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Extraordinary Mathmatics

What It Means When a Man Falls From the Sky: Stories by Lesley Nneki Arimah

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If you aren’t listening to the Levar Burton Reads podcast, you are denying yourself so much joy and comfort. Following the advice of Keh_squared on Twitter, I listened to episode 5 of Levar Burton Reads. Lavar Burton read Lesley Nneka Arimah’s award winning short story “What It Means When a Man Falls From The Sky.” And then I listened again, and again for a third time. I found a PDF of the short story and read it. It might be one of my favorite books this year. At some time in the future, the geography of the world has changed. […]

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10/13/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:98 |

Humans Are Monsters

The Power by Naomi Alderman

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  Public figures like Bill Cosby, Bill Clinton, Harvey Weinstein and our (not my) president make the news for being men who use their positions of power and privilege to abuse women; to demean them, to call them sluts and whores, to make them feel weak. The sad state of things though is this isn’t a privilege reserved for men of wealth and power.  All men can wield this power, if they choose to (in some circumstances).   I think most women can think of a time where a man who wasn’t rich and famous made us feel powerless in some way it […]

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10/12/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:21 |

Clones in Space

Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty

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In Six Wakes, The Dormire, a generational ship travelling to colonize the planet Athena, is manned by six clones and an AI. It is the responsibility of the clones, with the help of the AI, to fly the ship, make any needed repairs and keep the cargo of humans, clones and homesteading materials safe. Clones are chosen to man the ship due to the fact that the journey to Athena will take hundreds of years.  And, unlike a human crew, when the clones die, the rest of the crew members recycle their bodies and use their mindmaps to create new […]

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7/7/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:24 |

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The Circle by Dave Eggers

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Anyone remember this gem (for the link-wary, it’s the trailer to the 2001 film Antitrust)? This book is basically that movie, 10-15 years later. They’re both entertaining, just not incredibly sophisticated. It’s amusing that a film based on this book is now set to be released in April 2017, because though The Circle is technically an original property, it reads like a watered-down reboot of a great many superior predecessors. I’ve gotta think that made it really attractive to Hollywood: it’s digestible and familiar, but isn’t obviously a remake or franchise installment. The axes of technology, totalitarianism, human impressionability, and […]

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3/30/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:22 |

Secrets are lies. [Also, pizza gif within]

The Circle by Dave Eggers

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“Secrets are lies” Holy mother of Jesus. I can’t even with this book. I’d been hearing about this book for ages, mostly praise, but I was unsure that I could handle ANOTHER book about “social media = bad” and technology is super duper dangerous. To be fair, the book did not immediately quell my fears. The first part was slow going and had me rolling my eyes slightly at the obvious parody of facegooglespacehoo. Then I burnt my bread. That’s not a euphemism. I’d put a couple of buns in the oven for breakfast and figured I’d just read a […]

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2/27/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:6 |

The Stand: Not a book you want to read when coming down with a cold…

The Stand by Stephen King

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So my first proper book I’ve read this year is The Stand. To be honest, I can’t believe I haven’t read it before. I tried about ten years ago, when I was probably early on in my undergrad, and… just couldn’t get through it. I think I got stuck on an early Larry chapter at some point (because let’s face it, he is The Worst) and just found I didn’t care enough about any of the characters to go on. This time, though, I was hooked. A short summary for those who haven’t read: A superflu that kills 99% of the population […]

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1/15/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:2 |

In which I project my hypocritical political ire…

Underground Airlines by Ben H. Winters

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Set in an alternate United States, in which Abraham Lincoln was assassinated before taking office, the Civil War was never fought, and slaves were never emancipated, Underground Airlines is the story of a young black man (who goes by various names) working as a bounty hunter for the US Marshal service. His job? Hunting escaped slaves in contemporary America. First, this was a very well-written book. It’s in the style of a hard-boiled detective novel, and the world building by Ben Winters is fairly well thought out. My only gripe there is that this United States is almost exactly the […]

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12/3/2016 | 's CBR8 Review No:100 |

“I used to be someone.”

The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson

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Dramatic irony — simply, the idea that the audience knows something that the character doesn’t — is a common tension-building storytelling device. From the point of view of the audience, it’s oppositional from the “plot twist,” where the character(s) and the audience are both in the dark and they figure out the crucial, shocking bit of information at the same time, and it completely transforms the story, both moving forward and retroactively. There are the stories that play both sides. They don’t explicitly inform the audience what’s going on, but there are enough strong hints dropped that when the bolt […]

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9/21/2016 | 's CBR8 Review No:68 |


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