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“Falling in love is really quite simple. You want to know the secret? It’s the same thing we are doing about life every single day. Forget there’s an ending.”

Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid

December 31, 2022 by ardaigle Leave a Comment

Reading, or listening to, the Taylor Jenkins Reid book “Daisy Jones and the Six” was one of my favorite reads of 2020; I still herald it whenever someone is looking for an audiobook, or a book, to completely fall into. Reid has the ability to write fiction so realistically that you forget that what you are reading isn’t the most engaging memoir of all time, but fiction. That was true about Daisy Jones and it’s true about this book. In Carrie Soto, Reid has rewritten […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Carrie Soto is back, goodreads awards, sports, Taylor Jenkins Reid, tennis

ardaigle's CBR14 Review No:53 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Carrie Soto is back, goodreads awards, sports, Taylor Jenkins Reid, tennis ·
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STEP.

Dragon Hoops by Gene Luen Yang

December 29, 2022 by narfna Leave a Comment

This was very wholesome. I have been a fan of Gene Luen Yang’s work for a while now, and I try to read all of his graphic novels (I have given up on his superhero comics work; there is too much of it). So when the Read Harder Challenge said I had to read a nonfiction YA comic, I was excited to finally be able to fit this one in. Dragon Hoops is a memoir of Yang’s time shadowing the Bishop O’Dowd High School basketball team […]

Filed Under: Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Non-Fiction Tagged With: basketball, Comics, dragon hoops, Gene Luen Yang, graphic novels, narfna, non fiction, read harder challenge 2022, sports

narfna's CBR14 Review No:240 · Genres: Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Non-Fiction · Tags: basketball, Comics, dragon hoops, Gene Luen Yang, graphic novels, narfna, non fiction, read harder challenge 2022, sports ·
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The sportswriter in granny glasses

Miss Mary Reporting: The True Story of Sportswriter Mary Garber by Sue Macy

November 30, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

This is BlackRaven reporting on Miss Mary Reporting: The True Story of Sportswriter Mary Garber by Sue Macy and illustrated by C. F. Payne. And I would like to say READ THIS BOOK! Okay, so you might want to know why. And the why is Because I said so! And it is a good book about a woman in sports that we do not know of and is (in my not so humble opinion) more important than the sports players themselves. Because if Mary Garber […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, History, Non-Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: 20th Century, C.F. Payne, Mary Garber, Media Studies, North Carolina, sports, sports writing, Sue Macy

BlackRaven's CBR14 Review No:579 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, History, Non-Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: 20th Century, C.F. Payne, Mary Garber, Media Studies, North Carolina, sports, sports writing, Sue Macy ·
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My first five-star TJR.

Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid

November 3, 2022 by narfna 2 Comments

Thanks to NetGalley and Ballantine Books for the ARC. It has not affected the content of my review. Oh, hey, look at that. Five stars. I think no one is more surprised about that rating than me after slowly making my way through this over the past two and a half months (this was written in August). But really, I was only slow because I didn’t expect to get this ARC, so I was reading it in between other books when I had time. But […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: ARCs, Carrie Soto is back, historical fiction, sports, Taylor Jenkins Reid, tennis

narfna's CBR14 Review No:181 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: ARCs, Carrie Soto is back, historical fiction, sports, Taylor Jenkins Reid, tennis ·
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The Best is Back

Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid

October 1, 2022 by Jake 1 Comment

Read this as part of CBR14bingo: question. I wanted to know who Carrie Soto is and what she is coming back from. Later, I wanted another question answered… I was at a bookstore about a month ago when I heard two people gabbing about Taylor Jenkins Reid’s new book, Carrie Soto Is Back. One began with, “I just finished the book…” and instead of the platitudes I expected, she continued “and I hated it. The lead character was terrible there was nothing else to go on after […]

Filed Under: Sports Tagged With: Carrie Soto is back, cbr14bingo, historical fiction, question, sports, Taylor Jenkins Reid, tennis

Jake's CBR14 Review No:174 · Genres: Sports · Tags: Carrie Soto is back, cbr14bingo, historical fiction, question, sports, Taylor Jenkins Reid, tennis ·
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They’re Out!

Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series by Eliot Asinof

September 2, 2022 by Jake Leave a Comment

Read as part of CBR14Bingo: Scandal. The 1919 World Series was scandalized by eight members of the Chicago White Sox agreeing to throw it as part of a gambling conspiracy.  Bill James is a legend among baseball fans. His greatest rep is as the Analytics Guy but my first taste of his work was his text on the Hall of Fame, in which he critiques the process by which people enter. James devoted a chapter to baseball’s most famous banned people: Pete Rose and Shoeless […]

Filed Under: Sports Tagged With: 1919 world Series, Baseball, Black Sox Scandal, cbr14bingo, Charles Commiskey, Chicago, Eight Men Out, Eliot Asinof, gambling, Joe Jackson, scandal, sports, true crime

Jake's CBR14 Review No:152 · Genres: Sports · Tags: 1919 world Series, Baseball, Black Sox Scandal, cbr14bingo, Charles Commiskey, Chicago, Eight Men Out, Eliot Asinof, gambling, Joe Jackson, scandal, sports, true crime ·
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