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Everything okay, even the Armadillo

But Not the Armadillo by Sandra Boynton

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I really adore Sandra Boynton’s work. Her whimsical, quirky and bright illustrations and delightfully charming text has many memories of reading to children or just experiencing it with the eyes of a child well into my adulthood. When I saw that she had a new book coming out I was overjoyed! But perhaps I was expecting too much. Perhaps I just had too high hopes for it, but when I read But Not the Armadillo it did not live up to expectations. Sadly, it just fell a bit flat for me. All the usual elements of her work are there: […]

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10/10/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:378 |

An Old theme told again

Pink Is for Boys by Robb Pearlman

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Pink Is for Boys has a theme (all colors are for everyone as well as flowers, rainbows, etc.) that is obvious from the time you look at the cover of the book. You see both a boy and girl painting with all the colors, and of course, pink is being colored by the boy and blue by the girl. By the end of the book the theme has become almost repetitive.   The illustrations are nice and simple but have details, too. What you need (the color and the text explaining what is happening) is all there. I must admit […]

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7/31/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:289 |

The Play’s the Thing

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Play a Play by Richard R. George and Roald Dahl

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The edition of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Play a Play I read is no longer in print. Hopefully this new edition is just a new cover and has not changed the work of Richard R. George . Roald Dahl introduces the play with a short introduction of how it was sent to him. The end of the play has staging, lighting and other ideas of how you can perform this version yourself. The middle is the play. It follows the movie closely in areas (with many of the “Hollywood” details obviously taken out) and since I have never read […]

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7/10/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:256 |

Good news everyone! Oscar Wilde’s reputation is still well deserved!

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

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I always feel weird reviewing classics. It’s like, what am I going to say about Oscar Wilde that hasn’t already been said? Surprise, surprise, Oscar Wilde’s work is still perfect. Surprise, surprise, Oscar Wilde was super witty and reading his work is a complete joy. Surprise, surprise, Wilde’s life ended in tragedy and I still wonder what other magnificent works we could have had from him if it hadn’t been for the awful societal prejudice of his time. Obviousness aside, I do really recommend the L.A. Theatre Works dramatized audio version I listened to while reading. Even with plays I’m […]

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2/3/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:17 |

Turns out I’m not boring! I just play boringly.

Play: How it shapes the brain, opens the imagination, and invigorates the soul by Stuart Brown

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“The opposite of play isn’t work. It’s depression.” Stuart Brown’s book on play promises a lot; it’s not just a description of play, but play’s role in society and necessity in social and cognitive development. He traverses the animal kingdom to make his points in the first half and in the last half he veers off track and becomes totally anecdotal. First of all the whole animal thing could be science sure, whatever, but there is no way of telling, because there are LITERALLY NO SOURCES IN A BOOK WRITTEN BY AN ACADEMIC. *breathes* Okay, so Brown should just have […]

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2/3/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:5 |

Will the Real Inspector Hound please stand up?

The Real Inspector Hound and Other Plays by Tom Stoppard

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When faintingviolet told me that the next book club topic was going to be plays, I immediately thought of The Real Inspector Hound.  I had never read it, but I had seen it performed in college, and it was by far one of the better plays I had seen.  I remembered that it was funny and entertaining, and on the lighter side as well.  (And luckily for people who are not all that terribly fond of reading plays, on the short side!)  So, if you didn’t like it, I suppose you can place a lot of the blame on me […]

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12/15/2017 's CBR9 Review No:31 |

Book Club Discussion Post: The Real Inspector Hound

The Real Inspector Hound by Tom Stoppard

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Are you ready for our final book club of the year? Well, ready or not here we go to cap off another year of reading and discussing together! The Real Inspector Hound is a quick, funny play where Tom Stoppard takes aim at theatre, critics, reality, and fate. While its one act zips by in 50 pages or less, it still manages to have opinions about our place in the world around us. Ground rules remain the same as before, discuss in the comments below, try to respond directly to someone’s ideas as suits your own ponderings, and refer to […]

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12/13/2017 's CBR9 Review No:0 |

Well, I think I’ll go and oil my gun.

The Real Inspector Hound by Tom Stoppard

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Opening salvo, hot take: everything Tom Stoppard has ever written is incredible; this isn’t his best work. The Real Inspector Hound is the first live production of a Stoppard play I ever saw, followed about a year and a half later by Arcadia. So, I will always be grateful to Hound for preparing me, because otherwise Arcadia might have melted my brain, and working directly with Tom (humblebrag) on The Coast of Utopia would have been the actual death of me. Hound is a delight. It takes on the absurdity of the business of criticism and the entitlement of understudies […]

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12/13/2017 's CBR9 Review No:47 |


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