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It’s about the Monkey Trial but so much more

Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee

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Cbr11bingo History/schmistory Inherit the Wind, the play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, was inspired by the “Scopes Monkey Trial” of 1925. That real historic event brought the attention of the nation to the small town of Dayton, Tennessee, as two titans — William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow — battled in a courtroom over the place of Darwin’s theory of evolution in the classroom. This matter, sadly, is still debated today, which makes the play as timely as ever. Yet, Inherit the Wind is not just about science and religion. In interviews decades after the play and movie […]

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8/7/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:38 |

There are better things to rebel against, Nate

Rebel by Bernard Cornwell

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Pressed upon me by a colleague, it took me a few weeks to really get into Rebel in which we meet young Nathaniel Starbuck, a Bostonite who’s fled to the South to escape the wrath of his abolitionist preacher father who is most upset that Nate has stolen a bunch of money for and then been abandoned by a floozy. Narrowly avoiding being tarred by an angry Southern mob thanks to a timely rescue by his friend’s father and wealthy landowner Washington Falcouner, Nate finds himself pledging his loyalty to his new benefactor against the North in the civil war […]

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8/6/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:28 |

Murder and medical procedures most horrid

The Way of All Flesh by Ambrose Parry

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Set in 1840s Edinburgh, The Way of All Flesh is a diverting tale of murder as well as a horrifying eye opener on the obstetrics of the time that made me wonder more than once how enough women have ever survived childbirth to have continued the human race. Will Raven has accrued more than just an education whilst studying to become a doctor. Having become friendly with a sex worker, Evie, Raven has borrowed heavily for some ne’erdowells to help her out of a situation, only for her to turn up dead. Still pursued by the debt-collecting heavies, Raven takes […]

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8/5/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:27 |

The Game’s Afoot (Bingo)

A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

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3.5 stars #CBR11 Book Club: Classics Spoiler Warning! There WILL be mild spoilers for the plot of this story (which is from 1887, so you know, if you wanted to know the details, you’ve had enough time to look them up or just read the damn story). This is also the Cannonball Book Club selection for August, so I’m going to assume that most people who are interested in participating will read the book before then. If, however, you have NOT read the book yet, maybe skip this review until you have done the required reading. Proceed at your own risk. […]

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8/3/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:59 |

Fiona Davis does it again

The Chelsea Girls by Fiona Davis

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Fiona Davis is fast becoming my favorite author.  I have enjoyed all her past historical fictions – The Dollhouse, The Address, and The Masterpiece, but this one is the best yet.  All of her books center on a historical location in New York City. This one, unlike her others and many historical fictions written today, does not switch back and forth between two time periods.  It starts during WWII with quiet Hazel, the child of a “Broadway family,” including a very demanding stage mom, joining the USO in Italy.  She meets Maxine, the brassy Hollywood starlet, and they become fast […]

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8/3/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:10 |

Not Very Good

The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo

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I don’t know what else to say about this book besides I didn’t enjoy it. The dual POVs didn’t help and the whole thing with Jin Li and who she really loved grossed me out. Sorry, I just thought that the whole book was a mess and I still don’t understand everything that was going on. “The Night Tiger” follows Jin Li who is working at a dance hall trying to earn money to pay down her mother’s gambling debts. We have her recounting her past and how her mother ended up married to her stepfather and how she got […]

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8/2/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:184 |

Sing!

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

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Seriously I got nothing to say that probably has not been said by thousands of people before me who finished this fantastic book. Owens hit on something here that I think a lot of readers long for. A very developed character and plot with some mystery elements in it with a totally blindsided ending that I didn’t see coming. I loved this whole thing. I think we will be talking about “Where the Crawdads Sing” for decades. “Where the Crawdads Sing” follows a 6 year old Kya Clark and what befalls her after her mother leaves her family. Soon enough […]

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8/2/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:183 |

Some Lessons Are Best Not Repeated

The Woman on the Orient Express by Lindsay Jayne Ashford

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Ugh, oh man. OK. So, it turns out I reviewed another of Ashford’s books last year, Whisper of the Moon Moth, and I really wish I had realized these books were by the same author before I had started it. It also explains why this stupid book refused to stop popping up in my “Recommended For You” List on my Kindle. A quick recap of why I wasn’t thrilled with Moon Moth: basically I really don’t like novels that try to make suppositions about real people. It just bugs me. You don’t actually know them or what they thought about […]

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7/31/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:17 |


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