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Not just another WWI novel

Regeneration by Pat Barker

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#cbr10bingo And So It Begins Pat Barker’s Booker-nominated first volume of the Regeneration Trilogy takes place during World War I and, unsurprisingly, deals with the trauma and horror of that conflict. What sets her work apart from other WWI novels, however, is that the action takes place not at the front but at an asylum for British soldiers suffering from what we would now call PTSD. Many of the characters in Regeneration are real people who really knew each other in London and at Craiglockhart Hospital in Edinburgh: the poets Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, and Robert Graves; the doctors Rivers, […]

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9/18/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:38 |

#CBR10Bingo: This Old Thing – Kilmeny of the Orchard, or most likely my worst book of the year

Kilmeny of the Orchard by L.M. Montgomery

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#CBR10Bingo: This Old Thing (published in 1910) Spoiler warning! There will be a number of spoilers for the plot of this book, because the only way I will be able to fully vent my spleen on this atrocious piece of writing is by going into minute detail about the MANY things I found dumb, objectionable or downright offensive in this book. You might as well allow yourself to be spoiled, this book is bad and you don’t actually want to waste time reading it. Eric Marshall has just graduated college and knows that his future is secure. He is going to work […]

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9/18/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:83 |

So…I guess I like James Ellroy now?

The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy

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I began the calendar year 2018 with the belief that, among other things, I would never be a fan of James Ellroy. Many readers have that one author they think they should like, perhaps because they are drawn to said author’s specific genre (for me, that’s mystery novels, particularly moody period pieces set in LA). And they try, try, and try again to get into their books with no luck. James Ellroy is that writer for me. I read American Tabloid years ago and it was a labor of labor. Ellroy’s books are just so rampantly cynical. I’m not opposed to cynicism; […]

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9/10/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:19 |

The Hell of War on the Home Front

Perfidia by James Ellroy

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Read as part of CBR10Bingo: Almost award winner. Perfidia was nominated for the 2015 Folio Prize but did not win. It speaks to the times we live in that the depth of my cynicism has allowed me to appreciate James Ellroy novels in a way I never could before this summer. This is the second book of his I’ve read the last few months and it’s one of the best things I read in 2018. It could also be that this one is slightly better than the others I’ve read. Whereas I usually can’t stand the crass dialogue and doctrinal amorality of […]

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9/6/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:17 |

#CBR10Bingo: Birthday – All the Crooked Saints

All the Crooked Saints by Maggie Stiefvater

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#CBR10 Bingo: Birthday (Ms Stiefvater’s birthday is November 11th) From Goodreads, because it sums it up nicely: Here is a thing everyone wants: A miracle. Here is a thing everyone fears: What it takes to get one. Any visitor to Bicho Raro, Colorado is likely to find a landscape of dark saints, forbidden love, scientific dreams, miracle-mad owls, estranged affections, one or two orphans, and a sky full of watchful desert stars. At the heart of this place you will find the Soria family, who all have the ability to perform unusual miracles. And at the heart of this family are […]

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9/3/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:65 |

Tragedy, hope, and women’s issues

Falling Angels by Tracy Chevalier

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CBR Bingo entry Throwback Thursday. I read this novel many years ago at the recommendation of our Ms. Was (whether she remembers or not!), and it completely won me over. I know, everybody loves Girl with a Pearl Earring, and I do as well, but Falling Angels is still my Chevalier of choice. Bracketed by the funerals of Queen Victoria and King Edward VII, the novel spans 9 years in the lives of two London families, the Colemans and the Waterhouses, as the world around them evolves. At the start of the novel, the families meet in a graveyard the day […]

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9/2/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:20 |

The best thing about this book is its title.

Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay

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I’ve never seen the film adaptation of Picnic At Hanging Rock, but the trailers for the new BBC series piqued my interest and so I thought it high time I read this classic tale of mystery….I don’t know what I was expecting, but whatever it was, it wasn’t this.  Back in 1900, most of the pupils of a stuffy Australian girl’s boarding school are going on a picnic to a local beauty spot, Hanging Rock. While there, a small group of girls decides to go for a walk. One of them returns later, hysterical and alone, and unable to tell […]

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9/1/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:63 |

…so alone, twice captured, carried away on the flood of the world

New of the World by Paulette Jiles

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I’m on a roll with really, really good books lately. This is a good thing, but makes the review part more tricky.  My reviews for books that move me tend to be sort of bland. I think that I am trying not to get all “Read This Right Now!” and fan girly about it and that restraint leads to ho-hum reviews. I am sorry about that. So, I guess for this one I will say READ THIS RIGHT NOW ! This is a tiny little book. It’s just over 200 pages and the hardcover version that I got from the […]

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8/29/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:45 |


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