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Time is a River

The River of No Return by Bee Ridgway

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This was a weird one for me.  It has an interesting premise, and it sets up the beginning so well, but then I am not entirely sure where the author was going with it.  On the one hand, she sets up quite a few things that are never resolved so I assume she may have wanted to use this novel as starting off point for a series but it is almost to boring to be a series.  You can’t hint at a lot of interesting and intriguing things, and not make the novel interesting on its own. Sure, there are […]

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8/23/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:30 |

Twice (or More) in a Lifetime

Recursion by Blake Crouch

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CBR11Bingo: Science! You ever read a book that feels just a little too much like a treatment for a film script? In Blake Crouch’s Recursion, the focus is almost entirely on its high-concept, easy to pitch plot. The characters are briefly sketched to the point where it’s easy to imagine almost any two actors playing the main roles in an adaptation. The writing is competent but unchallenging, making for a quick read without much in the way of metaphor. Maybe that’s too critical. After all, Recursion is an entertaining and fairly original story. It finds a way into a time […]

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7/29/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:21 |

A meandering but mostly fun ride

The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. by Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland

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This massive book covers time travel, witchcraft, academia, military machinations, and more science and physics than this English major could comfortably follow. It feels like several different books mashed together (maybe because of the dual authors?), but the merging of all the pieces was pretty successful. I haven’t read much Stephenson, so I’m not sure how much was him and how much was Galland, but I enjoyed most of it. Melisande Stokes is trapped in 1851 London, and is writing down everything that happened to leave in a safety deposit box in case she can’t get home to present-day Boston […]

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7/6/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:14 |

Very skeptical going in to this, but I quite enjoyed myself. Thanks, Read Harder!

Orange: The Complete Collection, Vol. 1 by Ichigo Takano

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This wasn’t my first manga, but it was the first I enjoyed. I tried Sailor Moon years ago, and was super not into it. In hindsight, I may have been unfair to it, and being unfamiliar with the conventions of manga and anime probably contributed, but still. Not a fan. But I was into this right away! I probably wouldn’t have ever picked it up, despite several friends having read and enjoyed it, except for the Read Harder Challenge this year (thanks Read Harder, doing your job!) requiring a book of manga. It was between this one and Fruits Basket, […]

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6/24/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:61 |

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

The Jane Austen Project by Kathleen A Flynn

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What if, in a future not long from now, time travel was a real, government sponsored thing? With a competitive selection process for its various missions – some successful, some not – would you be willing to risk your actual life, as well as the life as you know it, in order to participate? Strangely, in this future, in which almost all animals are extinct (something called the mysterious “die off”) and all food is created via 3D printing technology, officials are using this amazing time travel technology to go back to 1815 and find out what’s up with Jane […]

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6/5/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:25 |

DOOOGS IN SPACE! (OK actually in 1925 & 1850 America)

Time Dogs: Balto and the Race Against Time by Helen Moss

Time Dogs: Seaman and the Great Northern Adventure by Helen Moss

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If the Magic Tree House series by Mary Pope Osborne, the Ranger in Time series by Kate Messner and Paw Patrol got together and created a younger version of themselves with dogs and a time traveling van, you would get The Time Dogs series. The first two Time Dogs by Helen Moss are a sweet mix of fact and fiction. Clever stories bring to life the history of famous dogs and their people. The first book, Balto and the Race Against Time has our doggie heroes, a group of old-timer dogs (Baxter, Trevor, Newton, Maia, and Titch a local homeless […]

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5/28/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:183 |

Not great, but not awful

Saving Juliet by Suzanne Selfors

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Mimi is a reluctant actress, forced into the profession by her mother to continue in her family legacy.  Mimi would rather go to med school, but her controlling mother will hear none of it. It doesn’t matter that Mimi has stage fright.  Her current torture is playing Juliet in her family’s theater. Troy is a self-centered teenage pop star whose agent has decided that taking on the role of Romeo will be good for ratings, despite the fact that he’s not very good at acting. Through some magical shenanigans, Mimi and Troy end up thrown into the world of Shakespeare’s […]

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5/25/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:36 |

I don’t really know why I disliked this book about time-traveling bodyswaps in Tudor England.

Spark by Catherine Friend

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This book made me very cranky. In fact, I ended up disliking it so much I requested a refund from Amazon, which I guess they don’t normally do if you don’t like a book on Kindle. (They gave it to me, But just this once, because I’m such a loyal customer! Honestly, though, it was a $10 e-book and I did not tolerate it enough to permanently part with $10.) Honestly, I’m not sure how informative this review will end up being if you’re curios about the book, because I’m not sure entirely why I disliked it so much. It […]

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5/10/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:48 |


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