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Yup, still holds up

Unraveled by Courtney Milan

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This is a re-read, and my original review for this book can be found here. As with the other Milans I’ve been revisiting, I wanted to listen to this in audio, but discovered, to my dismay that it wasn’t narrated by Polly Lee, who did the first two books in The Turner series, but Nicole Quinn, whose voice just did NOT work for me. I tried to warm to her throughout the first chapter, but gave up and returned the audio. Unraveled is my favourite book in this trilogy and still, so many years after I first read it (end of 2011) on of […]

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4/14/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:27 |

This affected me so much more this time around

Unclaimed by Courtney Milan

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This is my first re-read of this book. My original review can be found here. With the other two books in The Turners series, I have re-read the books more than once over the years. I read Unclaimed back in 2011 and haven’t revisited it since. Until now. While I would still rank it as the weakest of the three books in the trilogy, that is only really because one of the books has to come in third place. In my memory, Mark and Jessica’s story wasn’t as engrossing and emotionally satisfying as that of Ash and Margaret or Smite and his Miranda Darling (review […]

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4/14/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:26 |

Liked it better the first time I read it

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

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3.5 stars I read this book for the first time back in October 2012. My review from back then can be found here. Back then, I rated the book 4 stars and from my write-up, I really appeared to enjoy it. The first Cannonball Read Book Club of the year was a discussion of this book, since the star-studded movie version, directed by Ava DuVernay will be in cinemas any day now. From the trailers and promotional material, the movie looks like it’s going to be visually stunning, and DuVernay has also chosen to make Meg bi-racial, played by newcomer Storm Reid, with […]

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3/7/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:13 |

“Night wasn’t so much falling as sharpening its claws.”

Turn Coat (The Dresden Files, #11) by Jim Butcher

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As with almost every book in this series, I liked it better this time. I’ve said this before, but there are advantages to reading the hard copies of the books, as much as I love the audio versions with James Marsters. And one of those advantages is it just takes so much less time to read a physical book, and stuff that you’re not enjoying either goes faster or you can skip it outright. I remember when I read this book the first time it just felt a little too long, a little to dragged out. But this time it […]

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3/4/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:29 |

Revisiting an old favourite

Unveiled by Courtney Milan

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4.5 stars A long time ago now, back in April 2011, I first discovered Courtney Milan as an author, having read favourable things about her on various romance review blogs. My original review of this book, can be found here. Fondly as I remember Ash and Margaret’s story, this is not the Turner series book I’ve revisited most often. According to my records, I’ve only re-read it once before, back in 2012, so I was very interested to see if it was as good as I remembered. I listened to the book in audio (because I’m still not advanced enough to wrangle my […]

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3/2/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:11 |

Comfort re-reading while I keep my tiny human alive

The Hating Game by Sally Thorne

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This is my fourth re-read of The Hating Game, and my original review for the book can be found here. Also this book will contain mild spoilers for the story, so if you haven’t read it, drop everything and come back once you have (it’s awesome, I promise), you may want to avoid this until then. It’s difficult for me to pinpoint exactly what I find so comforting about this book, but it really does work for me on every level. This was my favourite book of 2016, and I read it three times from early August when it came out until […]

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2/22/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:9 |

Kicking off CBR10 by re-reading a childhood favorite.

The Hork-Bajir Chronicles (Animorphs #22.5, Chronicles #2) by K.A. Applegate

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I still need to go back and write my review of the David trilogy (the previous three books in this series, which make up an informal trilogy), which didn’t get posted in 2017 alas and alack, but I wanted to make sure and get this review out before I start my next book of 2018. Once again, it seems, I’m starting out the year with an Animorphs Chronicles book, which are hands down my favorite books of the series. These books are honestly one of the reasons I love sci-fi so much. K.A. Applegate does so much with these 200 […]

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1/2/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:1 |

I can’t emphasize enough how good this book and this series are.

The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1) by Brandon Sanderson

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So I deleted my original review of this book on Goodreads (but not on CBR) because I’ve never been happy with it. I never felt like it fully conveyed what I was trying to say. Heck, I’m not sure I even knew what it was that I wanted to say! I remember thinking this book was so dense and a little impenetrable, and now upon my first re-read, I’ve got none of that. This time around, I sunk right into this world like it was chocolate pudding. But I *do* know exactly what I want to say this time around, […]

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12/28/2017 's CBR9 Review No:109 |


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