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“The power that each of us has over complete strangers to make them feel terrible and frightened and weak is amazing.” #CBRBingo

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green

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This was actually a really strange reading experience for me, because I usually don’t read (fiction) books where I’ve spent so many hours listening to the author speak on non-fictional topics. It’s allllmost like what I imagine reading a book that a friend wrote would be. I’ve never actually had that experience, though (yet), so what do I know. Anyway, almost ten years of Vlogbrothers videos, and three years of weekly podcast episodes lends a little familiarity, is all I’m saying. And I liked the book! I liked it a lot, actually. The story was solid and interesting, and sort of […]

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11/12/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:136 |

Makes me not want to read any more Brontë.

Villette by Charlotte Brontë

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I am sorry to say I did not enjoy this at all. I’m very sure this was well-written, a masterpiece of the English language, etc, etc. But not for me. And there were all these reviews! From people saying it was better than Jane Eyre! What! I don’t get it. At all. George Eliot, were you smoking something when you read this? Maybe I just wasn’t in the mood for it, but Lucy Snowe < Jane Eyre. I mean, I didn’t even need to have read Jane Eyre to dislike Lucy as a narrator. And apparently this is actually the second […]

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11/8/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:135 |

Science fiction I actually enjoyed!

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

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#CBR10Bingo: Cannonballer Recommends (this was a CBR Book Exchange gift from Yesknopemaybe (my paperback copy), it has also been favourably reviewed by MathildeHoeg, ingres77, dAvid, badkittyuno, belphebe, emmalita, narfna and faintingviolet, among others) Rosemary Harper is trying to escape her old life and doesn’t want anyone tracking her down. She pays a lot of money to get a new identity and gets a job on a run-down and patched up spaceship, where no one from her old life would ever think to look for her. Aboard the Wayfarer, with its eclectic, but mostly affectionate crew, she finds a sense of community and […]

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11/8/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:95 |

Sexy swamp people.

Bayou Moon (The Edge, #2) by Ilona Andrews

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Short review, because I read this over a month ago. It actually took me forever to read it! I had this book out in ebook form from the library three times before I read it. They kept taking it away from me before I could work up the energy or desire. I finally caved and just bought a Kindle copy, and of course that’s the one that ended up sticking, since I owned it forevermore, I went ahead and read it the next day. Sigh. The quality of the book though didn’t really match how long it took me to […]

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11/7/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:134 |

“It was vital to be aware of actions in the present. Because the present became the past, and the past grew. And got up, and followed you.”

The Brutal Telling (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #5) by Louise Penny

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This was my favorite of these books so far, by quite a large margin. I would say it probably even surpasses the first book for me, mostly because there was no Agent Yvette Nichol here to muck things up (though she has gotten much better since that first book). There was just something about the central mystery here that really appealed to me. This is book five in the Inspector Gamache series, and he continues to be a very calm, steady presence for Penny to anchor her book series around. This is also the first book since Still Life to […]

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11/5/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:133 |

Gearing up for the grand sex criminals finale. #CBRBingo

Sex Criminals, Vol. 5: Five-Fingered Discount by Matt Fraction & Chip Zdarsky

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I liked this a lot better than the last one, which made me feel like the series was starting to become aimless and no fun. It’s still not as purely fun here as it was in the first two volumes, but a lot of things were course corrected, and the last couple of pages were great. Suzie and Jon are both not doing so well post-breakup. Suzie is with the world’s most ‘meh’ man, and Jon is in an open relationship with a lovely woman who he feels nothing for, and he works in a sex shop called ‘Cumworld’. Meanwhile, […]

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10/31/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:132 |

“Holmes,” I cried. “Is it really you?”

The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #6) by Arthur Conan Doyle

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While gathering my thoughts to start writing this review, I kept getting the feeling that this was my favorite of the Holmes story collections so far. With this feeling in mind, I moseyed on over to Goodreads to look at my status updates to try to collect evidence to back it up (I rate and do mini-reviews for every story), whereupon I found to my surprise that my reaction to most of the stories was just good, not great. It’s a solid story collection! However, only two out of the thirteen stories I liked enough to really remember and have fond feelings for. […]

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10/31/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:131 |

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Between the Bridge and the River by Craig Ferguson

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I feel guilty about this book. I stumped for it pretty hard in the Book Club vote, based on how much I loved Craig Ferguson’s memoir, American on Purpose, and his stand up, and his stint on The Late Late Show. (American on Purpose is still the best celebrity memoir I’ve ever read, FYI.) But, I did not like reading this book. His signature wit and profanity, his cheeky observational skills, things that I love about him, were not put to a purpose here that I could appreciate. I take comfort, though, that I was not the only person to make this […]

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10/30/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:130 |


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