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Mirrors that don’t reflect reality

Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi

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I received Boy, Snow, Bird from an earlier CBR book exchange, but it had been collecting dust for a few years. I finally had a reason to pick it back up when my Mocha Girls Read book club selected it for a fairytale’s retold theme. Helen Oyeyemi’s novel is a VERY loose version of Snow White set in the 1950s. Boy Novak runs away to a small town to escape her abusive father. She meets a man named Arturo who isn’t quite a prince, but he adores her. After sort of wearing her down and her own loneliness, she marries him […]

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12/29/2018 's CBR10 Review No:14 |

You are entering the Red Zone. Proceed at own risk. When in doubt, run.

City of Mirrors: A Novel (Book Three of The Passage Trilogy) by Justin Cronin

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I consider myself very lucky that I discovered Justin Cronin’s “The Passage” series only last summer, so the wait for City of Mirrors was much less painful and dramatic than it would have been if I’d been reading in real time: The Passage was published in 2010 and The Twelve in 2012. City of Mirrors came out four weeks ago. That’s not on a George R. R. Martin level, but still could have been a brutal wait for me. Whew! I love this series. I loved this final book. I wish there were more. But also, City of Mirrors really […]

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7/23/2016 's CBR8 Review No:30 |

“I’ll Get You, My Pretty!” ~ Boy, Snow, Bird

Boy, Snow, Bird: A Novel by Helen Oyeyemi

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This highly acclaimed new novel by Helen Oyeyemi has been called a modern retake on the fairy tale of Snow White. In fact, it is a fairy tale that deals with tropes common to many fairy tales: wicked stepmothers, abandonment, evil forces that prey on innocent young girls, curses. But the overriding theme is female beauty, particularly society’s predilection for whiteness. We imagine beauty as powerful and empowering to those who possess it, but it frequently engenders fear and malevolence in others, resulting in endangerment and harm to the possessor. Boy, Snow and Bird are the main characters in the […]

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3/22/2014 's CBR6 Review No:9 |


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