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Caught out in the rain in the most dangerous Magic Tree House mission yet!

Hurricane Heroes in Texas #30 by Mary Pope Osborne

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By my count, this is number 16 in my bingo journey and The Last in a Series! The Magic Treehouse series is an interesting one. Ever since I have heard about it, I wanted to read one. However, I have only read some of the non-fiction companions to the fiction stories and some of her non-Treehouse books. When the read the last in a series came up on the bingo board, I figured why not? Well, the problem is, there are series within the series! There is the main story, the Merlin series and a couple others, plus the non-fiction […]

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9/13/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:354 |

Texas noir. #CBRBingo

Bluebird, Bluebird (Highway 59, #1) by Attica Locke

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Project: Catch Up On Review Backlog commences. No promises on the quality of my next ten or so reviews. I just want to get them done. (This will probably unfortunately result in subpar reviews for books that deserve much better.) Let’s start with a book I finished over a month ago, Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke. First things first, this book was incredibly well done. It’s a crime book set in Texas, featuring a black Texas Ranger as its protagonist. I knew that going in. I also knew that the author had previously said that her books were “too black […]

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8/2/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:88 |

She had me at Dolly Parton.

Dumplin' by Julie Murphy

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Dumplin’, whose real name is Willowdean, is a smart, kind, capable, funny, and fat (her term) 16-year-old in small-town Texas. Being sixteen is sucky enough, am I right?!, but the “fat” part causes even more trouble than one would expect for Dumplin’ since her mom is the local pageant queen-turned-pageant director, still living on her own pageant days, staying thin to fit in a 30-year-old dress. She was herself once Miss Teen Blue Bonnet and you better believe that’s a big effin’ deal in Clover City. Dumplin’ is pretty bad-ass — she takes her mom in stride for the most […]

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2/12/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:4 |

The Unknown Story of America’s First Serial Killer

The Midnight Assassin by Skip Hollandsworth

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Before Jack the Ripper, there was The Midnight Assassin. He was a serial killer in Austin, Texas, and maybe the first serial killer. He sometimes simply scared women by standing in front of a window, sometimes beat women and went through their clothes, and sometimes killed them. His weapons of choice were iron rods inserted in the ears, an axe swung at the face, and a brick. In the mid-1880s he killed at least five women in Austin, totally changing the mood and even the landscape of Texas’ little capitol city. People won and lost their livelihoods and their freedom […]

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12/11/2017 's CBR9 Review No:65 |

The stars at night are big and bright deep in the heart of Texas!

Lone Star: A History Of Texas And The Texans by T.R. Fehrenbach

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When famed Texas historian T.R. Fehrenback died a few years ago, Texas Monthly eulogized the man and offered some early insight on his legacy and the book that made him famous – Lone Star: What makes Fehrenbach a great historian? The answer is that he is a great writer. He has a story to tell. Lone Star is indeed an epic. It is a work that covers not just chapters but centuries. On its pages we encounter generations of men who came to Texas to subdue a harsh land. Some succeeded; others could not take the measure of the land, and […]

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12/3/2016 's CBR8 Review No:34 |

Living in a Devil Town

The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtry

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Flowery opining and editorial insight aside, Larry McMurtry’s The Last Picture Show is a great book full of truth. It’s funny, sad, and sometimes mean. Most of all, to me, it’s true. LPS finds the heart of what small town life is like, especially small town life in Texas.  McMurtry probably sounds familiar, even to a casual reader. He wrote Lonesome Dove. That book, his most famous, was supposed to be his subversion of the western. Somehow, it became one of the most iconic westerns. I don’t think McMurtry ever quite knew what to make of that. LPS is much smaller in scope than Lonesome Dove, […]

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8/15/2016 's CBR8 Review No:23 |

Never Rate a Book By Your Professor

Friendswood by Rene Steinke

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Being objective is much harder when you know the author and she happens to be your professor. I decided to read Rene Steinke’s book as part of a ‘teaching early composition’ class I’m taking over the summer since “Friendswood” has been adopted as our official ‘college book’ for the year. It was good. There were even parts that made me feel things, and that’s really the whole goal of any book; to stir the emotions enough to make the reader feel something. But this wasn’t a perfect book; this wasn’t what we here at CBR would consider a 5-star, and […]

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6/2/2016 's CBR8 Review No:10 |

Ahhh Buck This Book

Buck Fever by Ben Rehder

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Are you a fan of Carl Hiaasen? So am I.  I am a total sucker for ridiculous characters with a ridiculous backdrop of Florida where wacky and zany things happen.  But much like a Sour Patch Kid, I can’t handle too much Hiaasen at once. No, I have to read a book here or there, chuckle at it, forget it, and grab another one in the future.  I mention this because Buck Fever has a couple things going for it (in theory).  One, our author was an Edgar Award nominee (I like mysteries and I like many nominees in this […]

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2/29/2016 's CBR8 Review No:18 |


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