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Skewer the rich

Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan

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Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan was the April Mocha Girls Read book club selection. The story revolves around the romance between Rachel Chu and Nicholas Young. The two NY based professors are in love. Nick invites Rachel to spend the summer in Singapore with his family. Nick is the best man for his friend Colin Khoo’s wedding. The plan is to get the big event over with and travel around Asia.  Sounds fun, right? However, Nick fails to explain exactly how extensive and wealthy his family is… Rachel is woefully unprepared what to expect. Thankfully, Rachel has a college […]

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6/9/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:11 |

Go for the throat.

Carpe Jugulum (Discworld, #23) by Terry Pratchett

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I was in just exactly the right mood for this. And this was just exactly the right balance of satire, genuine laugh out loud humor, and sneaky pathos that I prefer in my Discworld books. But, hey, is this really the last of the Witches books? Are they in the Tiffany Aching ones? I’m gonna miss these ladies. (Even Magrat. And hey, she’s not too bad now that she’s a mother. Much more forceful, and less of a limp dishrag.) Firstly, this is a clever satire of vampire fiction. It was written before vampires are supposed to sexy now, or […]

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6/5/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:68 |

Satirical Dark Humor

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

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Catch-22 is a classic that I started in high school and for some reason never finished, and I wanted to give it another shot. It’s the story of a military squadron on the island of Pianosa, off the coast of Italy, during World War II. Technically, it’s more about bombardier John Yossarian than about any other character, but it’s essentially an ensemble cast. Most chapters are titled after a character, although sometimes that character only makes a brief appearance. Yossarian has flown his required number of missions and wants to go home, but squadron leader Colonel Cathcart keeps raising the number […]

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2/13/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:4 |

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 |

Some cool bits in here, and Very Silly, but not great.

The Last Continent (Discworld, #22) by Terry Pratchett

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I like the Wizards books, I do. The scenes involving them are always a good time in making fun of bureaucracy and tradition and old white men. They are also usually very silly. But I have yet to love one of the Wizard books. It’s just so hard for them to have an emotional through line like so many of Pratchett’s other books do. Like, this book wasn’t really about anything. Sure, on the surface it’s the Wizards flouncing off accidentally to Not Australia (aka XXXX aka the titular last continent) in search of Rincewind, the terminally inept but strangely […]

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1/22/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:11 |

This might be too smart for me.

The Real Inspector Hound and Other Plays by Tom Stoppard

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I am honestly not entirely sure what I thought of this? (NB: I only read The Real Inspector Hound, not any of the other plays.) On the one hand, it was a fun little one act play that took me around twenty minutes to read, and it made me laugh, and it made me go, what the hell? On the other hand, I’m 100% positive I missed things, and the cleverness of this play almost entirely went over my head. All I could think of to say in our CBR book club discussion was a bunch of pretentious bullshit about the […]

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12/30/2017 's CBR9 Review No:126 |

Or, How Not to Climb A Mountain

The Ascent of Rum Doodle by W.E. Bowman

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As someone who has paged through the expedition diaries of more than one Victorian explorer, I found a lot to like about The Ascent of Rum Doodle, a satire of those very types of people and their writing. But even if you haven’t has the pleasure of reading much in that genre, you may still find something to like within. Led by Binder, a man desperate to be the type of leader he’s read about but lacking any insight into himself and others and trying to find it by constantly questioning everyone about their fiances, his crew of men and […]

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12/30/2017 's CBR9 Review No:62 |

Vol. 2 just as non-compliant and awesome as Vol. 1.

Bitch Planet, Vol. 2: President Bitch by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Valentine De Landro

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I waited for this trade for soooo loooong of a time. And then it wasn’t long enough, like in terms of page length; I read it in about twenty minutes (cackling through most of it), and then it was over and I was sad. But it was very good. And now we have to wait even longer for Vol. 3. These are the woes you are in for when you read an ongoing comic series, but especially this one, which is agony. Vol. 2 opens up with Maeko Maki backstory (Maeko was the woman killed in the riots in Vol. […]

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9/4/2017 's CBR9 Review No:67 |


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