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Let Your Life Be a Counter Friction to Stop the Machine

This is Not a Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook by Extinction Rebellion

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Welcome to the Anthropocene era, the fossil fuel-powered nightmare of our own making. Our hot and crowded planet has hit Defcon 3. Right now, a record number of fires is burning down the Brazilian rainforest, threatening three million endemic plant and animal species. Mass bleaching in the heat-stressed Great Barrier Reef has reduced baby coral by 89% since 2016. Okjökull is the first (but not the last) glacier to disappear from Iceland. Last month Paris hit 109º, the hottest temperature ever recorded in the city, which is at the same latitude as Seattle. Our new normal is extreme drought, empty […]

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8/21/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:31 |

“Why do you always quote poetry at me when all I want is a straight answer?”

Not a Drop to Drink by Mindy McGinnis

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The first time Lynn killed a man, she was 9 years old. Her mother taught her the ways of shooting and with good reason: she and Lynn had something highly coveted.  A small pond of water, in a world that was desperate for it.  Now into her teenage years, Lynn is used to the lonely life she and her mother tend to, a life that cycles only around surviving.  Collecting and purifying water is their number one priority. Hunting and growing another. Keeping the men who want to take over their property away by any means possible is the third […]

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4/10/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:25 |

This review should have been done 3 years ago

Time Salvager by Wesley Chu

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I only half read Time Salvager. I’m really stubborn and I absolutely hate to DNF but this book has been sitting on my coffee table and my Goodreads “Currently Reading” for three years. I wish that were an exaggeration. Even though my copy was signed by the author when I went to a reading when this first came out, it’s time. I should have liked this. The general premise and the opening scenes are really intriguing. Humanity can time travel but it’s really dangerous and eventually leads to the time-traveler deteriorating and dying. Time travel was discovered and regulated by […]

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3/2/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:12 |

Let’s Clean Up!

Super Manny Cleans Up! by Kelly DiPucchio

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Manny is back in Super Manny Cleans Up! Kelly DiPucchio and Stephanie Graegin have created a story that is all about environmentalism. Manny and Gertie are seeing that there is a lot of trash in their local park and decide to do something very bold and important: to clean it up. With help from their friends (some real and some not so real) they clean up! The story is sweet. You think it is going to be another story about friendship and using their imagination. And while they do, it is also about bravery. But in a different way than […]

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9/9/2018 's CBR10 Review No:345 |

Gus the Fisherman

The River Why by David James Duncan

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The River Why, by David James Duncan, is one of those books that I love to re-read.  I’ve read it probably ten times over the last 20 years, and it always makes me happy.  Sure, I basically know the story by heart, but it does my heart good to re-read it. So, what’s it about? Well, it’s about a lot of things.  And if you asked me the last time I read it what it was about, I’d probably say something different than I’m going to say this time.  That’s because the book is about a fisherman, but it’s also […]

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4/5/2017 's CBR9 Review No:13 |

“Stop the logging, stop the lies. Save the monarch butterflies.”

Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver

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For years (and years) my favorite Barbara Kingsolver book was The Poisonwood Bible, followed by Prodigal Summer.  And then I read Flight Behavior and I believe that I have a new favorite.  I have enjoyed everything I’ve ever read by Kingsolver, but there is a timeliness to Flight Behavior that makes it extra special. The story features Dellarobia Turnbow, a slight-statured, red-haired farmwife in rural, western Tennessee. Dellarobia has no family outside the family she’s made with her gentle giant of a husband, Cub, and their two kids, on his parents’ sheep farm.  Dellarobia’s days are filled with a love […]

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2/6/2017 's CBR9 Review No:4 |

A Modern Adventure Tale for the Middle Aged Yuppie-Hippie

Never Look a Polar Bear in the Eye: A Family Field Trip to the Arctic's Edge in Search of Adventure, Truth, and Mini-Marshmallows by Zac Unger

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I vacillated between 3 and 4 stars and finally went with three for a few different reasons. For starters, the title, while super cute, is a bit misleading. I picked the book up off of the library shelves knowing nothing about it, looked at the title, and flipped through the photos section. Lots of pictures of the author’s adorable small children and wife hanging out in Churchill, Manitoba. Looked cute, heartwarming, a family adventure. However, the book actually goes in a lot of different directions, and the author’s family is really only the tiniest sliver of the story. It’s true […]

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1/7/2015 's CBR7 Review No:4 |


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