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Drama Queen

Antony & Cleopatra by William Shakespeare

November 6, 2022 by Wanderlustful Leave a Comment

Ah, Shakespeare- takes me right back to high school English class! (Truthfully though: I hadn’t read this play nor seen it performed, but the general strokes of the story were familiar.) Ready? Here goes: Marc Antony, the great Roman general, is uneasily sharing power with Octavius, Julius Ceaser’s nephew, and a third general, Lepidius. Antony has come to Egypt as part of the triumvirate’s previous battles against outside enemies and fallen in love with the seductive Egyptian Queen, Cleopatra. Now that the outside enemies have […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Antony & Cleopatra, cbr14bingo, drama, Play, Shakespeare, snake, william shakespeare

Wanderlustful's CBR14 Review No:18 · Genres: Uncategorized · Tags: Antony & Cleopatra, cbr14bingo, drama, Play, Shakespeare, snake, william shakespeare ·
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No more Tomorrow and I’m ok with that

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

November 6, 2022 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

Probably unpopular, or at least in the minority, review ahead; I did not especially enjoy Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow. The narrative style made it a little hard to tell the difference between Said and Sam’s perspectives, and given that the novel switches back and forth, giving them more distinctive voices would have been nice. They also have really similar personalities in a lot of ways; both have traumas in their pasts which the other sort of knows about but doesn’t seem to want to […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: drama, Gabrielle Zevin, historical fiction, tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow, video games

CoffeeShopReader's CBR14 Review No:79 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: drama, Gabrielle Zevin, historical fiction, tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow, video games ·
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“Olive’s not a hundred dollar bill. There are going to be people in her life who don’t like her.”

Act by Kayla Miller

Clash by Kayla Miller

November 4, 2022 by GentleRain Leave a Comment

I continue my slow acquisition of this series through random bookstore visits with Act and Clash. The series follows Olive as she learns various important lessons in middle school about friendship and standing up for what’s right. In Act, Olive finds out that some kids are unable to go on field trips because their parents can’t afford the extra cost. She decides to run for student council and this causes some turmoil in her friendships and requires her to learn how to get her message […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: drama, economic injustice, friendships, graphic novels, Kayla Miller, middle grade

GentleRain's CBR14 Review No:125 · Genres: Children's Books, Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: drama, economic injustice, friendships, graphic novels, Kayla Miller, middle grade ·
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A Loss of Innocence

Our Town by Thornton Wilder

October 23, 2022 by The Chancellor Leave a Comment

Our Town by Thornton Wilder My rating: 4 of 5 stars “Our Town” is one of those plays that takes you by surprise. I first read it in my master’s program in an “Modern American Drama” class. I had heard of the play but never read it. From the beginning, Wilder establishes that this play is unlike others of its time. The Stagemaster (narrator) constantly breaks the fourth wall but also interacts with the characters in the play. There’s audience participation (they’re plants from the […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: drama, Our Town, Thornton WIlder

The Chancellor's CBR14 Review No:16 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: drama, Our Town, Thornton WIlder ·
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Problem play indeed.

Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare

August 19, 2022 by narfna Leave a Comment

I will be honest with you here, and let you know that I barely remember this play. There were only a handful of Shakespeare’s plays that I made it out of school not having read, and this was one of them. I’ve been meaning to read it for years but never seemed to get around to it. Honestly, I wish I hadn’t read it, because at least there was a pleasing sense of mystery to it, with me wondering what it was about and only […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor Tagged With: British literature, comedy, drama, measure for measure, narfna, renaissance drama, Shakespeare, william shakespeare

narfna's CBR14 Review No:132 · Genres: Comedy/Humor · Tags: British literature, comedy, drama, measure for measure, narfna, renaissance drama, Shakespeare, william shakespeare ·
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“Just the same, Caroline, I think you should accept the fact you don’t really know the truth. I wonder if anyone does, or ever will.”

Silversword by Phyllis A. Whitney

July 31, 2022 by Pooja Leave a Comment

CBR 14 Bingo: Shadow In this book, the past casts long shadows, entangling the main character even in the present. Caroline Kirby, fresh off a divorce, returns to her childhood home in Hawaii, to the mother she had thought long dead and the mystery of her father’s death in a sacred volcano crater. I do like a certain flavor of vintage suspense books, with their gentle pace and their deep dark secrets. Here, the author set us up with a long ago mystery to solve, […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: cbr14bingo, drama, gothic, hawaii, mystery, Phyllis A. Whitney, Suspense, vintage

Pooja's CBR14 Review No:91 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: cbr14bingo, drama, gothic, hawaii, mystery, Phyllis A. Whitney, Suspense, vintage ·
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  • Leedock on Because when women understand chemistry, they begin to understand how things work.Soooo much better!
  • narfna on We are women without a voice…We are women out of time and place, without even the language of the country we reside in.Everything I hear about this makes me want to read it more. I've heard the audio is great, that's probably the route I'll go.
  • narfna on Because when women understand chemistry, they begin to understand how things work.The author hates the cover, too! I, like you, judged the book by the cover and was wrong. The British one is much better. https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61QJVdPaRWL.jpg...
  • narfna on Her grin was tiny but evil. Adorably evil, if that was a thing.TBRed!
  • Leedock on Maiden voyagesWelcome! A Marvellous Light worked better for me, but this was a good book. I'm looking forward to the last in the trilogy when, I...
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