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Detective Novel from Morocco, kind of a mixed bag

Whitefly: A Novel by Abdelilah Hamdouchi

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Whitefly is a short detective novel by Moroccan writer Abdelilah Hamdouchi. Hamdouchi writes crime fiction and has had success as a screen writer of police thrillers. This novel was first published in Arabic in 2000 and translated by Jonathan Smolin in 2016. It is a noir-ish story of bodies washed up on the shore in Tangier. Are the deaths related? And why does one of the bodies have gunshot wounds? Detective Khalid Ibrahim, aka Laafrit, must rely on his instincts and connections both in the police world and on the gritty streets of Tangier to find the gun and piece […]

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12/8/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:50 |

Holiday Book Exchange!

Our Lady of the Ruins by Traci Brimhall

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Thank you, Bonnie!! I’m looking forward to reading some poetry (for the first time in a long time) over the holidays. And a classic! Middlemarch! Thank you so much!

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12/6/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:0 |

Sisters, sisters, there were never such devoted sisters

My Sister, the Serial Killer: A Novel by Oyinkan Braithwaite

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My Sister, the Serial Killer is the debut novel from Nigerian writer Oyinkan Braithwaite, and it packs a real punch! In under 300 pages, Braithwaite draws the reader into a fascinating story of Korede, our narrator, who finds herself repeatedly having to clean up her younger sister Ayoola’s messes. And those messes are the murders of her boyfriends, three and counting. The novel is something of a thriller, as we wait to see if Ayoola will kill again and if the sisters will escape the law, but it is also a commentary on modern Nigeria and the position of women […]

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11/30/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:49 |

Snubbed and Bingo #3!

Herman Melville’s Moby Dick: the Graphic Novel by Christophe Chaboute and Herman Melville

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 cbr10bingo Snubbed Christophe Chaboute’s graphic novel adaptation of Herman Melville’s novel Moby Dick was nominated for a 2018 Eisner Award for Best Adaptation from Another Medium. It lost to Damien Duffy and John Jennings’ adaptation of Octavia Butler’s Kindred. I’ve never had a great desire to conquer Moby Dick. It was never assigned in any of my high school or university literature classes, and frankly, the story of a crazy old sea captain trying to exact revenge on a white whale sounded weird. And then there’s the length of it — 500 pages, give or take. But if you’re going to […]

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11/27/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:48 |

The Book Was Better (but the film was still excellent)

Mudbound by Hillary Jordan

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cbr10bingo The Book Was Better The novel Mudbound was a Pen America Literary Award winner and was turned into an award winning film starring Mary J. Blige. It’s a powerful and tragic story about land, love, friendship and racism in post-WWII Mississippi, told from multiple points of view. Both the novel and the film are excellent, but I must give the nod to the original novel as being better. The novel (and film) open with brothers Henry and Jamie McAllen burying their Pap while Henry’s wife Laura and their two daughters look on. It’s raining and muddy and our first […]

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11/27/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:47 |

The Necco Wafer of Brain Candy

Secrets of a Summer Night: The Wallflowers, Book 1 by Lisa Kleypas

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Cbr10bingo Brain Candy For the “Not in my Wheelhouse” square on my bingo card, I reviewed the romance novel The Hating Game, a CBR favorite but not one of mine. In that review, I indicated that I had read another romance novel that I disliked even more than that one, and ladies and gentlemen, here it is. Secrets of a Summer Night is an historical romance, and I thought that the historical part would make up for some of the romance parts that left me cold, but I was wrong. So wrong.  Secrets is book one of a series featuring […]

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11/26/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:46 |

The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

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Birthday/cbr10bingo  Sylvia Plath was born Oct. 27, 1932. Bingo #2 Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar is a semi-autobiographical novel about a young woman’s experience of depression and mental illness, her time in an institution and her slow journey back to wellness. It is also a commentary on the suffocating life of a young woman who wants more than life seems to offer her because of her class and gender. The Bell Jar was published in the UK in 1963, just before Plath committed suicide. The Bell Jar is the story of Esther Greenwood as told by Esther. She is a […]

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11/15/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:45 |

When white women cry, people die

The Mere Wife: A Novel by Maria Dahvana Headley

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#cbr10bingo So Shiny The only reason I read Beowulf for my last selection was because I wanted to read The Mere Wife, a 2018 novel which I had heard was an innovative take on Beowulf from the point of view of the monster Grendel’s mother, and I wanted to have the epic poem fresh in mind for this. I read Madeline Miller’s Circe earlier this year and loved her imagining of Circe’s point of view vis-a-vis the events of The Odyssey, and initial reviews of The Mere Wife sounded promising. I was not disappointed. The Mere Wife is a startling […]

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11/8/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:44 |


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