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Listen to the Farkakte Bird, Bubula. He Has a Story to Tell

Yiddish for Pirates by Gary Barwin

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  This is a very sweet book. It really left me with a warm, fuzzy feeling in my heart. I picked it almost at random from the library website because I have been reading a lot of heavy stuff and I wanted something funny to cleanse the palate a bit and, well Yiddish for Pirates sounds funny. It did the trick, but there is a really good, strong story here too. The story is told by a 500-year-old parrot named Aaron. He has lasted this long because his chosen clavicle, Moishe, is a pirate and in the course of their […]

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7/20/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:9 |

The black bat night approached and enfolded her in its wings

Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

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For the past 15+ years, I’ve been the target audience for the Man Booker awards: literary fiction snob leaning to British Commonwealth authors. Though I have been branching out into other genres over the last few years, I still look to the Booker long- and shortlists for recommendations and usually pick up at least a few each year. For some reason, I haven’t looked much into other prizes until this year when I realized the Baileys (formerly Orange) prize lists would be a great resource for discovering new books by women.  Browsing through that list as well as the Costa […]

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7/11/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:37 |

Back to the future

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

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In what must be the most frightening birthday surprise ever, on Dana’s 26th birthday, as she is moving into a new house with her husband Kevin, she suddenly feels dizzy and gets transported away from her safe and familiar surroundings in 1976. She comes to in the woods by a river, where a boy is in the process of drowning. Dana reacts instinctively and wades into the water, rescuing the boy. Faced with the boy’s hysterical mother, and more terrifyingly, the boy’s angry father, who points a rifle at her, Dana is suddenly back with her husband. She might have […]

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6/23/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:48 |

I can see why people love this, but I didn’t.

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

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This was really well-written, but I wasn’t in the mood for it. Three stars for now, but probably if I had been in the mood, it would have been four stars, so let’s split the difference. The Poisonwood Bible is an important book, one that is probably good for everyone to read and think about it. The book follows the story of the Price family. The father, Nathan, is a Baptist preacher whose gotten it in to his head to save the souls of the entirety of Africa with just his bare hands, and he’s taken his family, a wife […]

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6/7/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:74 |

“For if the world treats you well, Sir, you come to believe you are deserving of it. ”

Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

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Alias Grace is Margaret Atwood’s imagining of the true story of Grace Marks, a convicted (and later pardoned) murderess… “Murderess is a strong word to have attached to you. It has a smell to it, that word—musky and oppressive, like dead flowers in a vase. Sometimes at night I whisper it over to myself: Murderess, Murderess. It rustles, like a taffeta skirt across the floor.” … in 19th century Canada whose sensationalistic trial left doubt as to the nature of her involvement in the double murder of her employer Thomas Kinnear and his housekeeper/mistress Nancy Montgomery. Atwood utilizes what is […]

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6/5/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:29 |

Buckle up, Saunders is gonna blow your mind right out of your butt

Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

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I heard about this book on my beloved podcast, Literary Disco, as they gushed about Saunders, both in general as an acclaimed short form writer, and for this, his debut novel. It tells the real story of the tragic death of Abraham Lincoln’s young son Willie, but veers into the extraordinary as Willie is in a sort of limbo, surrounded by fantastical and verbose ghosts. He is visited by Lincoln in the graveyard, hence the title, and is struggling with whether to stay in this in between place, or move forward to the unknown. I read this in audio format, […]

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6/2/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:23 |

“Don’t ignore half of me so you can fit me into a box.”

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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Really, really glad I suggested this one for my IRL book club. I’d heard great things, and wasn’t disappointed. It’s historical fiction, and it plays with some weighty themes, but it never stops being a fun read. It’s this great mix of serious historical fiction (with a focus that feels totally fresh) and trashy beach read. I say “trashy” not because the book itself is trashy, but its subject matter–Old Hollywood–can’t help but evoke that gossipy, tell-all feeling. Especially since the premise of the book is literally a tell-all. And Evelyn doesn’t hold back. The book is told in frame. […]

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5/30/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:64 |

How to not annoy while moralizing with folklore

The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker

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I’d seen this book around, and I knew it had gotten some good reviews and won some awards. I wasn’t in much of a rush to get to it, but then I realized it would be a good fit for a final project in a Myth and Folklore in Literature class that I have coming up, starting in about a week, and I’m not about to put a book on a list of options for a final project unless I’ve read it myself. Reading project for the weekend I told myself. I finished The Golem and the Jinni in an […]

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5/17/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:26 |


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