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Sugary sweet summer read

The Bride Test by Helen Hoang

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Bingo Square: Listicle When I saw the Listicle category, I figured the easiest way to find a list with something I wanted to read would be to google “Best Books of 2019” or “Summer Reads for 2019,” and Cosmopolitan came through for me.  It had a few novels I had already read and enjoyed, a few that were already on my to read list, and has given me a few more novels to keep an eye out for.  The Bride Test fell into the second category for me, one of those books I knew I would eventually read because I […]

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7/29/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:9 |

An adventure of a life time (or at least for one red stroller)

The Little Red Stroller by Joshua Furst

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The Little Red Stroller is a unique idea for sharing, caring, learning about community and diversity. Joshua Furst takes us on an adventure of a life time. Or at least, the life time of one special red stroller. We first see a mother holding her young baby and off in the background, a red stroller that will take mom and baby on many adventures. Then one day, they meet another family in need of a stroller, and that now-not-so young baby, tells them to take her stroller. She is too big for it. And off it goes to start a […]

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5/28/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:184 |

Princess Sparkle Destroyer of Worlds

Sanity and Tallulah by Molly Brooks

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What sort of mischief would two tweens who grew up on a space station get into? Why, inventing new species and saving the day of course! Sanity and Tallulah are best friends and children of VIPs on board their space station home. Sanity is the smarty pants who spends her time experimenting and futzing with mechanics, usually on the sly and not quite in the realm of what her parents would allow. Tallulah is along for the ride, though she prefers gushing over their favorite comics and avoiding homework. When one of Sanity’s experiments appears to be dismantling the space […]

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1/7/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:2 |

Standalone fantasy novels are rare and precious. This one was not bad.

Starless by Jacqueline Carey

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Khai was destined from birth to become the Shadow of the Sun-blessed princess Zaryia. Both born during the same eclipse, Khai was the child who caught the hawk’s feather thrown by the selected priestess, thus confirming that he was the chosen one. Raised by warrior priests deep in the desert, Khai is trained in all the deadly arts of stealth and fighting, and gets his first chance to kill a man at age nine. He hones all his abilities to become the very best Shadow to his soul’s twin, destined to guard and protect her against all evil. Yet when […]

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12/27/2018 's CBR10 Review No:107 |

You never conjure where you carve….whoops! Wrong Brave….

Berrybrook Middle School Book Two Brave by Svetlana Chmakova

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This year’s goal was to count every book I read (why a lot of picture book reviews) and to see if I can get to 500 books because of it. Due to the fact some books I could not write reviews for them, they did not make it here, but I am almost at 500. And one reason is Brave book two in the Berrybrook Middle School series by Svetlana Chmakova. While a stand-alone title, I recommend reading Awkward first. Brave is the trials of getting through middle school through the eyes of one less-than-cool-geeky-art-loving-kid named Jensen. Good kid, not […]

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11/26/2018 's CBR10 Review No:437 |

#CBR10 Bingo: Underrepresented – Let’s Talk About Love

Let's Talk About Love by Claire Kann

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#CBR10Bingo: Underrepresented Alice’s girlfriend dumps her because she can’t really handle the fact that Alice is asexual and while she’s perfectly willing to engage in sexual acts to please her girlfriend, she herself doesn’t really get much out of it. Dumped and heartbroken, Alice swears off dating entirely. She moves into the spare room at the apartment of her two best friends (who are a couple) and is determined to power through the summer enjoying good food, binge watching TV and working at the library. The only problem? There’s a new guy, Takumi, working at the library and he makes […]

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8/16/2018 's CBR10 Review No:60 |

The Day You Begin

The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson

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Jacqueline Woodson and Rafael Lopez combine their talents in The Day You Begin. The story is how a classroom of children feel like outsiders in their classroom. Told through poetic text, Woodson shows how these two children learn they are not alone. We have all probably felt like Rigoberto and Angelina at least once in our lives. Due to our names, accent, being the new kid at school, at church or another event. Perhaps we are not good at a particular sport or subject or we like an unusual food. Or perhaps we, like Rigoberto, we are an immigrant. This […]

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5/21/2018 's CBR10 Review No:159 |

An Ideal Set in Motion is a Dangerous Thing

Hamilton's Battalion: A Trio of Romances by Rose Lerner, Courtney Milan, Alyssa Cole

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The United States has never lived up to it’s stated ideals of equality and freedom. It hasn’t even always struggled towards those ideals. Right now, there is a strong push to move backwards. The resistance to moving towards a white supremacist, patriarchal land of the wealthy is also strong. Rose Learner, Courtney Milan, and Alyssa Cole have fired their own shots in the beautiful short story collection, Hamilton’s Battalion: A Trio of Romances. We make a lot of arguments about diversity and representation, but it is so much easier to indulge in what is familiar, even if it induces uncomfortable […]

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10/24/2017 's CBR9 Review No:100 |


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