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How Long Can Hope Survive?

While I Was Sleeping by Dani Atkins

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Bingo Square Round 2: So Shiny lollygagger’s review of this one intrigued me, so I ended up picking it up.  I was reading this on my phone, and started another new book on my iPad but realized I was much more interested in this novel, and elevated it to my main read and thus Bingo selection. Before I got too far into this review, I checked the description on Amazon to see how much they give away, and this is one of the rare ones where the description doesn’t give much away from the get go, so I will follow […]

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10/20/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:181 |

Which of Your Lost Items Still Cause a Tinge of Regret?

The Keeper of Lost Things by Ruth Hogan

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Bingo Square (Round 2): Cannonballer Says! I thought Caitlin_D’s review was intriguing, and as much as I love fantasy, it’s been nice to incorporate some contemporary fiction back into my reading.  Oddly enough, this is the second novel I’ve read this year with short stories interlaced into the narrative, the other being Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows. Over forty years ago, Anthony’s fiancé died unexpectedly, and on the same day that Anthony lost Therese, he lost a final gift and keepsake she had given him only that morning.  As a result, he has started collecting lost items as he finds […]

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10/13/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:173 |

Nice guy ™ can’t get laid. Now featuring the entire history of the Dominican Republic.

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz

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What a great title for a book. What a shame that the book does not deal in either brevity or anything that resembles an account of Oscar’s life. This book was an absolute slog to get through. From the overt sexualization of women to the complete lack of plot there was nothing to be gained and certainly no connection to be made with any character. “The next day at breakfast he asked his mother: Am I ugly? She sighed. Well, hijo, you certainly don’t take after me. Dominican parents! You got to love them!” The book starts off promising, explaining […]

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10/10/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:36 |

Some small fumbles, but the good outweighs the bad. #CBRBingo

The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang

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Project: Catch Up On Review Backlog, review #9 out of 16 So basically, my thoughts on this book are that it made some entry level mistakes, but I enjoyed myself anyway, because it also did some things I really liked. I’ve been having trouble buckling down to actually write this review, so I’ll do what I always do when that happens. Wait 5,000 years to review it and then do a pro/con list. Let’s start with the stuff I didn’t like about it first, so we can end on a positive note! Didn’t like: How the central conflict between them […]

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8/22/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:99 |

This is going to make a really fun movie.

To All the Boys I've Loved Before (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #1) by Jenny Han

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This was one of those books I’ve seen around for years, and always thought I should pick it up, but just never got around to it. I’m glad the trailer of the Netflix movie adaptation came out when it did, though, and finally got me to try it out, because this was a very cute book and otherwise who knows when I would have given it a chance (I tend not to read contemporary very much). To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before follows Lara Jean Song, a sixteen year old biracial girl whose older sister (and substitute mother figure, practically) has just […]

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8/13/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:97 |

Becky Albertalli is three for three.

Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli

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As always with a Becky Albertalli book, I flew through it. I haven’t read an entire book in a night in quite a long time, but I felt compelled to keep going even though it got pretty late. And then I figured I might as well just finish it. No regrets here! A good time was had. I do think this is my least favorite of her three books, so far, though. Surprisingly, it has nothing to do with Leah herself. Leah is a tough character to like for me. I bounced off her a little bit in Simon vs. the […]

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7/11/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:83 |

The 50 You Didn’t Know You Needed

How to Bang a Billionaire by Alexis Hall

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How to Bang a Billionaire by Alexis Hall is like 50 Shades, if 50 Shades were Gay (do I have your attention now?) Actually set in the UK (no real American uses the word ‘clamber’) Main characters are both into BDSM (though this book doesn’t have much of it) Laugh out loud funny (intentional) Beautifully written (really) Profound (proof to come) Arden St. Ives is about to sit for his exams at Oxford (for Americans: he’s about to graduate from university, not just end the semester), when he takes the place of his sick roommate (sound familiar?) at a fundraising […]

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6/6/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:1 |

“Everything feels yes.”

Autoboyography by Christina Lauren

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I thought this was lovely, and I’m so glad I picked it up on a whim. I really only have two complaints. I had such a good time reading it, I put it on my wishlist immediately, and can see myself upping this to five stars in the future when maybe those complaints won’t matter as much to me. This is a young adult coming of age romance between two boys. One (Tanner) is a bisexual eighteen-year old whose family moved to Provo, Utah when he was only fourteen, and even though he was out where he lived in California, […]

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5/3/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:55 |


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