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It’s a familyyyyy traditiiiiion (of dysfunction)

The Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

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Four siblings are eager to inherit what they affectionately refer to as “The Nest” from their late father. He worked hard his whole life, pinching and living a modest live, and his intention was to provide a modest bump for his children, but his investment practices and a favorable market have swollen the amount beyond what he could have imagined. But, when the eldest sibling’s bad decisions finally catch up with him, they all pay the consequences, literally. Now the nest is almost depleted, and financial times are tight. Will things be made right? This is a story of arrested […]

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6/17/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:26 |

One Summer Evening

Summer Evening by Walter de la Mare

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Summer Evening by Walter de la Mare has a “grab you cover.” While it needed more text these illustrations are gorgeous, but the lack of text does take away from things. Even if it just had text more sprinkled in then it has, would have made this book perfect. A family is out and about having an evening picnic. And when the children notice the cat chasing a mouse, they follow it pass the dog and the other animals of the farm. Mostly a wordless picture book, the illustrations do tell a story. The rich colors are perfectly representing the […]

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6/12/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:201 |

Mommy’s Khimar is Lovely

Mommy's Khimar by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow

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A young American-Muslim girl tells about her mother’s colorful khimars (or headscarf). She plays dress up in them (she is a princess, a mamma bird) and her mother shows her how to properly wear it as well. The girl talks about all the things she does. Just like any other child. She talks about a grandmother who does not go to the mosque, but is loved and is a member of her family. And she talks about her extended family in the mosque. She talks about how her father loves her. And how she protects her baby brother and her […]

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5/3/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:107 |

Alice is the same…maybe I’ve changed?

Skylight Confessions by Alice Hoffman

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I used to say that Alice Hoffman was one of my favorite authors. “Used to” as in have always, ever since I first fell in love with the book “Practical Magic,” which is SO much better than the movie, which is really damn good it its own right, but for the record, only covers about 1/3 of the content of the book. Initially in my late teens I read her books with a voracious appetite, and regularly recommend her to others.  There are elements of magical realism present, be it ghosts, or people with powers, or just mysterious elements that […]

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5/2/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:18 |

Alma

Alma and How She Got Her Name by Juana Martinez-Neal

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Names are a funny thing. Growing up how many of us hated our names? I wanted to be something exotic (why I choose the nickname Raven. They are smart, clever, mischievous and even magical. Yes, a little dark, too…)  Long story short, as a child my name and I had a love/hate relationship (I loved to hate it….)  However, once I got older I learned the story of my name. I am named after a great-aunt and a grandmother. I would have been named Dominique if my mother had her way (probably why I always wanted something a little more […]

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4/19/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:86 |

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 |

I somehow never read this as a kid!

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

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With all the excitement surrounding the new movie coming out, I wanted to read A Wrinkle in Time again.  I say again, because I was nearly convinced I read it as a child.  Somehow, I did not!  I’m not sure how that happened, because this is right up my alley.  I listened to the audiobook in the car, and it went so quickly!  I loved it by the way.  I already put holds on the rest of the books in the Time Quintet, so look forward to them too! So the basics plot is that a girl named Meg (I […]

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2/14/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:8 |

Why I Can’t Watch “Hoarders” and Its Ilk

Coming Clean: A Memoir by Kimberly Rae Miller

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Kimberly Rae Miller has written a thoughtful and touching account of her life as the child of loving, supportive parents who also struggled with hoarding. From the outside, her life in a working-class community on Long Island probably seemed typical to most of the people around her–because even as a young girl, Miller put tremendous effort into creating that impression to protect her family. In fact, she lived in homes that were packed to the brim with papers, broken appliances, and more–homes in which the plumbing didn’t work, and repairs went unmade, and fresh food was an impossibility. But she […]

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1/14/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:2 |


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