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The worst chosen one who’s ever been chosen

Carry On by Rainbow Rowell

October 27, 2019 by Carriejay Leave a Comment

Bingo Square: I Love This Simon Snow is the Chosen One. He has been prophesized throughout the ages as the greatest of all the mages but most of the time he has no idea what he’s doing. During the school year he lives at the Watford School of Magicks and gets by a lot of the time with help from his best friend, Penny. He has an evil roommate who is also possibly a vampire, a girlfriend who may like said vampire, and a nemesis […]

Filed Under: Young Adult Tagged With: crb11bingo, Rainbow Rowell

Carriejay's CBR11 Review No:47 · Genres: Young Adult · Tags: crb11bingo, Rainbow Rowell ·
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“I’m an ordinary person who found herself on an extraordinary journey”

Becoming by Michelle Obama

October 21, 2019 by Carriejay Leave a Comment

Bingo Square: Far and Away Michelle Obama takes us on the journey through her life, from her happy childhood on the South Side of Chicago, through her college years at Princeton and Harvard, her early career as a lawyer and her yearning for something more, to meeting her husband at her law firm when he was a law student and she was his mentor. We get to see them fall in love and weather some distance apart, as well as the struggles she felt throughout […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir Tagged With: crb11bingo, Michelle Obama

Carriejay's CBR11 Review No:46 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: crb11bingo, Michelle Obama ·
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