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A showgirl’s life

All the Beautiful Girls by Elizabeth J. Church

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This is a book that may not be for everyone – there are issues of child sexual abuse, self mutilation, drug addiction and some domestic abuse.  In saying that, it’s also a well written, powerful story of a young woman who has to battle her demons and come out of it into a better place.  It’s also a story that has strong female friendship among the glitz and glamour of old Las Vegas in the 1960s, which Ms Church portrays very well. It begins with eight year old Lily Decker finding herself as an orphan after a car crash kills […]

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5/3/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:20 |

Family.

We are all completely beside ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler

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The great thing about England is that there are book exchanges to be found everywhere. Free books after you’ve done your grocery shopping? Like. Could England be anymore unreal.   I’d seen some reviews for Karen Joy Fowler’s We are all completely beside ourselves I don’t remember the reviews per se, just a sense of good reviews and a very yellow cover. So I picked it up at my local tesco’s   and it sat in my TBR pile for quite a while.   Until I got my heart broken.   I wanted sappy movies on Netflix and found and […]

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3/19/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:6 |

Not as exciting as I expected

Commonwealth by Ann Patchett

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The book’s summary made it sound like there was going to be a lot more intrigue and many more characters. It talks about how one incident impacts generations of these two families but, really, it’s just the parents at their children. So from the get-go, this is not a “generational novel” (like Salt Houses which, yes, I am still going on about). It’s just a drama. It is set in Virginia but it starts in California so it’s completely okay if you’re confused on that at first. It’s also not as good as Bel Canto which I read probably a decade ago […]

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2/5/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:9 |

It’s gross you guys.

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

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Lolita is a narrative that permeates pop culture, in advertisements, references and romanticizing of things that are not okay. This narrative probably originates from the 1997 film adaptation starring Jeremy Irons:   When I was a teenager this novel was a way to live out my own sexuality and confused feelings about adults around me. These adults were mostly male teachers making Humbert Humbert the perfect stand-in. However engaging with this story as an adult is a bit different. It’s gross you guys. Lolita is the story of a man who abducts a child and then repeatedly rapes her while […]

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1/20/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:3 |

I didn’t care for it, but I couldn’t put it down

What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty

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I’m going to preface my CBR by saying that I am a book snob. I have referred to Dan Brown books as “entry level”. When it comes to books, my boyfriend says I am everyone he hates on the internet (I think he means it fondly?). So. Yeah. And I read Big Little Lies and holy smokes did I love that book. My whole book club loved that book, we talked about literally nothing else the whole night we met and how often does that happen? But then my mom saw Liane Moriarty on my library list and said something […]

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1/3/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:1 |

This might be too smart for me.

The Real Inspector Hound and Other Plays by Tom Stoppard

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I am honestly not entirely sure what I thought of this? (NB: I only read The Real Inspector Hound, not any of the other plays.) On the one hand, it was a fun little one act play that took me around twenty minutes to read, and it made me laugh, and it made me go, what the hell? On the other hand, I’m 100% positive I missed things, and the cleverness of this play almost entirely went over my head. All I could think of to say in our CBR book club discussion was a bunch of pretentious bullshit about the […]

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12/30/2017 's CBR9 Review No:126 |

Well, I think I’ll go and oil my gun.

The Real Inspector Hound by Tom Stoppard

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Opening salvo, hot take: everything Tom Stoppard has ever written is incredible; this isn’t his best work. The Real Inspector Hound is the first live production of a Stoppard play I ever saw, followed about a year and a half later by Arcadia. So, I will always be grateful to Hound for preparing me, because otherwise Arcadia might have melted my brain, and working directly with Tom (humblebrag) on The Coast of Utopia would have been the actual death of me. Hound is a delight. It takes on the absurdity of the business of criticism and the entitlement of understudies […]

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12/13/2017 's CBR9 Review No:47 |

Fave play is fave

Much ado about nothing by William Shakespeare

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“None but libertines delight in him.” Claudio and Hero love each other and want to get married. Beatrice and Benedick….well that’s what the play is about. Look this play makes no fucking sense what-so-ever. I mean, why is Hero wooed by someone else, in a mask? Why the fuck does Dogberry stumble around? And Claudio is dickweasel numero uno for believing Don John whatshisface…who meddles to actually give the play a plot. But then again, this is much ado about nothing so it does make sense that literally nothing of consequence happens. Don’t care. I love me this play, because […]

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11/25/2017 's CBR9 Review No:37 |


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