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Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

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“Why do you always quote poetry at me when all I want is a straight answer?”

Not a Drop to Drink by Mindy McGinnis

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The first time Lynn killed a man, she was 9 years old. Her mother taught her the ways of shooting and with good reason: she and Lynn had something highly coveted.  A small pond of water, in a world that was desperate for it.  Now into her teenage years, Lynn is used to the lonely life she and her mother tend to, a life that cycles only around surviving.  Collecting and purifying water is their number one priority. Hunting and growing another. Keeping the men who want to take over their property away by any means possible is the third […]

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4/10/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:25 |

It took all the strength I had not to fall apart!

I Am Still Alive by Kate Alice Marshall

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I’m really sorry for naming this review after the most cliche song I could have quoted — OR AM I? Sixteen-year-old Jess has been through it this year.  She survived a terrible car crash that killed her mother on impact. She’s left scarred and her leg is irrevocably damaged, despite the diligence she has devoted to her physical therapy. And now, the court has ordered her custody to the father she has barely known, transported there by an old family friend named Gil. Gil does not bring her to the government address on hand, however. She is flown to the […]

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3/30/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:23 |

Accessible, exciting historical fiction for the tween set

Lifeboat 12 by Susan Hood

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Almost accidentally, author Susan Hood stumbled upon a historical event that has gone mostly overlooked and it is the basis of her exciting middle grade novel Lifeboat 12.  The book is told in verse format by narrator and actual survivor Ken Sparks, who is thirteen years of age right before London is destroyed in the Blitz. His life in London is troubled by things large in scope (like running to bomb shelters nightly when the alarms go off and living off rations and hand-me-downs) and intimate (feeling slighted by his stepmother who dotes on his half-sister and only seems disappointed […]

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1/24/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:6 |

Here There Be Giant Catfish Monsters

A World Below by Wesley King

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When Mr. Baker takes his sixth grade class to the Carslbad Caverns for their end of year field-trip, he assures them they’ll find awe and adventure. Turns out they find a little too much of both. Wandering the cavern’s depths, they get caught in an earthquake that sends them deeper underground and the students find themselves split up, teacherless, and lost in the middle of the earth. As they try to find their way back, they will encounter unrecognizable wildlife, conquer their own fears, and most surprisingly, meet a community of people who fled the above ground world long ago. […]

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1/10/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:3 |

Zoey is strong, tough, and super stubborn

The Last Girl (The Dominion Trilogy Book 1) AND The Final Trade (The Dominion Trilogy Book 2) by Joe Hart

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This is Book one of “The Dominion Trilogy”.  All three books in the trilogy were available on Kindle Unlimited, so I downloaded all three and started at one! We open the story by meeting Zoey.  She has no last name, and we find out quickly that she’s nearly 21.  She lives in some sort of facility that is very strict.  Throughout the story, we learn that she doesn’t know her parents, she doesn’t have any siblings, and she’s with other girls in the same boat.  There was an event called The Dearth, where no more female babies were being born. […]

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8/18/2017 's CBR9 Review No:40 |

You are entering the Red Zone. Proceed at own risk. When in doubt, run.

City of Mirrors: A Novel (Book Three of The Passage Trilogy) by Justin Cronin

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I consider myself very lucky that I discovered Justin Cronin’s “The Passage” series only last summer, so the wait for City of Mirrors was much less painful and dramatic than it would have been if I’d been reading in real time: The Passage was published in 2010 and The Twelve in 2012. City of Mirrors came out four weeks ago. That’s not on a George R. R. Martin level, but still could have been a brutal wait for me. Whew! I love this series. I loved this final book. I wish there were more. But also, City of Mirrors really […]

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7/23/2016 's CBR8 Review No:30 |

You will not be spared the horrors, even from the comfort of solid ground.

In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick

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I’ve been meaning to read this book for a long time, and the impending release of Ron Howard’s adaptation spurred me to finally pick it up. It’s one of the better reading choices I’ve made this year. For the uninitiated, the Essex was a whaling ship that was sunk in 1820 roughly halfway between Hawaii and the coast of Peru; almost as far from land as you can be and still consider yourself terrestrial. The ship was attacked by a sperm whale, which ultimately inspired Herman Melville to write what many have described as the greatest American novel ever written: […]

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10/22/2015 's CBR7 Review No:22 |

Still time to read it before the movie comes out

The Martian: A Novel by Andy Weir

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I can’t believe it has taken me a month to get to writing this review.  I was telling everyone about it when I finished it, but just didn’t get it written down.  I had managed not to hear much about this book beforehand.  I can’t even remember where it was recommended so that I put it on my library hold list…and then waited months for it to come up since it was so popular. I will start with what a lot of other people say because it is so obvious – this feels a lot like the movie Apollo 13, […]

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4/13/2015 's CBR7 Review No:4 |


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