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As I’ve Said. Born Romantic.

Headliners by Lucy Parker

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Lucy Parker’s London Celebrity series has been one of my favorite romance series of the past few years. In general, they have been loosely connected, with characters from previous books showing up in later books. However, until Headliners, they have been stand alone books. In order to understand an important division between the MCs in Headliners you will need to have read The Austen Playbook. I will do my best to avoid spoilers, but you can assume that Freddy and Griff have ended up happily together. Near the end of The Austen Playbook, a Carlson family secret came out and was scooped by […]

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12/5/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:82 |

Rejected title: The Epic Rage of Genie Lo

The Iron Will of Genie Lo by F. C. Yee

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The Iron Will of Genie Lo picks up pretty close to where we left off with Epic Crush. Genie is now the Protector of California, splitting her time between high school (where she’s once again had leadership thrust upon her as captain of the volleyball team) and keeping yaoguai in check. It’s a fairly tightrope that’s rapidly fraying at both ends as she tries to figure out how to keep all the plates spinning without letting anyone down. Genie is angry, y’all, and possibly suffering from a not-small amount of unacknowledged anxiety. She and Yunie decide to get away for […]

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11/24/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:25 |

Look at all the ways this letter says something

Love Lettering by Kate Clayborn

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My twitter feed has been full of anticipation for Love Lettering by Kate Clayborn. I received an arc from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Meg hand letters planners, invitations, wedding programs and such for clients.  Her profile has recently gone up after being featured in the New York Times as The Planner of Park Slope. But as her professional profile has grown, she is losing her best friend for reasons she doesn’t understand and becoming blocked creatively. Reid Sutherland arrives at the stationary shop where she bases her business and confronts her about the code she included in his […]

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10/30/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:78 |

I was not prepared for just how left this one went

Ivory (Manhattan 10 #1) by Lola Dodge

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Lola Dodge kicks off a new series of superhero romance novellas with Ivory, the story of a Scandinavian goddess (maybe? it’s never quite clear on this point?) who finds herself mixed up with a superhero team. It’s 80% romance and 20% superhero fiction, if that’s relevant to you. This book didn’t work for me, for a lot of reasons. I liked the premise: super-powered flight attendant kills someone on her flight and ends up having to lie low with a team of supers who are investigating a serial killer focused on supers. So far, so good. The execution, however, was […]

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10/27/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:24 |

Lyrical historical coming of age fiction

Red Dove, Listen to the Wind by Sonia Antaki

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Thirteen year old Red Dove lives in interesting times for the Lakota people. Shortly after the Battle of the Greasy Grass (Battle of Little Big Horn), her people have fallen on hard times. Food has become scarce, and the Lakota have learned that they cannot trust the people who have settled on their lands to live peacefully. In a moment of weakness, Red Dove’s mother agrees to send her children to a local Catholic school, hoping that the children will at least find regular meals there. Red Dove’s grandfather hopes that she will also learn the ways of the Wasichu […]

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10/27/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:23 |

It’s OK, But There Are Probably Better Cookbooks for New Cooks

Hack Your Cupboard: Make Great Food with What You've Got by Alyssa Wiegand and Carla Carreon

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To start, I have to say that I hate the title. As a curmudgeon, I think that using trendy buzzwords in your title is off-putting and will age both badly and quickly. In addition, I think it’s misleading. A hack is creating a shortcut or workaround. That covers about half the book, but the book is really about developing and building on kitchen skills. The book takes the reader from still living in their family home through dorm room cooking, the first shared kitchen, to the first solo kitchen. I got this as an advance reader copy on NetGalley in […]

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10/15/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:73 |

I Wondered. “Where Are All the Black Cooks?”

The Jemima Code: Two Centuries of African American Cookbooks by Toni Tipton-Martin

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It’s one thing to know intellectually that a system of oppression requires erasure of the oppressed, and another thing to try to understand how that erasure happens and glimpse the truth being hidden. When I read Michael Twitty’s The Cooking Gene, he referenced Toni Tipton-Martin’s The Jemima Code: Two Centuries of African American Cookbooks. It immediately went on my tbr. A few weeks ago I was browsing around on NetGalley and saw it there, though it was published in 2015. I snapped it up and have been reading it off and on for the last 5 weeks. This is an […]

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10/10/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:71 |

An Update Worth Investing In, With Caveat

Tartine: A Classic Revisited: 68 All-New Recipes + 55 Updated Favorites by Elizabeth M. Prueitt, Chad Robertson

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I almost died from joy when I saw Tartine: A Classic Revisited on NetGalley, and then I was granted my request to review it (this is an honest review). I have the original Tartine (thank you Mrs. Julien). It is the cookbook I pull out when I need baking inspiration or life inspiration. Prueitt and Robertson put some thought into this update and added in some variations and many new recipes which makes it worth owning. Tartine is a baker’s cookbook. It is not for beginners. However, if you master the elements, you can turn out some impressive and creative bakes. […]

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10/5/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:70 |


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