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If you knew how your actions affected others, would you change them?

An Inspector Calls and Other Plays by JB Priestley

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An Inspector Calls and Other Plays contains, as you might have guessed, An Inspector Calls as well as Time and the Conways, I Have Been Here Before, and the Linden Tree. Of the collection, An Inspector Calls stands head and shoulders above the rest but they are all of a high standard. Time and the Conways and I Have Been Here Before both deal with time, fate and free will, but of the two I definitely enjoyed the latter the most. The former sees us meeting a family amidst some sort of party in which charades are being played, meeting […]

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8/22/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:32 |

you will falsely remember being told about Melmoth by your grandmother’s mother when you were very small

Melmoth by Sarah Perry

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There is something immediately nauseating – hear me out- about this book. You can be nauseous when you feel ill, when you ride a roller coaster, when you are nervous, or when you eat too many sweets. There is a feeling of hopeful dread that climbs over you (and all of the characters within) before you have finished reading the first page. There is a feeling that you have been here – in a cafe in Prague, under an overpass in Manila, in a field on a river on the edges of Bohemia- and that you have heard these stories […]

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1/2/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:1 |

To Make a Thing as Simple as an Apple Pie, You have to Create the Whole, Wide World

The Sun is also a Star by Nicola Yoon

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During this last post-election month, I feel like my emotions are out of control and too close to the surface.  Case in point, I was doing a first listen of my copy of the Hamilton Mix-Tape the other morning while making breakfast and basically was misty eyed during the whole first half.  Songs about immigrants and rising up and writing your way out of bad circumstances hit close to home (and I’m a middle-aged white lady so I can only imagine how this CD resonates with other folks in my community). What does all this have to do with The […]

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12/5/2016 's CBR8 Review No:33 |

Fate is a Funny Thing

Who Do You Love by Jennifer Weiner

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This latest novel by Jennifer Weiner was thoroughly readable and engaging as long as I squashed my inner cynic into a small ball and buried it deep in a drawer.  It tells the story of Rachel Blum and Andy Landis, who first meet when they are 8 years old.  Rachel is in a Florida hospital being treated for a heart condition that she has struggled with since birth.  Andy ends up in the E.R. of the same hospital with a broken arm. The accident happened while Andy, on vacation with his single mom, was left alone in the hotel room, […]

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7/24/2016 's CBR8 Review No:21 |

You are entering the Red Zone. Proceed at own risk. When in doubt, run.

City of Mirrors: A Novel (Book Three of The Passage Trilogy) by Justin Cronin

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I consider myself very lucky that I discovered Justin Cronin’s “The Passage” series only last summer, so the wait for City of Mirrors was much less painful and dramatic than it would have been if I’d been reading in real time: The Passage was published in 2010 and The Twelve in 2012. City of Mirrors came out four weeks ago. That’s not on a George R. R. Martin level, but still could have been a brutal wait for me. Whew! I love this series. I loved this final book. I wish there were more. But also, City of Mirrors really […]

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7/23/2016 's CBR8 Review No:30 |

A Little Pilot-Light-Sized Flame

Granta: Fate (Issue 129/Autumn 2014) by Sigrid Rausing (Publisher & Editor)

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This issue of Granta explored the theme of fate in all of its beautiful, terrible glory. The introduction warns that the selections to follow “are concerned with fate in its most serious manifestations: love, sexuality, identity, death, illness, religion and war.” The issue included beautiful images of Mexico’s retablos or exvotos, painted on pieces of metal or wood, “which are offerings of gratitude to a Catholic divinity, usually placed in a sanctuary shrine or altar, that condense a charged moment in somebody’s life, perhaps of anguish or even terror, usually into a simple image, a man lying face down in the street, a patient in […]

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7/10/2015 's CBR7 Review No:6 |


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