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Extremely solid second book; I liked it better than the first. #CBRBingo – Own Voices

The Bride Test (The Kiss Quotient, #2) by Helen Hoang

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I liked this quite a bit, maybe even more than the first one. It still featured miscommunication as one of the central conflicts, but with one of the characters being autistic, and the other being from another country, I feel like here it’s actually justified, and it didn’t really bother me. (It still bothered me a little in The Kiss Quotient, even though Stella was on the spectrum as well. Also, that book featured a couple of other tropes that didn’t sit well with me, and there was none of that here.) Khai believes he can’t fall in love and […]

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9/10/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:74 |

Not at all what I was expecting. #CBRBingo – Birthday

Firestarter by Stephen King

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I’ve read a fair amount of Stephen King by this point, and this is one of the better ones. Aside from some dated language and ideas (fatphobia, gender essentialism, homophobic/racist language used mostly by bad guys), I liked this one almost as much as I like Misery. Good villains, simple but effective story. Just a really well done horror/suspense novel. The 1980s just ooze from every page. I actually wasn’t anticipating the intensity of this novel. It opens in the middle of things, and our two main characters, Andy and Charlie McGee (father and daughter), are already on the run […]

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9/10/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:73 |

“Give her hell from us, Peeves.” (This review is the reason I’m four months behind.)

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5) by J.K. Rowling

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This was the most I have ever liked this book. (And that’s saying something, because I remember losing my mind over it when it was first published.) I’m kicking myself for not writing up some notes after I finished because it’s been since May that I finished this, and I’ve lost most of that newly gleaned insight. Maybe going through these quotes will help bring some of it back. Also, just know going in, I do not hold with any nonsense about blaming Harry for being whiny or angry this book, and I am going to have things to say […]

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9/10/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:72 |

Jasper Fforde does YA fantasy, and it works! #CBRBingo – YOUTHS!

The Last Dragonslayer (The Last Dragonslayer, #1) by Jasper Fforde

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I liked this quite a bit! And so I’ve started yet another Jasper Fforde series. I have yet to finish one, either because of my own reading preferences or because, well—actually none of his series are finished. He keeps dangling a ninth Thursday Next (I still need to read seven and eight), the third Nursery Crime book will seemingly never be written (why), we seem to never be getting Shades of Grey‘s promised two sequels, and this one has a fourth book that who even knows when it’s coming. So even if I finish reading all his books, I will […]

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7/23/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:71 |

“Arrange your ideas. Be methodical. Be orderly. There is the secret of success.” – Not Hastings

The Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot, #2) by Agatha Christie

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Okay, first of all, Hastings is an *idiot*. I don’t think I quite realized that in the other books I’ve read with him in them. He’s supposedly modeled after Watson from the Sherlock Holmes stories, an audience surrogate character, but Watson gets an unfair rap about his bumbling—a side effect of his characterization on film rather than evidence in the canon—whereas Hastings is genuinely a boob, and one that doesn’t realize the extent of his boobitude. In this one, not only does he get everything wrong, hide evidence from Poirot, and bumble about mucking things up, but he also “falls […]

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7/23/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:70 |

Finally getting around to a series I’ve had on my TBR for ten years. #CBRBingo – Reading the TBR

Goblin Quest (Jig the Goblin, #1) by Jim C. Hines

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Somehow I’ve ended up reading all of Jim C. Hines’s series in reverse publication order. Jig the Goblin is the last series of his I have to read, and the first published. It’s definitely not as polished or witty as I found his later books, and perhaps I’m missing something because I don’t play Dungeons & Dragons, but it was a fun time anyway. Having read a shit ton of fantasy in my day, I felt I could still appreciate it. Plus, I get to see the origins of Smudge the fire spider! (He is also a character in the […]

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7/23/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:69 |

I read this book three months ago. It was great!

The Austen Playbook (London Celebrities, #4) by Lucy Parker

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This was almost a five star read for me. I’ve been trying to catch up on my enormous backlog of reviews, and when I picked this up to give myself a refresher (it’s been almost three months since I finished it), I ended up sort of revisiting it for a couple of hours. You know, not a full re-read, but just sort of lovingly scrolling through it and re-reading favorite bits. But for some reason I still can’t quite bring myself to give it the full five stars. Maybe with time? (I have been hankering to re-read her other books, […]

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7/11/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:68 |

The end for G. Willow Wilson, but not for Ms. Marvel.

Ms. Marvel, Vol. 10: Time and Again by G. Willow Wilson

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And so marks the end of G. Willow Wilson’s tenure on Ms. Marvel, something she thought wouldn’t last beyond a handful of issues, but has now gone on for seven years, and Kamala herself is flourishing at large in the Marvel Comics universe—or so I’ve heard, because I just can’t with superhero comics for the most part. They are too interconnected and I can’t read them all, it’s impossible, so I will read almost none of them instead. I have been making an exception for Ms. Marvel for several reasons: Firstly because Kamala Khan is a damn delight, and second […]

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6/27/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:67 |


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