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About Kristicuse

CBR17 Participant

I am a huge reader and am excited for my first year with CBR!

Kristicuse's Reviews:

Heartbreaker Dressed Up in Bright, Fun Colors

The Story of Tracy Beaker by Jacqueline Wilson

January 10, 2025 by Kristicuse 1 Comment

Well, that was certainly not what I was expecting… In an effort to read more classic books, I was recently perusing the BBC’s The Big Read list of 200 books.  Coming second, only to Terry Pratchett, was Jacqueline Wilson with 14 books on the list.  This surprised me because, as an American, I was not familiar with her or her works.  In Britain, she is a much beloved children’s literature author, with the “Tracy Beaker” stories being amongst her most prominent. The cover of the […]

Filed Under: Children's Books Tagged With: Jacqueline Wilson, middlegrade fiction adultthemes

Kristicuse's CBR17 Review No:3 · Genres: Children's Books · Tags: Jacqueline Wilson, middlegrade fiction adultthemes ·
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A Curious Story Indeed

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

January 7, 2025 by Kristicuse 2 Comments

“I like dogs. You always know what a dog is thinking. It has four moods. Happy, sad, cross and concentrating. Also, dogs are faithful and they do not tell lies because they cannot talk.” I’m not sure what I expected from this book, but to say I was pleasantly surprised is putting it mildly.  This book languished on my TBR for over a decade.  I don’t know why I avoided it, but I just never got around to picking it up.  I ended up listening […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: family, Fiction, Mark Haddon, mystery

Kristicuse's CBR17 Review No:2 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction, Mystery · Tags: family, Fiction, Mark Haddon, mystery ·
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Cover of Small Things Like These green with snow covered building roofs

Starting 2025 Off with a Quick but Sad Read

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

January 3, 2025 by Kristicuse 7 Comments

After following CBR for nearly a decade, I finally decided to join, so here is my first review! I chose this book to fulfill the “By an Irish Author” prompt in the Goodreads Around the Year in 52 Books Reading Challenge and the “Author’s Last Name is Also a First Name” prompt in the 52 Book Club Challenge. “As they carried along and met more people Furlong did and did not know, he found himself asking was there any point in being alive without helping […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History Tagged With: Claire Keegan, irish history, novella

Kristicuse's CBR17 Review No:1 · Genres: Fiction, History · Tags: Claire Keegan, irish history, novella ·
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