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#CBR10Bingo: Fahrenheit 451 – The Hate U Give

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

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#CBR10Bingo: Fahrenheit 451 (one of the ten most banned or challenged books in 2017) Starr feels like she’s living two lives, and in a way she is. She goes to a prestigious private school along with her siblings, where they are among the only black students. She has a white boyfriend, who calls her “Fresh Princess”, thinking she’s a bit like Will Smith in The Fresh Prince of Bel Air. She lives in a poor and rough neighbourhood, where drug dealing and gun violence isn’t unusual. Her black friends wonder if she thinks she’s too good for them. Starr’s father spent much […]

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10/29/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:92 |

Racism is Racism, No Matter What Time Period

The Secret River by Kate Grenville

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Last summer I helped my boss chaperone his student study-abroad trip to Australia, and the class read this book on the plane going over. I was far more enticed with Air New Zealand’s extensive on-flight entertainment package, and so I spent my plane ride in the iron-a** challenge watching all six (extended) Lord of the Rings and Hobbit films instead.  Since returning, my boss has been passively placing The Secret River in obvious places on my desk, which I’ve learned is his silent way of saying it’s a book I really need to read. He’s adorable, my boss.  Bingo seemed […]

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10/29/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:23 |

I’ve been waiting for this moment for Cannonball my life, oh Lord

Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

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CBR10Bingo: Backlog (Cannonball! and Bingo! Woohoo!) After reading a few Sherman Alexie books a few years ago, Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony started popping up in my suggestions, and for some reason, I thought it was poetry rather than a novel. Once I read the description, I put it on my wishlist, where it languished for several months until I finally bought a copy last summer at The Last Bookstore in downtown Los Angeles on a long lunch break from jury duty. I’ve pulled it off my bookshelf a few times when looking for my next read but never quite pulled […]

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9/8/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:52 |

Every time I laugh I know that I am laughing into the darkness

The Book of Memory by Petina Gappah

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Petina Gappah’s The Book of Memory is a remarkable and taut exploration of prejudice, history, and of course, memory. The book’s narrator and namesake, Memory, is an albino woman on death row in a Zimbabwean prison who is encouraged by her new lawyer to write her story for an American journalist who may be able to help win her freedom. Memory writes of the stark everyday life in prison and of the circumstances that have brought her there. But to fully explain, she must begin with what she remembers of her own history, centered around one pivotal, traumatic event: her […]

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7/31/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:39 |

I don’t want to review this book

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

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Pachinko, Min Jin Lee’s novel following multiple generations of a Korean family through most of the 20th Century, has received a lot of positive attention: finalist for the National Book Award, 10 best books of 2017 for the New York Times Book Review, Roxane Gay’s favorite book of the year (according to the Washington Post). And from what I’ve seen, the reviews here at CBR have been universally positive. So I’m at a bit of a loss, because I really didn’t enjoy it. At all. I was bored, and it took me forever to slog through it. Yet I also […]

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6/29/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:34 |

Everybody makes one another’s terrible mistakes

Carry On by Rainbow Rowell

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I read this book too fast. I didn’t intend to. I picked it out as my travel book for a week of work and visiting friends in Boston, thinking I’d chip away a little each day. Then I read most of it on the flight out and finished it the next day because I just. couldn’t. help myself.  In writing these reviews for #CBR10, I’m beginning to wonder if the amount of detail I retain is inversely proportional to the amount of time it takes me to read a book. I loved this book and have thought about it a […]

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6/24/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:33 |

Don’t Expect Logical Actions from Racists

Dread Nation by Justina Ireland

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Thank you so much to caitycat! I doubt I would have stumbled across this novel without her review, and I thoroughly enjoyed it despite some minor complaints about potential red herrings or loose threads. The novel is set near Baltimore in 1880.  The North never won the Civil War because of the zombie outbreak that followed the Battle of Gettysburg, leading to a quick reconciliation between the two sides to face the common threat to the survival of humanity.  Slaves were declared free, but, for many, there is not much difference between their former lives and current – they don’t […]

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6/18/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:112 |

We all have biases, or “Why grandma might suddenly sound like a racist”

The Hidden Brain: How Our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars, and Save Our Lives by Shankar Vedantam

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Twelve years ago, my grandmother passed away at the age of 94. Born in 1912, she was the product of a different time, but other than maybe telling a slightly off-color joke or wondering out loud why there were so many more homosexuals around these days than when she was young, I don’t recall her being prejudiced against any particular group (except maybe Italians, but that’s a story for another day). Apparently in her final days in the nursing home, however, she started loudly proclaiming that the African American orderlies were planning on sexually assaulting her. What gives, grandma? Suddenly […]

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5/26/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:15 |


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