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So did you know Napoleon wrote romance novels early in his career?

Ambition and Desire: The Dangerous Life of Josephine Bonaparte by Kate Williams

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#CBR11 Bingo: True Story From Goodreads: Their love was legendary, their ambition flagrant and unashamed. Napoleon Bonaparte and his wife, Josephine, came to power during one of the most turbulent periods in the history of France. The story of the Corsican soldier’s incredible rise has been well documented. Now, in this spellbinding, luminous account, Kate Williams draws back the curtain on the woman who beguiled him: her humble origins, her exorbitant appetites, and the tragic turn of events that led to her undoing. Born Marie-Josèphe-Rose de Tascher de La Pagerie on the Caribbean island of Martinique, the woman Napoleon would […]

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7/21/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:44 |

This book is cute. Wombats are way cuter.

The Secret World of Wombats by Jackie French

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CBR11bingo: I LOVE THIS What do I love? Wombats! To be fair, I’m partial to animals in general. I even try to coexist peacefully with centipedes, in spite of them giving me massive heebie jeebies. But wombats belong to that incredible group of mammals known as marsupials, of which I’m something of an aficionado. As my friends and more than a few disinterested strangers know, I volunteer on the weekends as a docent at the Los Angeles Zoo, where I not only educate the public about wildlife and conservation but also teach the incoming docent class about marsupials. So I’m […]

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7/17/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:30 |

Can You See Me America?

I Am Not Your Negro by James Baldwin

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I heard about the movie, but had no idea there was a companion book to it.   “In his final years, Baldwin had envisioned a book about his three assassinated friends, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King. His deeply personal notes for the project have never been published before. Peck’s film uses them to jump through time, juxtaposing Baldwin’s private words with his public statements, in a blazing examination of the tragic history of race in America.” The writing, essays, the photos that were used are powerful and makes one want to hang your head down and wonder […]

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7/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:168 |

Infamy, infamy! They’ve all got it infamy!

Dangerous Days in the Roman Empire by Terry Deary

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Dangerous Days in the Roman Empire is the second of my Terry Deary haul and proved to be far more information packed than the one I read on Ancient Egypt, covering three centuries of Roman history from the rule of Augustus to Rome’s fall. While lip service is given to some aspects of plebeian life, such as a look at some of the jobs that a Roman citizen might have, it’s very much a look at its rulers instead in a whistlestop tour through the good, the bad and the mad emperors (and noting that each emperor had something in […]

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7/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:25 |

Provocative, uneven collection of essays (Bingo!)

The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen Scientist by Richard P. Feynman

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Cbr11bingo Science. BINGO! These essays are by turns provocative and exasperating. Richard P. Feynman, who died in 1988, was a brilliant physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in 1965. He also was part of the Manhattan Project, was a distinguished lecturer at Cal Tech, and served as a member of the Rogers Commission which investigated the Challenger disaster. The Meaning of It All is a short collection of three lectures that Feynman gave in 1963. In these lectures his goal was to discuss the impact of science on other fields of study. It’s a mixed bag. The first two essays […]

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7/15/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:32 |

Trying to Take a Historical Lens to Family Didn’t Work This TIme

The Yellow House by Sarah Broom

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Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. This book will be released on August 13, 2019.  Well cutting to the chase I really didn’t like this one. I was all ready to fall in love with a nonfiction story where the author talks about her family living in New Orleans East. A place that I have never heard about. Instead the big jumps around a lot and Broom at times talks about her family as if they were these people she doesn’t know. I kept getting confused everytime she talked […]

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7/15/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:164 |

Writing from the middle…

It's Not Supposed To Be This Way: Finding Unexpected Strength When Disappointments Leave You Shattered by Lysa TerKeurst

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One of my hesitations with books in the genre of “Read this when your life is falling apart; I was in the same place, and this is how everything miraculously got better”, is that I find them to be discouraging while you’re actually in the middle of a life crisis of your own. I don’t want to hear about the lessons you learned when life turned around, because what if my story doesn’t end that way. If there’s no end to the pain that I’m feeling, if there’s no miracle to change my circumstances, your lessons and celebrations don’t apply…and […]

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7/12/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:14 |

Tan Rocks!

Naturally Tan by Tan France

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So I have to admit something. Out of all of the Queer Eye guys, I love Tan the best. I just love his accent, his hair, and his delight he gets in clothes and helping others look their best and be comfortable with their bodies. I always hated clothes shopping with my mother because she loved to just plop me in anything that was pink with ruffles. I was her only girl and I got it, but good grief when I see pictures of me as a kid I want to give myself a wedgie. Back to Tan, this memoir […]

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7/11/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:160 |


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