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I would probably have liked this better if the protagonist was the sister

The Book of Speculation by Erika Swyler

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Official book description: Simon Watson, a young librarian, lives alone in a house that is slowly crumbling toward the Long Island Sound. His parents are long dead. His mother, a circus mermaid who made her living by holding her breath, drowned in the very water his house overlooks. His younger sister, Enola, ran off six years ago and now reads tarot cards for a traveling carnival. One June day, an old book arrives on Simon’s doorstep, sent by an antiquarian bookseller who purchased it on speculation. Fragile and water damaged, the book is a log from the owner of a […]

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12/7/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No: 84 |

Almost Perfect Collection of Short Stories

Blackbird House by Alice Hoffman

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The only reason why I didn’t give this collection 5 stars is that not all of the stories grabbed me the same way as “The Red Garden.” Also though there is the linkage of the Blackbird House, we have so many loose endings with the people who come and live in that house. I loved “The Red Garden” because many of the people in those stories popped up as young children and then as adults or were referred to in some way so you know what happened to them. That said, I thought the magical realism of the blackbird that […]

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10/15/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No: 259 |

The Scope May Have Been Too Wide/Ambitious

The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo

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I loved Yangsze Choo’s novel, The Ghost Bride, so I was happy when I discovered that this novel had been released, and immediately bought it. It is set in 1930s Malaysia and has three different characters whose lives end up interweaving in odd ways. There is Ji Lin, a young woman, who is working in the city as a dress maker and moon lighting as a dancer.  Though she had higher ambitions, her family would not let her go into a profession, and only eventually agreed to let her work in a more traditional job.  They certainly wouldn’t approve of […]

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8/26/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No: 47 |

Laugh so Loud at the Coffee Shop that the Guy Next in Line Spills His Drink (CBR11 Bingo: The Collection)

Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory by Raphael Bob-Waksberg

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The bizarre come home to roost in Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory. Fleeting daydreams turn into years long stunted relationships, science goes too far into US history, dogs navigate the meaning of “good” and “bad”, entire stories are told in the span of half-sentences, and a Minions watch holds new and aching power. The wordplay, absurdity, and bone-deep ennui of Bob-Waksberg’s previous creation, Bojack Horseman, are ever present and ready to build you up and tear you back down to the ground. Some of those sensibilities make themselves known before even opening the book, as Bob-Waksberg solicited […]

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8/18/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No: 11 |

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 |

“She Always Keeps a Part of Herself a Mystery”

To the Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey

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Bingo Square: Reading the TBR The Snow Child was in my top five reads the year I read it.  Given that, it seems like I should have run out to read Ivey’s follow up, but I didn’t even get the Kindle version of it until January 2018, and then didn’t get around to reading it until this week.  I’m not sure if I was hesitant after the magic of The Snow Child, or if I was worried about being emotionally gutted by this one as well. While I can now verify that both of Ivey’s novels are magical and amazing, […]

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7/30/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No: 10 |

Old school vibes in modern YA

A Fierce and Subtle Poison by Samantha Mabry

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CBR11Bingo – Reading the TBR! Lucas spends his summers on Puerto Rico, housed up in the resort his father owns.  The two don’t get along, but Lucas is able to escape by spending time with his friends on the island or romancing the girls there.  Mostly they all just horse around, and trade tales that the residents gossip on: like the house in town that’s supposedly cursed, and the scientist who lives there, and the daughter he hides.  The story of this family has transcended local gossip into local legend: some say the girl’s touch can kill; some say the […]

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7/24/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No: 50 |

Sweet tea in book form

Midnight at the Blackbird Cafe by Heather Webber

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With three days to go before vacation I had nothing lined up for my annual beach read. Thankfully, right before I left I received an ARC copy of Heather Webber’s new book Midnight at the Blackbird Cafe. Many of us are familiar with the source material of that is at the kernel of this novel. All you need to do is search the section of your brain that stores childhood nursery rhymes  and up will pop the following: “Sing a song of sixpence, a pocket full of rye; four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie! When the pie was […]

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7/19/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No: 5 |


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