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They understood their strength, all at once

The Power by Naomi Alderman

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CANNONBALL!!!! Sorry. I just can’t believe that it happened this fast for me. Back in the olden days of CBR 3,  I read mostly shortish YA books and still struggled to eke out 52 books and reviews by the deadline. Now that I am drunk on CBR 10 early completion power…..let’s talk Naomi Alderman’s “The Power.” The premise itself is very simple.  Young women begin to have the ability to harness electricity and manipulate it. Its source is a mysterious skein located in their collar bones. Once the young women are aware of this, they discover that they can also awaken […]

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10/4/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:52 |

Star Wars for Adults

Saga, Volume 9 by Fiona Staples and Brian K. Vaughan

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Read as part of CBR 10 Bingo: Banned book. The Saga comics have been banned in several states and continue to be one of the most challenged books in public libraries across the nation. I’m not a science fiction guy. I read a little science fiction and a little fantasy but my bailiwick is mystery. I don’t really like graphic novels either. That would make me an unlikely fan of the Saga series. But any time these books come out, they’re absolute must reads for me. The “Star Wars for adults” line is an accurate one. Saga is a space opera with adult themes, graphic language and […]

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10/2/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:28 |

“It Was A Pleasure To Burn” – Fahrenheit 451

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

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The kid is in high school now, and although her getting older must mean that I, too, must be getting older (yikes!), there are a few perks. One of them is getting to watch her discover things, like some great books that I read when I was around her age. First up is Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, a dystopian masterpiece. The story of a society, perhaps our own, that has decided that the ideas included in books are dangerous, seems eerily prescient. The floor-to-ceiling view screens that most of society, including the protagonist Guy Montag’s wife Mildred spend their days […]

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10/1/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:19 |

“I hate caring about stuff. But apparently once you start, you can’t just stop.”

Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3) by Martha Wells

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Murderbot is on a mission. A mission of vengeance. He’s* determined to bring the corporation GrayCris as much pain as possible, and has a plan to do it. Except he keeps getting distracted by all these pesky humans who need helping all the time; dammit, that’s not his job anymore, and he doesn’t like them anyway! (He sort of likes them.) *I have once again reverted to male pronouns for this character. I give up and surrender to my brain. I honestly didn’t even know I was doing it until I proofread the review. Can we just have an official […]

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9/30/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:121 |

Jasper Fforde’s silly brand of satire returns, a little bit darker this time around.

Early Riser by Jasper Fforde

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Jasper Fforde hasn’t released a new book since 2014, and that is a long time for him. I have been waiting and waiting (so patiently) for the third Nursery Crime book, but it just doesn’t seem to be happening. Neither does the second Shades of Grey book. But now there is this book, which is not actually out in the US until 2019, so I bought it from Book Depository. I’m glad I did this anyway because the UK cover is so much better than the American one. It has a cutout cover and when you lift it up those people […]

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9/28/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:114 |

Locked room murder mystery, in space!

Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty

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I stayed up entirely too late finishing this. It was really very hard for me to put down, and that alone earns it the privilege of being bumped up to four stars. I did have some quibbles with it, but in the end they were minor, and I was compelled by the book to finish (always a good sign). Six Wakes, to boil it down, is about six clones on a generation ship who wake up to find that they have all been murdered, and they have lost twenty-five years of memory. The murderer is unknown, and is almost certainly […]

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9/11/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:113 |

“It was stupid not to live your life to the fullest when you could die tomorrow, and I sure as shit wasn’t about to take hell for that from some macho skullhead idiot.”

Fortune's Pawn (Paradox, #1) by Rachel Bach

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This was fun! I think I might have had even more fun with it by audio, or hard copy, but all my library had was the e-book. I don’t know why, but I have a really hard time maintaining focus on e-books if they’re not romance. Anyway, hard copy or audio for the sequels, most definitely. Devi was a fun protagonist. She is extremely good at her job, and she is very ambitious. She wants to be a Devastator, the most elite fighters on her homeworld of Paradox. And she doesn’t want to wait until she’s old, especially since armored […]

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9/10/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:109 |

Annihilation: Consistently CREEPY

Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer

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While I missed Annihilation in theatres, I was very pleased to see it show up on Netflix. I know there were some mixed reviews, but it certainly got people talking and I was thrilled to see a cast made up almost entirely of women (TESSA THOMPSON) in a real science fiction movie to boot. I had not read the book prior to seeing the movie and had tried to avoid reviews with spoilers. I found the movie deeply unsettling – moody and dark with interesting imagery; much like Ex Machina (also directed by Alex Garland), Arrival and Under the Skin, […]

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9/9/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:17 |


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