckleberry Finn immediately after, but ninety-nine percent of the book went over my head. Written in […]

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8/20/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:27 |

“It’s quite exciting,” said Sherlock Holmes, with a yawn.” (CBR11 Bingo)

A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

A Scandal in Bohemia by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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My previous Sherlock experiences have all centered around visual adaptations, starting with The Great Mouse Detective (1986), but #CannonBookClub is always pushing me to read new to me things. My mind’s eye had a very specific versions of Holmes and Watson cobbled together over many incarnations Watson, to me, is an intelligent everyman who is aware of the things he does not know – as well as being a man of responsibility and duty. Sherlock is a bit testy, has a bit of tunnel vision when it comes to solving a problem or getting information he needs and is how […]

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8/18/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:38 |

Better late than never for CBR? (Bingo Square: Classics)

A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

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I read A Study in Scarlet a few weeks ago to prepare for Cannonball Read and… forgot to review. So here’s my quick review before I dive into the discussion posts because I don’t want to be influenced. I’d read this before as a kid, when I went through a big Sherlock Holmes binge and read as many of the stories as I could get my hands on before I eventually got rather bored. Reading this now as an adult, I remember why I got bored–this one struggled to hold my interest. And this is one of the more exciting ones, in […]

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8/17/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:3 |


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