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“Nothing was worse than someone wanting you to talk when the words you needed to say hadn’t even been invented yet.”

Far From the Tree by Benway, Robin

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cbr11bingo – Award Winner! Grace’s steady life is shattered during her high school junior year when she becomes pregnant. Her previously reliable boyfriend dumps her and removes himself from any rights to the child, and her parents are on eggshells around her.  She decides to give the baby up for adoption, which in some ways makes sense: she herself was adopted by her parents, and maybe her baby, who she nicknames Peach (the size the baby was when she realized she was pregnant), will be lucky like her. But the deep depression she suffers post-partum leaves her with fears about […]

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7/11/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:45 |

The pecan doesn’t fall far from the tree.

The Lying Woods by Elston, Ashley

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The Lying Woods is a quiet YA mystery surrounding a family scandal. Owen has just been pulled out of his fancy boarding school upon the news that his father has left town,  taking with him millions of embezzled funds from the fracking company he runs. The company employed most of Owen’s small town, so when Owen is forced to return home and enroll in the public school, he doesn’t have any friends left there – as far as they’re concerned, Owen’s cushy life was lived on their family’s lost pensions and everyone in town is convinced his mother knows more […]

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5/13/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:29 |

If you want your heart to break repeatedly

A Woman is No Man by Etaf Rum

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This debut novel follows a family forced out of their home in Palestine through their lives in New York. A Woman is No Man focuses on three generations of women in the Ra’ad family: Fareeda, the matriarch; Isra, her daughter-in-law; and Deya, Isra’s eldest daughter. We meet Isra when she is seventeen years old and living in Palestine. Her parents have arranged her marriage to a Palestinian refugee living in Brooklyn. Isra has hopes of a better life with this new family. She is an avid reader, and dreams of love and opportunity in her new life. She has seen her […]

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2/26/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:9 |

I don’t want to go into those Dark Places either

Dark Places by Gillian Flynn

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cbr10bingo…White Whale I accidentally bought this on my Kindle on March 6, 2015.  I don’t think I had even read Gone Girl yet at that point, but I think I had heard about Ms. Flynn.  This has been on my “to read” list for a while now, so I’m calling it my White Whale.  Like I said above, I have the Kindle version, but I wasn’t reading it, and I’m reading another book on my Kindle currently, so I downloaded the audiobook version and I listened to it in my car. This story is really messed up.  We meet Libby Day, […]

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11/30/2018 's CBR10 Review No:55 |

Attention, fans of Tana French!

The Burning Air by Erin Kelly

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I was all set to recommend this book wholeheartedly, but it falters in the last five pages or so, which is SO unfortunate. It was SO GOOD up till then. I will definitely check this author out again, to see if she can stick the landing, because the writing and the story was grand.   The MacBride family is a well-off, well-established academic family: father Rowan the dean of the local prestigious prep school and mother Lydia a local judge. Their children are smart and accomplished, and all of them went to their father’s school (the Cath). They’re privileged, but […]

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9/16/2018 's CBR10 Review No:22 |

I Keep Forgetting I Read This …

The Forgotten Ones by Steena Holmes

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After years without contact from his daughter, David Walker is on his deathbed at the local hospital, and ends up making one last effort to connect with his family, reaching out to his granddaughter.  Elle is surprised when she discovers her grandfather is not only still alive, but a patient at the same hospital where she works and her best friend’s current favorite patient.  Elle’s mom, Marie has long refused to talk about her past, and even now, Elle is afraid to confront her due to Marie’s lifelong identity disorder.  While Marie is doing well at the moment, a discussion […]

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4/17/2018 's CBR10 Review No:56 |

If Cats Could Talk …

The Astonishing Thing by Sandi Ward

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When CatOnMyHead mentioned that this novel was narrated from the cat’s perspective, I knew I was going to end up reading it sooner or later. Boo, the cat in question, has always thought of the mother of the family has her person while the two teenagers, father and new baby were simply extras, or in the worst cases, competition for Mother’s attention.  As a result, the cat is at a loss when Mother disappears. Since Boo can’t ask, and the humans are not talking to each other about Mother, it takes her a few days to even determine that Mother […]

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4/3/2018 's CBR10 Review No:38 |

The Boring Lives of Medium-Level Jerks

A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler

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Hi everyone! This is my very first review of my very first Cannonball! And… it nearly sank my ship. You know that thing people say about “when someone tells you who they are, believe them”? I should have taken that theory and applied it to this book. There’s a quote early on about the family whom this book revolves around: “There was nothing remarkable about the Whitshanks… But like most families, they imagined they were special.” The key word here is “imagined” because they aren’t at all special, and while stories about ordinary people are often some of my favorites, […]

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1/5/2018 's CBR10 Review No:1 |


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