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A lovely fairy tale that came at just the right time

The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill

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I am quite sure I found a review of this book on the CBR site, and it sounded like a lovely warm book to read in what has been a challenging few weeks. It’s a Newberry Award winning young adult book, filled with emotion and magic and love. The book began much like a traditional Brothers Grimm fairytale; a village needs to leave it’s youngest child in the forest on a certain day every year, an offering to an evil witch so that she leaves the village alone for the remainder of the year. The villagers generally don’t seem to […]

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11/12/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:26 |

The Review and the Review

The City and the City by China Miéville

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This is my first ever double-review! I have borrowed the wonderful extra brain that is my friend Amy. We met briefly in England and now she’s in Georgia and I’m in Denmark. We’ve read the same book and then I’ve bombarded her with loads of questions in an effort to ensure that she’d do most of the work, because well Amy’s brilliant and I love hearing what she thinks. I, of course, stole these questions shamelessly from the internet so there is nothing original about anything in my side of this review. I answered some questions as well, trying to […]

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11/12/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:40 |

Everything I knew I always wanted

The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin

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I keep hearing things about N. K. Jemisin, but my reading list is so long. HOWEVER. Jemisin ticks so many boxes for CBR 10 Bingo – award winner, birthday, start of a series, etc that I made space. I was very surprised to find that my library had no Jemisin books in the collection, so requested a copy of The Fifth Season via interlibrary loan based on recommendations on the CBR FB page. Thank you, folks, for the excellent recommendation! This is the first book in a trilogy, with the story following three different protagonists at three different time periods. […]

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11/10/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:25 |

Simply Adorable

Kenny and the Dragon by Tony DiTerlizza

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A big thank-you to crystalclear for suggesting this book both on CBR and in person (by means of shoving the audio book case at me in a parking lot). I toted it around in my car for about a week before reading her review, and I’m glad I took the few hours to listen to this on my commute. The book is absolutely adorable. Kenny is a young rabbit living in a little farming village, and like most children’s book characters, he doesn’t fit in. He’s a book worm and a smarty-pants, while the rest of his village is more […]

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11/9/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:25 |

Posts review and runs away

Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey

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Sometimes, the timing just isn’t right for a particular book. Having chosen to start reading Kushiel’s Dart at an incredibly stressful time where work completely took over my life, it took me forever to get through this as I’d constantly find myself having zoned out thinking about a work problem and then struggling to find the thread again. I’m not sure whether that would have happened had I not been so stressed, but as it was Kushiel’s Dart didn’t hook me in the way that I had hoped. I’d put it down for days at a time without feeling the […]

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11/8/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:72 |

I thought it was a 3 star but the ending changed it to 4 star

The Book of M by Peng Shepherd

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The Book of M is the first book by Peng Shepherd and it’s hard to classify.  It’s sort of fantasy due to there being some magic.  It’s kind of science fiction as it examines the human condition in a near future where human civilization has collapsed.  It is definitely dystopian, see previous sentence about the collapse of human civilization.  And urban in the sense that a good chunk of the book happens in urban centers.  It has romantic themes as two of the main characters are a married couple and much time is spent establishing their relationship and love for […]

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11/5/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:45 |

The power of good-bye

Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor

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CBR10Bingo: Brain Candy (BINGO!) Before this year, I wasn’t much of a YA reader. I saw myself as more of a Serious Reader, too serious for the frivolity of YA lit. And while my favorite books are still likely to be denser and heavier literary fiction and hard sci-fi, I’ve come to enjoy the balance that YA brings to my library with the quicker read and lighter tone even when the subject matter isn’t so light. Thus, the Brain Candy square was always going to be a YA book. It was just a matter of picking one.  Nnedi Okorafor’s Akata […]

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10/28/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:58 |

This book is delightful, and now I want a tea dragon

The Tea Dragon Society by Katie O'Neill

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I don’t remember where I first heard about The Tea Dragon Society but I was instantly hooked by the name, as it contains two of my favorite things, tea and dragons.  While taking my ten year old gift book shopping (we always give books as birthday presents), I pointed out The Tea Dragon Society and said that I really wanted it.  She remembered and gave it to me for my birthday this past weekend! Katie O’Neill wrote an endearing story with charming, beautiful illustrations and wonderful characters.  The story is a sweet reflection on friendship and traditions, and finding your way in the world.  […]

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10/24/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:44 |


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