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Why Is It Always So Hard to Review the Great Ones?

Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie

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Bingo Square: Award Winner I’ve been meaning to read this novel for quite a while now, but BR 11 Bingo was the final push to get me to start it.  I like sci-fi, but some sci-fi can become a bit dry and too technical for me to enjoy, and I feared this might be one of them.  As it turns out, I should not have been concerned about that at all. I also started reading Becky Chambers’ novels recently, so it was interesting to read two novels where a ship’s AI played such a large role, and showed two very […]

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7/31/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:14 |

“She was glad to have met someone who liked to read.” (Double Bingo)

A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers

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#CBR11 Bingo: Cannonballer Says (recommended by Carriejay, faintingviolet, emmalita, dAvid, tillie, badkittyuno and Narfna, among others) Official book description: Lovelace was once merely a ship’s artificial intelligence. When she wakes up in an new body, following a total system shut-down and reboot, she has no memory of what came before. As Lovelace learns to negotiate the universe and discover who she is, she makes friends with Pepper, an excitable engineer, who’s determined to help her learn and grow. Together, Pepper and Lovey will discover that no matter how vast space is, two people can fill it together. Last year, for Cannonball Bingo, I chose one of the books […]

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7/30/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:55 |

Prince Sebastian would like to introduce you to himself, Lady Crystallia

The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang

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The Prince and the Dressmaker most likely was pretty cutting-edge when it came out last year. We were started to talk about sexual identity and gender fluidness and the issues that come from that. Using the graphic novel format also is a bit different. But this publishers imprint seems to be the one to go to for cutting-edge stories in this usually more approachable format. However, a year later, having a young man dress in woman’s clothing as sometimes he feels male and sometimes female, is somewhat tame compared to other stories out there. Yet, this story still needs to […]

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2/25/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:54 |

Have you found your color?

Honeysmoke by Monique Fields

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Honeysmoke brings up an interesting question: If you mother and father are two different colors, what is your color? Simone wants her own color. She is not black or white or peanut butter or any other color. Her friends and parents try to help her, but Simone is determined to give a name to what color she is. The how she comes up with her color is pretty special; just like she is. It shows that she is a little bit her mom, dad and herself. Monique Fields works in many areas (on air, print and online) promoting race and […]

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12/28/2018 's CBR10 Review No:488 |

I wish I liked the characters more

Sunburn by Laura Lippman

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cbr10bingo… Underrepresented I really wish I liked the main character more.  I picked this audiobook (in CD form) up from the library on a whim.  The cover looked cool, and the story sounded interesting.  I’m always up for a murder mystery with a dash of hidden identities. The main character is Polly / Pauline.  She starts out by abandoning her daughter and husband on their beach vacation and driving to Delaware.  I don’t know if this was the point, but I didn’t like her right from the beginning.  She seemed selfish, self-absorbed, and kinda bitchy.  It appeared that she always […]

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10/23/2018 's CBR10 Review No:48 |

Randal the Elephant

Randal the Elephant by Ciara Gavin

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Randal the Elephant is a curious Otter. What? Okay, let me back track.  Randal is an otter. An otter that thinks elephants are majestic and amazing and his dream is to become on. Some of his friends encourage his dream. Others think otters are better. Yet, Randal goes off to become an elephant. And even though his letters home seems to say he is having a great time, the pictures show the reader that this might be less than the truth. This is a modern tale of searching for oneself and outward identity. Finding oneself might take one on a […]

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4/26/2018 's CBR10 Review No:97 |

“I am not all human women… you are what all women fear in this world”

The Devourers by Indra Das

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In my reading habits, I do not read too much fantasy. I have never been a fan of high fantasy, those works that are set in an alternate world. I struggled with The Hobbit for years before finally managing to get through the audio book last year, for example. I do better with “low” fantasy, stories set in the recognizable world which include magical or mythological elements, which is where books like Daughter of Smoke and Bone work much better for me. The Devourers, our Fantasy book club pick, should fit into that niche as well, but it really felt […]

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3/9/2017 's CBR9 Review No:12 |

Back Seat Driver

The Passenger by Lisa Lutz

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Happily, I was given an advanced copy of this book from NetGalley for an honest review which was exciting since I’ve been a fan of Lisa Lutz for a long time now. The Spellman Files is a six book series that follows the quirky Spellman family who have no boundaries and run their own investigative business out of their home in San Francisco.  In Heads, You Lose, every other chapter is written either by Lutz or her ex-boyfriend David Hayword and as they write a murder mystery they also trade barbs with one another in the footnotes (I really, really […]

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4/4/2016 's CBR8 Review No:27 |


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