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Becky Albertalli is three for three.

Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli

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As always with a Becky Albertalli book, I flew through it. I haven’t read an entire book in a night in quite a long time, but I felt compelled to keep going even though it got pretty late. And then I figured I might as well just finish it. No regrets here! A good time was had. I do think this is my least favorite of her three books, so far, though. Surprisingly, it has nothing to do with Leah herself. Leah is a tough character to like for me. I bounced off her a little bit in Simon vs. the […]

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7/11/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:83 |

Not for me.

The House of Impossible Beauties by Joseph Cassara

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The definition of meh for me. I should have known better, and I feel like my not enjoying this book is my fault. I am usually not into lit-fic, except on rare occasions. But this was recommended to me by one of those Book Riot quizzes where it was like, if you like this and this and this, then you should pick up ______. I read the synopsis and said, hmmm, that does sound like I would enjoy it! I was lured in with the promise of an exploration of NY in the 1980s, drag and ball culture, and explorations […]

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7/9/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:82 |

Yes, this memoir is as good as everyone says.

Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah

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If you like audiobooks at all, I would suggest doing this by audio. I know I enjoyed it a lot more than I would have reading in another format because Trevor Noah narrates it himself, and his voices for everyone are very charming. There’s also something very satisfying about hearing someone tell stories about their life in their own voice. This book is made up of a series of interconnected stories about his youth in South Africa, from when he was “born a crime,” with a white father and black mother (something that was illegal during Apartheid), through his early […]

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7/9/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:81 |

This is hard to get through, even if you’re normally okay while reading books about rape.

Not That Bad: Dispatches From Rape Culture by ed. Roxane Gay

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I have never had such a hard time getting through a book that I liked. “Liked” actually feels like the wrong word here. How can I say I liked something that made me angry and frustrated almost 100% of the way through, and which filled me with dread every time I tried to convince myself to pick it back up again? Perhaps “appreciated”? Understand is necessary? See its importance? But not liked. I didn’t expect this reaction, even though rape is a tough subject to read about under the best circumstances, because I’ve never really read about it the way […]

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7/9/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:80 |

The first half of this book is excellent, the second half a little less so.

The Outsider by Stephen King

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So I did the audio on this one, and I definitely think that affected my reading, for the better. Will Patton is a good narrator (he’s the same one who narrated the Bill Hodges trilogy). Sometimes books are significantly affected by a good or bad audiobook narrator, so I just wanted to say up front that I think that is going on here for me, and I think you should know that going in. I probably would have been less forgiving without the audio. Some slight spoilers below, but if you’ve read the blurb, you’ll probably be fine. This book was […]

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7/9/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:79 |

Second time reading, second time not adequately expressing feelings in review.

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

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I would like to lodge a protest at the start of this review against the practice of writing reviews for books that you have too much to say about. (Often too much to say leads to having nothing to say.) I had a really hard time writing a review for this excellent book the first time I read it. I did an all right job three years ago conveying some of my feelings, but mostly I have so many thoughts and feelings about this book that I literally cannot write them all or you would all be reading a small […]

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7/3/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:78 |

My first Ilona Andrews was a success!

On the Edge (The Edge, #1) by Ilona Andrews

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Malin gave me this book several years ago in the CBR Book Exchange, promising that I would like it. And then I proceeded to not read it for a very long time. In my defense, it’s one of 215 (as of June 2018) books on my physical and digital bookshelves that I own but have yet to read. One of my reading goals for 2018 was to make a serious dent in my already-owned books, and that included reading all of the books I’ve gotten in the CBR Book Exchange over the years. So far I am making okay progress, but I […]

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6/29/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:77 |

A fun adaptation of a classic book that never quite clicked for me.

Heartstone by Elle Katharine White

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This was a fun way to spend several hours, but I actually think I would have liked it better if I had never read Pride and Prejudice. If you’re not aware, Heartstone is debut author Elle Katharine White’s retelling of the Jane Austen classic (a top ten book for me), but with dragons (and such). I want to be clear that I find nothing wrong with this book at all. It’s a cleverly told story that takes the frame of its source material and transforms it from a romantic comedy of errors with a satirical edge, to a straight fantasy […]

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6/28/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:76 |


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