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I know why, but why?

No Way Down by Graham Bowley

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I saw this book on Instagram, maybe through the CBR account, and was suddenly desperate to get it. I am not a mountain climber nor am I a follower of mountain climbing exploits, I don’t read an enormous amount of non-fiction, and when I do, it’s not generally DISASTER non-fiction. And yet, I saw this and immediately put in a reserve request at the library. I suspect the last mountain climbing book I read was Jim Curran’s K2: Triumph and Tragedy., which examined the 1986 disaster on K2 during which 13 people died in the worst climbing disaster on K2 […]

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8/18/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:15 |

Heredity and its Tangles

She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity by Carl Zimmer

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I actually finished this book a few weeks ago, but I have been slow to pick up on the review. I think the main problem I’ve had to deal with here has been breadth. I generally try to pick up a thread or a narrative to follow for a review, but this book is just so broad and all-encompassing that I’ve had some real trouble picking just one thing to focus on and write about. To write a book that so thoroughly goes through the concept of heredity is no simple task. This isn’t an easy topic for newcomers to […]

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8/5/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:20 |

Take my wife….go on, take her.

Thy Neighbour's Wife by Gay Talese

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I first heard about Thy Neighbor’s Wife when watching Netflix’s Voyeur, a documentary about author Gay Talese and a man who’d bought a motel solely so he could peep on the activities of those renting rooms. I found Voyeur fascinating, and so when I came across this on offer, I thought I’d give it a go. Thy Neighbor’s Wife is a big, fat book, delving into the sexual mores of the American public, and the efforts of lawmakers to govern these, from the mid-twentieth century up until the seventies (before the spectre of AIDS). Talese charts the changing attitudes and […]

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7/28/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:55 |

“The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.”

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson

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So, this is a book of of words.  And science. It is actually full of science words.  And I understood most some of them!   This is supposed to be a summary of astrophysics.  A Sparknotes, if you will. A little taste to see if it’s to your liking, and if it is, you can pursue more on your own time.     First we start out with a very tiny condensed ball of all of the stuff ever.  Then it expands. Our man Neil (deGrasse Tyson) explains the expansion in terms of time, such as a millionth of a […]

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7/5/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:1 |

‘Are we talking about one body or two?’ Nilson replied, ‘Fifteen or sixteen, since 1978.’

Killing for Company by Brian Masters

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In February 1983, the residents of 23 Cranley Gardens in Muswell Hill started having problems with their drains. Calling out a plumber, the blockage would turn out to be much, much worse than the usual toilet blockages, as well as accounting for the terrible smell that had been permeating the house for some time. The resident in the attic flat had been flushing human flesh. Quickly arrested, Dennis Nilsen was extremely forthcoming with the police. As well as immediately copping to having bodies hid in his wardrobe awaiting disposal, police asked him if they were dealing with one body or […]

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6/19/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:41 |

Who lives, who dies, who tells your story?

Hamilton: The Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter

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A quick search suggests that this book has been reviewed for Cannonball at least eight times already, so it’s not like anything I say about the book is likely to be new or revolutionary (see what I did there). I don’t think there was ever any doubt that I was going to love this book, considering just how much I love the musical. I don’t remember exactly when I first heard about Hamilton, but it’s likely to be early in 2016 (I got this as a birthday gift that year from my best friend, and then postponed reading it until […]

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6/17/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:45 |

does he have a horse? is that what this is about? does he have a sword gun or a railroad or a ..a nice hat or something?

Texts From Jane Eyre by Mallory Ortberg

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I stumbled upon Ortberg’s hilarious “How to Tell if You are in a Jane Austen Novel”  a while back on The Toast  web site so when this popped up as a Goodreads recommendation I took it to heart.  A quick search of the CBR site tells me that quite a few of you have laugh snorted through this one. It’s a difficult one to review and I’m very tempted to just say, it’s very funny so go read it,  but there is that pesky 250 word minimum for reviews that needs to be addressed, so…. The basics here are as follows: […]

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6/16/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:29 |

“There is an English dream of a warm summer evening on a branch-line train”

The Kingdom By The Sea by Paul Theroux

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I’ve had this sat on my kindle for the longest time – I read Mosquito Coast (and loved it) years ago, and so thought I’d give Theroux’s travel writing a go. Sat on a beach in Portwrinkle on a glorious day, a jaunt around the British coast seemed just the ticket. Having already lived in London for years by that point, Theroux decided to travel clockwise around the British coast as a way of getting to know the country better. Starting at the bottom of the south-east coast, just a short train trip away from his home, Theroux picks his […]

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6/4/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:37 |


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