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The Ballad of the Reluctant Hero

The Song of Achilles: A Novel by Madeline Miller

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I have always loved ancient myths, I read every book of myths from every single part of the world I could get my hands on as a kid. Being that I grew up in the Western World this mostly meant Greek Myths. While I could find a couple Chinese, and Korean, and Indian myth books in my local libraries, and there were several on Norse and Celtic mythology as well, all of these were far outnumbered by the books of Greek and Roman myths and the Epic poems. I read the Odyssey when I was about 12. I re-read it […]

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11/7/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:18 |

Their names written on water. Or scorched into the earth. Or atomized into the air. Legion.

A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson

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CBR10Bingo: This Is The End (BINGO!) Have you ever read a book that you hated to put down but also hated to keep reading because you couldn’t bear the thought of reaching the end? That’s how I felt reading Kate Atkinson’s A God in Ruins, the companion to her brilliant Life After Life.  Unlike Ursula in Life After Life, her younger brother Teddy only gets one shot at life. He still becomes a bomber pilot during World War II, still gets shot down over Germany, but this time he survives, captured and imprisoned for the last 18 months of the […]

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11/2/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:60 |

Finally tackling a CBR book exchange book. #CBRBingo

A Monstrous Regiment of Women (Mary Russell, #2) by Laurie R. King

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Really not sure why I waited three years in between reading books one and two. Especially since I’ve been on a Sherlock Holmes kick since January 2017 (still going strong!). And especially since MsWas was kind enough to send me books two, three, and four in the CBR Book Exchange that year. They’ve just been sitting here waiting for me! I think I kind of forgot why I liked the first book so much after I read it, and it wasn’t the mystery, or even the appearance of Holmes in a different context. I just really like Laurie King’s style. When I […]

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10/29/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:129 |

#CBR10Bingo: AlabamaPink – The Dud Avocado (First bingo!)

The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy

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#CBR10Bingo: AlabamaPink Sally Jay Gorce is a young woman of independent means, thanks to the benevolence of a rich uncle. He’s given her enough money to live comfortably abroad for two whole years, no strings attached, as long as she comes back and tells him about her adventures at the end of the two years. Not needing to hold down a job or really do anything at all for the money, means Sally Jay spends her time flitting about Paris, taking a lover, drinking and partying. When her older diplomat lover starts getting a bit too demanding, she convinces herself […]

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10/16/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:87 |

Greatness

LA Confidential by James Ellroy

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Read for CBR10Bingo: Book was better. The movie is one of my all-time favorites. This is my first time reading the novel. I’ve read five James Ellroy books in the last few months so if you want my thoughts on my personal evolution towards his works, check past reviews. Having read the tail end of his work and the beginning of what made him popular, I can say with confidence this is the best book he’s written. It’s the perfect merger of his style and capability. I knew the book would be substantially different than the movie, as the latter […]

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10/16/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:34 |

James Ellroy But Condensed And More Entertaining

The Song Is You by Megan Abbott

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While I enjoy her recent work, which is usually set in the present day, I wish Megan Abbott had written more books with settings in 40s and 50s LA and Vegas. She was really onto something. I suppose comparisons to James Ellroy’s The Black Dahlia are inevitable with this one. Like Ellroy’s work, it’s a murder mystery based on a true murder of a woman working the fringes of Hollywood. But unlike Ellroy, who likes to muse about social affairs and masculinity, this is a straight-up whodunnit. And Hallelujah, for the reader is better off for it. Most of the book centers […]

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10/9/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:32 |

World War I Novels Never End Happily

The Ghost Road by Pat Barker

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#cbr10bingo This is the End The Ghost Road is the third and final volume in Pat Barker’s Regeneration trilogy. Set during WWI in England, the trilogy tells the story of both real and fictional characters trying to make sense of a senseless war. The first book focused on the patients at Craiglockhart Hospital, an asylum for soldiers suffering from shell shock and being treated so as to be sent back to the front. Book two centered on the fictional character Billy Prior, a soldier recovering from both physical and psychological injury in an England in the throes of raging homophobia […]

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10/4/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:40 |

Psychological Conflict Management

The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker

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In volume one of Pat Barker’s award winning Regeneration Trilogy, readers experienced life in a hospital for English soldiers suffering from “war neurosis” (PTSD) during WWI. Barker uses both fictional and real historical characters (Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, Dr. Rivers) to show the trauma of war for soldiers expected to heal and return to action, and the impact of their experiences upon the doctor treating them. At the end of that novel, Rivers’ patients are being released back to action, which was his goal, but he is questioning whether or not this is right. Sassoon’s anti-war ideas are beginning to […]

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9/28/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:39 |


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