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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 |

It Is the Innocence Which Constitutes the Crime

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

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This book consists of two letters, one that is addressed to Baldwin’s nephew on the 100th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, and a longer one that he calls ‘A Letter from a Region in My Mind’. They concern themselves with the history and the state of race relations in the US in the 1960s, both from a very personal and a more general perspective. I put this on my TBR when I read an article in my local newspaper earlier this year, in which they praised this essay immensely and called it unforgettable. And that it is. It is singularly […]

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9/2/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:46 |

See Jane. She has a red dress. She wants to play.

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

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CBR11bingo: Own Voices I struggled for quite some time trying to decide what to read for CBR11 Bingo’s center square. I’m so glad that I finally landed on Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, not just because it’s a book I definitely should have read by now, but because it’s moving and beautiful and painful. I expected The Bluest Eye to be powerful; I didn’t expect it to be poetic. This novel tells the story of Pecola Breedlove, a young African American girl growing up in Ohio after the Great Depression. Pecola lives in the kind of horrifying poverty that most […]

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8/25/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:36 |

“You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they’ve been read.” (CBR11 Bingo)

The Bone People by Keri Hulme

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I don’t know if I knew what to expect when I decided to read The Bone People. I knew it had won the Booker Prize, which isn’t always a great indicator if I’m going to enjoy a book or not, and that it was an Own Voices book by a New Zealand author. Keri Hulme spent over a decade crafting a story of people of Maori heritage in the part of the country she still lives in, and she was steadfast in writing the novel in the way that made sense to her – notoriously refusing to let any publishing […]

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8/12/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:35 |

Hurricanes Can Be Inside, Just as Much as Outside

Hurricane Season by Nicole Melleby

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I always have a little trepidation reviewing a book written by someone I know in a professional capacity, so as much as I’ve been excited to read Hurricane Season since finding out it was being published last year, I was also really worried about giving it an honest review. But not only can I say that I enjoyed it, but it was so good it made me cry the good tears and I want to ship a copy to literally every person I know.  I’m not usually one to read YA or middle-grade, but this was a special story. Fig […]

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8/12/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:25 |

The past is a black hole, cut into the present day like a wound, and if you come too close, you can get sucked in.

Severance by Ling Ma

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Severance is a beautiful book with a lovely pink cover and a mysterious title. It opens and unfolds slowly as you read and then it just stops. It jumps backwards and forwards in time in a slow, meandering pace that feels like it ultimately amounts to nothing. We begin by meeting Candace in a post-apocalyptic world where most of the population has succumbed to Shen fever. Candace has joined a small band of survivors, but she spends most of her time reminiscing about the time before, what her life was like, and her family. To live in a city is […]

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8/10/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:19 |

The issue has always been land

The Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King

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Thomas King is a dual American-Canadian citizen of mixed heritage (Wikipedia lists Cherokee, German and Greek backgrounds), and he identifies strongly with his Cherokee heritage.  He is also quite the storyteller, in the best possible way. King starts his “account” of North American history by refusing to label it as a history- noting, in fact that all histories are “stories we tell about the past”.  He provides a sweeping overview of Indian-White relations in the US and Canada, in more or less chronological (though expressly non-encompassing) order.  He occasionally goes off on tangents, and the topics that interest him get […]

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8/9/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:34 |

There’s an Important Story and Message Hidden Somewhere in This Thing

Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue

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Bingo Square: Own Voices I’d been debating between this and Everything I Never Told You for this category but since I had just read The Bride Test, which was about an Vietnamese-American family and am thinking about reading a book about a Chinese family for my “Back to School” read, I figured I should diversify instead of reading about a Chinese-American family for this.  Imbolo Mbue is originally from Cameroon and has lived in the United States for ten years, and her novel follows a family of immigrants from Cameroon trying to make it in the US. I knew this […]

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7/31/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:15 |


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