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A New Classic? Maybe. A New Fun Read? Yes!

Timeless: Diego and the Rangers of the Vastlantic by Armand Baltazar

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White Whale! Timeless: Diego and the Rangers of the Vastlantic is the result if The Invention of Hugo Cabret meet Steampunk with “something else” that I cannot put my finger on. Armand Baltazar has mixed fantasy, realism and adventure that surrounds our hero Diego and his friends. When different times (past present and a little of the future) have clashed together causing a brand-new world, the different factions fight over to create their own order in this not always safe world. However, when five kids from different parts of this new world their adventures include fighting pirates, dinosaurs, World War Two […]

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8/16/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:311 |

Here, There Be a Lot of Info Dump

Here, There Be Dragons by James Owen

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One of my students suggested this book to me last year, and I finally got around to getting it from the library.  If I was twelve years old again, I would have absolutely loved this book and been hooked for the duration of the series. It was fanciful, had a cute ending, and hit all the correct markers for decent kids’ fantasy, but the older I get, the harder a time I have sinking into YA fantasies, and this book was no exception. Our three main men, John, Jack, and Charles are all Oxford men who end up in the […]

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8/13/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:16 |

Where exactly have you spent these past three years, my Lord? Among some Amazon tribe?

The River of No Return by Bee Ridway

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After disappearing from a battlefield in 1812 Spain, Lord Nicholas finds himself in a London hospital 200 years in the future.  Under the instruction of an organization called The Guild, he is whisked away to a retreat in the Chilean mountains to learn how to fit into his new time. Along with his fellow students, Nick discovers that he is a time traveler. His near death experience in battle triggered his abilities. After boning up on current affairs, idioms and wardrobe choices, Nick settles in New York City.  Flush with money provided by the Guild, he basically spends his time […]

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8/6/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:40 |

A gripping time-travel slave narrative

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

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Kindred was our June Cannonball Read book club selection. I decided to read both the original novel by Octavia E. Butler and graphic novel adaptation by John Jennings and Damian Duffy. Both works focus on Dana, a young writer living in 1970s northern Los Angeles (much like Butler herself). She is recently married and moving into her new home with her older white husband, Kevin. They seem quite in love and happy. Dana is unpacking some books when suddenly and inexplicably she travels through time to 1815 Maryland. This will unfortunately be one of many trips back in time where […]

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7/26/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:13 |

There is literally no place in American history that’ll be awesome for me.

Kindred by Octavia Butler

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REVIEW OF BOTH KINDRED (Octavia E. Butler) & DREAD NATION (Justina Ireland) It was just by chance that I happened to read Dread Nation and Kindred at the same time, but it was hard not to draw parallels between the two books.  Issues of gender, power, and the complexities of race as well as strong female narrators bind the two across the vast distance of their publication dates. Both books have interesting layers, and comparing and contrasting them would make a great literary analysis essay, but as Trevor Noah would say, “Ain’t nobody got time for that.” Instead, here are some […]

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7/13/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:23 |

Second time reading, second time not adequately expressing feelings in review.

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

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I would like to lodge a protest at the start of this review against the practice of writing reviews for books that you have too much to say about. (Often too much to say leads to having nothing to say.) I had a really hard time writing a review for this excellent book the first time I read it. I did an all right job three years ago conveying some of my feelings, but mostly I have so many thoughts and feelings about this book that I literally cannot write them all or you would all be reading a small […]

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7/3/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:78 |

Back to the future

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

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In what must be the most frightening birthday surprise ever, on Dana’s 26th birthday, as she is moving into a new house with her husband Kevin, she suddenly feels dizzy and gets transported away from her safe and familiar surroundings in 1976. She comes to in the woods by a river, where a boy is in the process of drowning. Dana reacts instinctively and wades into the water, rescuing the boy. Faced with the boy’s hysterical mother, and more terrifyingly, the boy’s angry father, who points a rifle at her, Dana is suddenly back with her husband. She might have […]

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6/23/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:48 |

Hooray for Hollywood… eventually

Mendoza in Hollywood by Kage Baker

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So far, hands down this is the best book so far in “The Company” series. It’s the first one I read, *gasp* OUT OF ORDER! But what a killer title, how could I resist? I was young and naive. 2018 me would never do such a thing! The book starts off with Mendoza in a private hearing in 1863, and right away, she confesses to the two auditors (Company men) that she’s killed seven mortal men. We see that she’s eating Theobromos, the chocolate that intoxicates the operatives. She proceeds to spill the beans. The story begins in 1862 California, far […]

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6/12/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:3 |


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