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Everything Is Fine

The Warehouse by Rob Hart

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The best dystopias are the ones that take the world as is and tilt it just a little off its axis in a realistic way. Octavia Butler’s Parable duology took the circumstances of white supremacy and income inequality and added a heat-ravaged climate so devastating that it fractured global society. Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America took the anti-Semitism of the WASP-dominated 1930s United States and added the specter of Europe’s fascist politics made manifest in a Nazi sympathizer being elected President. Those two have always spoken to me more than 1984 or Fahrenheit 451 and I think they have more to say. The Warehouse does the same […]

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9/5/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:89 |

Requires Research

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

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I am (mostly) unashamed to admit that my first encounter with The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, or any of Mark Twain’s books, were not in school, but on my own accord after watching Disney’s 1995 “Tom and Huck.” I was twelve, smitten with the carefree, super hot (at least I thought so at the time) characters going on crazy adventures, and after the movie was over, I wanted more. I read Tom Sawyer first and loved it since the movie follows it fairly closely.  I started Huckleberry Finn immediately after, but ninety-nine percent of the book went over my head. Written in […]

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8/20/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:27 |

Watch out, boy, she’ll chew you up

My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

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#CBR11 Bingo: Pajiba (reviewed by Kayleigh here) (Would also work for “Award winner”, “Own voices”, “Listicle”, “Cannonballer Says”, and possibly, “Far and Away”) Official book description: Korede is bitter. How could she not be? Her sister, Ayoola, is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. And now Ayoola’s third boyfriend in a row is dead. Korede’s practicality is the sisters’ saving grace. She knows the best solutions for cleaning blood, the trunk of her car is big enough for a body, and she keeps Ayoola from posting pictures of her dinner to Instagram when she should be mourning her […]

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8/5/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:61 |

Um…Hockey?

Amazons: An Intimate Memoir by the First Woman Ever to Play in the National Hockey League by "Cleo Birdwell" (Don DeLillo)

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Well then. I’ve wanted to read this book for a long time and I’ve tried many times. I’m a diehard New York Rangers fan and I thought a fictional take on what it would be like to be a female Ranger would be a blast. But after 10 pages, I soon realize that’s not what “Cleo Birdwell” (aka Don DeLillo) is going for here. This book is really about sex. Lots and lots of sex. Sexual exploration, etc. Which is fine. I’m not a prude. But wanting to read about one thing (hockey, the Rangers, gender dynamics) and instead getting […]

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7/27/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:65 |

Jasper Fforde does YA fantasy, and it works! #CBRBingo – YOUTHS!

The Last Dragonslayer (The Last Dragonslayer, #1) by Jasper Fforde

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I liked this quite a bit! And so I’ve started yet another Jasper Fforde series. I have yet to finish one, either because of my own reading preferences or because, well—actually none of his series are finished. He keeps dangling a ninth Thursday Next (I still need to read seven and eight), the third Nursery Crime book will seemingly never be written (why), we seem to never be getting Shades of Grey‘s promised two sequels, and this one has a fourth book that who even knows when it’s coming. So even if I finish reading all his books, I will […]

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7/23/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:71 |

Finally getting around to a series I’ve had on my TBR for ten years. #CBRBingo – Reading the TBR

Goblin Quest (Jig the Goblin, #1) by Jim C. Hines

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Somehow I’ve ended up reading all of Jim C. Hines’s series in reverse publication order. Jig the Goblin is the last series of his I have to read, and the first published. It’s definitely not as polished or witty as I found his later books, and perhaps I’m missing something because I don’t play Dungeons & Dragons, but it was a fun time anyway. Having read a shit ton of fantasy in my day, I felt I could still appreciate it. Plus, I get to see the origins of Smudge the fire spider! (He is also a character in the […]

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7/23/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:69 |

I might lend you a shovel, but I am NOT cleaning up after you, sister or no sister….

My Sister, the Serial Killer by Ovinkan Braithwaite

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#crb11bingo #CannonballerSays   My Sister, the Serial Killer has been reviewed several times here, but when I found faintingviolet’s review, I knew that it was going to be the one for my  #crb11bingo #CannonballerSays. Why? Because I liked the image. I liked they were not sure about reading it as they did not like horror. And frankly, why not? Ovinkan Braithwaite has a distinctive not Western voice. Therefore, this book could fill several bingo slots. It could be for Far And Away; Own Voices; and not because of the voice, even Summer Read. And I have a feeling that somewhere, […]

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7/15/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:271 |

How to probably not run the English Department at Payne U

The Shakespeare Requirement by Julie Schumacher

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The Shakespeare Requirement is part sequel, part novel, and part satire of the modern university system as seen from the mostly inside. This is one of those books that’s supposed to be fiction, but a lot of it realistic to the point of being a little scary. If you haven’t read the first novel featuring Jason Fitger (Dear Committee Members), you really should as it’s funny (especially if you have ever been to college or work at one) and it introduces his character. The Shakespeare Requirement is told in a more straightforward narration in that it’s not epistolary like its […]

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7/7/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:49 |


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