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Government drone by day and book lover and geek girl by night! I review on Goodreads, StoryGraph, and NetGalley.

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Re-read of Little Women

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

July 24, 2019 by Classic Leave a Comment

“Little Women” takes place during the American Civil War. The four March sisters (Meg, Jo, Amy, and Beth) are home with their mother (Marmee) and their maid Hannah while their father (known as Father) is away fighting. What I found interesting about the March family was how progressive the attitudes of the parents were and how that helped shaped their four daughters. So here’s the thing. Amy is my favorite. I can’t help it. I know a lot of book readers love Jo the best, […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Young Adult Tagged With: cbr11bingo, classics, Little Women, louisa may alcott

Classic's CBR11 Review No:175 · Genres: Children's Books, Young Adult · Tags: cbr11bingo, classics, Little Women, louisa may alcott ·
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Our Beloveds

Beloved by Toni Morrison

July 24, 2019 by Classic Leave a Comment

Not too much to say about this one except every word just drips with rawness. The question is what would you do? Would you do as Sethe did? Would you have done something differently? I can’t imagine being owned by someone. I can’t imagine my body not being mine to command. I can’t imagine my children being someone else’s property. “Beloved” follows Sethe, a former slave that managed to escape to Ohio more than a decade ago. However, Sethe is haunted by the choices she […]

Filed Under: Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: African American literature, Beloved, cbr11bingo, Toni Morrison

Classic's CBR11 Review No:174 · Genres: Mystery, Suspense · Tags: African American literature, Beloved, cbr11bingo, Toni Morrison ·
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Almost Perfect…

Forbidden by Beverly Jenkins

July 24, 2019 by Classic Leave a Comment

This was so good! I loved it. The characters of Rhine and Eddy made my heart happy. Especially when you find out Rhine’s past. I loved how Jenkins took parts of the American history (post Civil War, mostly African American towns, etc.) and turned all of that into this book. I am so going to read more books by this author in the future. The only reason why I didn’t give this five stars is that it starts off slow. To the point that I […]

Filed Under: Romance, Western Tagged With: Beverly Jenkins, Forbidden, historical romance, Old West #1

Classic's CBR11 Review No:173 · Genres: Romance, Western · Tags: Beverly Jenkins, Forbidden, historical romance, Old West #1 ·
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Book Drags…

Playing for the Ashes by Elizabeth George

July 24, 2019 by Classic Leave a Comment

So this one drags due to the narrative style. I didn’t know who the heck Olivia Whitelaw was at first and even when I did find out, I didn’t get what was going on until the very end. I have to say that the big left me feeling perplexed about a few things and I just didn’t like how it ended. I can guess at what Lynley decides to do, but I wanted it spelled out. Yes, after reading more than 700 pages (yeah this book is […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: Elizabeth George, Inspector Lynley #7, mystery, Playing for the Ashes

Classic's CBR11 Review No:172 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: Elizabeth George, Inspector Lynley #7, mystery, Playing for the Ashes ·
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Ted Mobsy Is Not a Hero

Dumped, Actually by Nick Spalding

July 24, 2019 by Classic Leave a Comment

I need to get ahead of the books that I have finished the past week. Due to me being at training right now I just don’t have a lot of energy to post reviews. Going to post as many as i can before I finally fall on my face. So this book, eh, the main character got on my nerves. That’s before the reveal about what a loon he was when you find out the backstory on his and his girlfriend’s relationship. I used to […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Romance Tagged With: Dumped Actually, humor, Nick Spalding

Classic's CBR11 Review No:171 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Romance · Tags: Dumped Actually, humor, Nick Spalding ·
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What Terrible Men These Are…

Missing Joseph by Elizabeth George

July 24, 2019 by Classic Leave a Comment

Wow. So “Missing Joseph” packs a punch. George really looks at a variety of relationships and in the end you kind of want to go why do women even deal with men? Except in the case of St. James and his wife Deborah where she continues to be the worst. There’s also a look at the mother and child relationship and how those differ with regards to fathers. There is the usual mess with Deborah and honestly that’s the main reason why I dropped this […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: Elizabeth George, Inspector Lynley #6, Missing Joseph, mystery

Classic's CBR11 Review No:170 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: Elizabeth George, Inspector Lynley #6, Missing Joseph, mystery ·
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