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I finally tackle the Temeraire series (four months ago). #CBRBingo – And So It Begins

His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, #1) by Naomi Novik

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This is why I never DNF books. Well, that and the OCD (legit, not just using it facetiously). I had a hard time getting into this (I’ve had a hard time getting into several books the last couple of months–my brain is not wanting to cooperate with me). It took me what felt like weeks to get past the first thirty pages. And it’s not like what was there was bad, I just couldn’t engage myself in it for some reason. Novik styles the book as if it were really written by someone living in 1804, and the diction and […]

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9/30/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:75 |

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 |

Very skeptical going in to this, but I quite enjoyed myself. Thanks, Read Harder!

Orange: The Complete Collection, Vol. 1 by Ichigo Takano

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This wasn’t my first manga, but it was the first I enjoyed. I tried Sailor Moon years ago, and was super not into it. In hindsight, I may have been unfair to it, and being unfamiliar with the conventions of manga and anime probably contributed, but still. Not a fan. But I was into this right away! I probably wouldn’t have ever picked it up, despite several friends having read and enjoyed it, except for the Read Harder Challenge this year (thanks Read Harder, doing your job!) requiring a book of manga. It was between this one and Fruits Basket, […]

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6/24/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:61 |

I read this for the Read Harder Challenge, but I would have read it anyway.

If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo

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So I wrote in my initial review of this book: “Something about the climax of this book didn’t work perfectly for me, will try to suss out why later, but the rest of this was lovely. Really glad I read it. You know a book is good when you’re so caught up in it you don’t notice you’re reaching the last pages, and then it’s over and you’re sad.” It’s been a little too long since I finished this now, and I can’t really remember details enough to be able to suss out my reaction like I wanted to. Noting […]

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6/20/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:56 |

I don’t really know why I disliked this book about time-traveling bodyswaps in Tudor England.

Spark by Catherine Friend

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This book made me very cranky. In fact, I ended up disliking it so much I requested a refund from Amazon, which I guess they don’t normally do if you don’t like a book on Kindle. (They gave it to me, But just this once, because I’m such a loyal customer! Honestly, though, it was a $10 e-book and I did not tolerate it enough to permanently part with $10.) Honestly, I’m not sure how informative this review will end up being if you’re curios about the book, because I’m not sure entirely why I disliked it so much. It […]

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5/10/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:48 |

My first cozy mystery.

A Quiet Life in the Country (Lady Hardcastle Mysteries, #1) by T E Kinsey

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Yet another book where I really just want a 3.5 star rating. I liked it more than three stars, but I didn’t like it enough for four. This was a fun, cozy little mystery set in England in 1908. It follows Florence “Flo” Armstrong, our narrator, who is a servant of the Lady Emily Hardcastle, but she and her employer have a singular relationship. They are more like friends than employer and employee, due to events that happened in their mysterious past, a past which is given to us in trickles and drabbles over the course of the book, and […]

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4/10/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:38 |

This made me track down a movie I loved as a kid about a polar bear that was totally based on Cupid and Psyche.

Mythology by Edith Hamilton

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This is one of those books you hear about and then buy in a used bookstore and it languishes on your bookshelves for years until you finally pick it up, and then you just end up thinking to yourself, why didn’t I pick this up sooner? Only, it’s also one of those books that really works better as a reference than as a book you sit down and read from cover to cover. I read this book over the course of most of February, in bits and pieces, and it worked well that way. This book is a classic for […]

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3/19/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:29 |

Also I just watched Girls Trip for the first time and it was pretty great.

The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish

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This was a pretty good listen. There were parts during the first third or so where I was actually laughing out loud, and I don’t do that very much. Mostly it’s just inward laughter or maybe a small noise of some sort to indicate my own amusement to myself. She was cracking me up, though (definitely do the audio if you’re going to do it at all; the swamp tour story alone is worth it). But then a single chapter had to go and ruin it for me. Most of the book is delightful. Tiffany clearly wrote the book herself; […]

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3/9/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:26 |


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