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This graphic novel is cute as hell, and the art is beautiful. #CBRBingo

The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang

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This was so cute! I love Jen Wang’s art, and she’s apparently just as good at story as she is at bringing a world to life visually. The Prince and the Dressmaker is about Frances and Sebastian. Frances is a seamstress who accidentally catches the eye of the crown prince of Belgium, Sebastian. Sebastian has a secret. When no one is watching, he loves to wear beautiful dresses. He hires Frances to make some for him, but his plan to not show her his face falls through almost immediately, but to his surprise, she accepts him immediately and becomes inspired […]

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8/13/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:98 |

Right book, right time.

The False Prince (The Ascendance Trilogy, #1) by Jennifer A. Nielsen

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This is one of those times where a book hit me just right, and it was just what I was in the mood for at the time of reading it. I was craving something fluffy and maybe a tad predictable, yet comforting, after reading some downer books about tough subjects. And this perfectly fit the bill. I’m not the target audience for this book, at all, but I still really enjoyed it. (I would have been obsessed if I’d read it when I was a kid.) The premise here is that our main character, Sage, is a fourteen year old […]

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8/3/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:91 |

Texas noir. #CBRBingo

Bluebird, Bluebird (Highway 59, #1) by Attica Locke

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Project: Catch Up On Review Backlog commences. No promises on the quality of my next ten or so reviews. I just want to get them done. (This will probably unfortunately result in subpar reviews for books that deserve much better.) Let’s start with a book I finished over a month ago, Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke. First things first, this book was incredibly well done. It’s a crime book set in Texas, featuring a black Texas Ranger as its protagonist. I knew that going in. I also knew that the author had previously said that her books were “too black […]

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8/2/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:88 |

This is hard to get through, even if you’re normally okay while reading books about rape.

Not That Bad: Dispatches From Rape Culture by ed. Roxane Gay

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I have never had such a hard time getting through a book that I liked. “Liked” actually feels like the wrong word here. How can I say I liked something that made me angry and frustrated almost 100% of the way through, and which filled me with dread every time I tried to convince myself to pick it back up again? Perhaps “appreciated”? Understand is necessary? See its importance? But not liked. I didn’t expect this reaction, even though rape is a tough subject to read about under the best circumstances, because I’ve never really read about it the way […]

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7/9/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:80 |

I can see why people love this, but I didn’t.

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

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This was really well-written, but I wasn’t in the mood for it. Three stars for now, but probably if I had been in the mood, it would have been four stars, so let’s split the difference. The Poisonwood Bible is an important book, one that is probably good for everyone to read and think about it. The book follows the story of the Price family. The father, Nathan, is a Baptist preacher whose gotten it in to his head to save the souls of the entirety of Africa with just his bare hands, and he’s taken his family, a wife […]

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6/7/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:74 |

Winter in Russia, and a monster in the dark.

The Bear and the Nightingale (Winternight Trilogy, #1) by Katherine Arden

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This was not quite what I was expecting. I think I was expecting something more along the lines of Naomi Novik’s Uprooted, because people have compared them endlessly, but aside from taking inspiration from Russian folklore, the two books don’t have very much in common. Uprooted is a fairytale, albeit one that is lengthened and deepened. The Bear and the Nightingale is a historical fantasy that is historical fiction first, fantasy second. This book takes place in medieval Russia, then called Rus’. The daughter of the prince of Moscow is married off to a rural boyar (Russian aristocracy) because her […]

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6/5/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:70 |

“Money pads the edges of things. God help those who have none.”

Howards End by E.M. Forster

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First, a confession. I can count on my right hand the number of books in my lifetime I haven’t finished. As a rule, I finish all books I start (even if it takes years). You never know when they will turn around on you. This used to be one of the few. I was in my last year of grad school at the time, and only got about 80% of the way through before our class discussion, and just . . . never got around to actually finishing it (the ending was of course spoiled for me during our discussion.) […]

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6/5/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:69 |

“Don’t ignore half of me so you can fit me into a box.”

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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Really, really glad I suggested this one for my IRL book club. I’d heard great things, and wasn’t disappointed. It’s historical fiction, and it plays with some weighty themes, but it never stops being a fun read. It’s this great mix of serious historical fiction (with a focus that feels totally fresh) and trashy beach read. I say “trashy” not because the book itself is trashy, but its subject matter–Old Hollywood–can’t help but evoke that gossipy, tell-all feeling. Especially since the premise of the book is literally a tell-all. And Evelyn doesn’t hold back. The book is told in frame. […]

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5/30/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:64 |


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