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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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Lots and lots and lots and lots of tennis. But also maybe some murder?

Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty

November 26, 2022 by kfishgirl Leave a Comment

I asked my sister if she read this book, because we both love Liane Moriarty. Her answer was “Ugh, the tennis one?”. Yes dear readers, this is the tennis one. If there are 10,000 words in this book (it’s long, so I’m sure there are way more), 7,500 of them are related to tennis. It didn’t really bother me, but apparently it bothered my sister! It’s funny, and I know I’ve said this before, but Liane Moriarty is the only author I seem to enjoy […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: family drama, Liane Moriarty, maybe murder, tennis

kfishgirl's CBR14 Review No:47 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction, Mystery · Tags: family drama, Liane Moriarty, maybe murder, tennis ·
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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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Quickest, tallest, most fearless athlete

Althea Gibson: The Story of Tennis’ Fleet-of-Foot Girl by Megan Reid

February 4, 2020 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I knew of Althea Gibson but did not know much (if anything) about her. In Althea Gibson: The Story of Tennis’ Fleet-of-Foot Girl, Megan Reid uses highlights of Gibson’s life to tell her story. Gibson was not only a female pioneer but a black female pioneer as well. What you might know is that she had many firsts in tennis (winning Wimbledon as the first black, male or female, person; winning in doubles with a Jewish woman at Wimbledon) but also in golf as well. […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fiction, History, Sports Tagged With: African-American, Althea Gibson, Laura Freeman, Megan Reid, Sports & Recreation, tennis

BlackRaven's CBR12 Review No:57 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction, History, Sports · Tags: African-American, Althea Gibson, Laura Freeman, Megan Reid, Sports & Recreation, tennis ·
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A couple of sisters take on a game like no other has before

Sisters: Venus & Serena Williams by Jeanette Winter

June 13, 2019 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Sisters: Venus & Serena Williams by Jeanette Winter is in their signature style of text and illustrations. Sisters is a simple, poetic book about the Williams sisters. There is not a lot of background in a traditional text book way, but there is just enough to move the story on. You see how the sisters played on gang-controlled tennis courts, hearing shots in the background, seeing a sea of white faces as they played their first games and up to the present time. The illustrations are […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fiction, Non-Fiction, Sports Tagged With: Jeanette Winter, Serena Williams, tennis, Venus and Serena Williams, Venus Williams

BlackRaven's CBR11 Review No:216 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction, Non-Fiction, Sports · Tags: Jeanette Winter, Serena Williams, tennis, Venus and Serena Williams, Venus Williams ·
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