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“This wasn’t my first rodeo in Unrequited Land. In fact, I had a season pass.”

To Be Honest by Maggie Ann Martin

July 23, 2019 by cosbrarian Leave a Comment

CBR11Bingo – Summer Reads! Savannah’s older sister is off to college, and she’s not sure how she is going to survive without her. Ashley has always been the peacekeeper between Savannah and her mother, especially since their parent’s divorce and their mom’s follow-up stint on a reality show called “Shake the Weight.” Since mom’s return home, she keeps pushing her new “healthy” lifestyle on her daughters, and Savannah has no interest in following the philosophy of the body-shaming show that body-snatched her mother. Plus, it’s her senior year and she’s juggling other issues: an independent study in journalism with her […]

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7/23/2019 | cosbrarian's CBR11 Review No:49 |

“It Was A Pleasure To Burn” – Fahrenheit 451

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

October 1, 2018 by xoxoxoe Leave a Comment

The kid is in high school now, and although her getting older must mean that I, too, must be getting older (yikes!), there are a few perks. One of them is getting to watch her discover things, like some great books that I read when I was around her age. First up is Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, a dystopian masterpiece. The story of a society, perhaps our own, that has decided that the ideas included in books are dangerous, seems eerily prescient. The floor-to-ceiling view screens that most of society, including the protagonist Guy Montag’s wife Mildred spend their days […]

10/1/2018 xoxoxoe's CBR10 Review No:19 |

Just say no to girl on girl crime

Not That Kind of Girl by Siobhan Vivian

August 15, 2018 by Malin Leave a Comment

Natalie Stirling wants her senior year to be perfect. She wants to be elected student council president and feels the weight of responsibility on her shoulders to do the best job possible. She also believes herself to be feminist and supportive of her fellow female schoolmates, but when a group of freshman girls, led by Spencer Biddle, a girl Natalie once used to babysit, starts running around, encouraging senior guys to sleep with them, Natalie’s carefully laid plans for the school year start to unravel. While Natalie tries to take Spencer under her wing and show her “the error of […]

8/15/2018 Malin's CBR10 Review No:58 |

Like Breakfast Club, but with a murder

One of Us Is Lying by Karen M McManus

August 8, 2017 by Aquillia Leave a Comment

This was a book where the premise hooked me from the start. Five high-school seniors—a nerd, a jock, a rebel, a princess, and an outsider—are in detention together. One of them is murdered, but only someone in the room could have done it. I saw it on an amazon ad, and although it is not my usual genre, I flipped immediately to my kindle app and got the sample. By the time the sample was over, I was dying to know who did it. The book is told through the perspective of the four surviving students: Bronwyn, the overachieving smart […]

8/8/2017 Aquillia's CBR9 Review No:20 |

A dream wrapped in razor wire or razor wire wrapped in a dream

Places No One Knows by Brenna Yovanoff

July 27, 2017 by Malin Leave a Comment

4.5 stars To everyone who knows her, Waverly Camdenmar appears to be pretty much perfect. She is intelligent, successful, one of the most popular girls in school (thanks to her Machiavellian scheming on behalf of her best friend, whom she’s pretty sure she doesn’t even like anymore). Said best friend keeps referring to her as a robot or android, but thanks to her, Waverly fits in. No one knows that nearly every night, Waverly battles insomnia and runs until her feet bleed. She also fears she may be a sociopath. Marshall Holt is one of the school’s notorious stoners. His […]

7/27/2017 Malin's CBR9 Review No:68 |

I read this book in one sitting

My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix

July 2, 2017 by KM Bezner 2 Comments

But I’m not really sure why. But there must have been something I liked to read it all at once. So why the 3 star rating? Well friends, in this house we deduct major points for a book that spends all of its time queerbaiting its readers. But I’m getting ahead of myself, and as glaring as it is this isn’t my only problem with the book. So let’s start at the beginning. Our story opens with Abby Rivers, now a successful adult with a generic job in a nondescript office, discovering that the exorcist has died. This isn’t really […]

7/2/2017 KM Bezner's CBR9 Review No:1 |

Topping the list of things I do not miss: Being a teenager.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

February 10, 2017 by kella Leave a Comment

I came home from work sick today and thought that a nice quick little read while curled up on the couch would be just the thing to make me feel better. That might have worked if I had picked a happier book. While this book has been around for a while, and I had heard of it, I somehow had managed to escape any prior knowledge about the plot; I was going in blind. Something about teenagers? One is a wallflower? Maybe? It’s set in Pittsburgh in the early 90’s and is told through a series of letters that […]

2/10/2017 kella's CBR9 Review No:12 |

The saddest book you could ever read going into the Trump administration.

The New Kids by Brooke Hauser

December 31, 2016 by Blingle Bells Leave a Comment

Brooke Hauser follows the goings-on at International High School at Prospect Heights for a school year. International High School accepts recent immigrants with or without documentation. Their admissions requirements are that they must be recent immigrants (I want to say within a year?) and they have to take an English test and fail. It roughly follows about 10-20 students of varying nationalities and a few teachers. The year she follows is at the very beginning of the Obama administration and it’s truly heartbreaking to juxtapose the atmosphere of hope among these kids with what they must be feeling now. These […]

12/31/2016 Blingle Bells's CBR8 Review No:51 |

GetoffMyLawnn on I am determined to leave town all caught up on reviewsYour review makes me want to read the Josh and Hazel book!
Ellesfena on A Study in SpoilersSomehow I missed seeing this comment until now, but I agree with you that the stories themselves are still good. I actually don’t remember anything...
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