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Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Big skies, big animals, big threats

May 28, 2016 by borisanne 2 Comments

By the time I started reading Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, I had forgotten what it was about, and I’m glad I had because otherwise, I would have had my defensives up. I added it to my library queue after reading badkittyuno’s review last month. Cannonball Read: the system works. There’s not much I can add here. badkittyuno did a killer job summarizing the experience of the read, and the broad strokes of the story that Alexander Fuller tells. It’s a memoir of […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, History Tagged With: #memoir, Africa, alcoholism, Alexandra Fuller, apartheid, baboons, badkittyuno, CBR8, civil war, codependence, dogs, Fuller, history, horses, machine guns, manic depression, Non-Fiction, siblings

borisanne's CBR8 Review No:19 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, History · Tags: #memoir, Africa, alcoholism, Alexandra Fuller, apartheid, baboons, badkittyuno, CBR8, civil war, codependence, dogs, Fuller, history, horses, machine guns, manic depression, Non-Fiction, siblings ·
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A historical romance with horse racing

April 17, 2016 by Malin Leave a Comment

Sir Bartlett Crosby is training the last of his promising horses, Golden Barb, in the hopes that it will win him a sizable prize purse in the upcoming race. Due to his mother’s compulsive gambling, he’s had to sell off most of the horses in the stable, a lot of land and furniture, and reduce staff considerably. So when Miss Hannah Chandler turns up with a bill of sale that suggests his mother has sold Golden Barb, HIS horse, to the Chandlers, he is less […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Romance Tagged With: CBR8, historical romance, horses, Malin, Regency, the Romance of the Turf, The Sport of Baronets, Theresa Romain

Malin's CBR8 Review No:43 · Genres: Fiction, History, Romance · Tags: CBR8, historical romance, horses, Malin, Regency, the Romance of the Turf, The Sport of Baronets, Theresa Romain ·
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