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Every year I say, "This is my year". So: this is my year! (Maybe.)

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A Jennifer Crusie Cruise

April 21, 2016 by Lynn Leave a Comment

I went on a Jennifer Crusie binge a few weekends ago. I wanted it to be a Gilmore Girls binge, but instead, my kid wanted to have a Friends binge, and since I already know that Ross is going to pick Rachel over the bald girl who is married to Ben Stiller in real life, I needed something I could read even though the tv was on. Hence, Jennifer Cruise. Plus, she was a free download from the library. And it was cold out. So […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: Fiction, jennifer crusie, romance, The Mama

Lynn's CBR8 Review No:5 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: Fiction, jennifer crusie, romance, The Mama ·
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Nothing like waiting four months to post my first review…

April 21, 2016 by Lynn 1 Comment

I don’t know what’s wrong with me. I’m such a procrastinator. Anyway, I have at least a dozen reviews, so maybe by September I’ll put up another one. Me: Hey, can I borrow this? JB: Sure. Me: How was it? JB: I dunno. I never read it. This from the man who reads everything. That should have been my first warning. From Nick Hornby comes what all the fancy newspapers called “a page turner” (Washington Times) and “fearless” (San Francisco Chronicle), but what I call […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Fiction, Nick Hornby, The Mama

Lynn's CBR8 Review No:1 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Fiction, Nick Hornby, The Mama ·
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Love and eggs are best when they’re fresh

December 31, 2015 by Lynn 7 Comments

CANNONBALL!!! The City Thieves keeps turning up in my life. JB and I both have two copies of it, I think. Either that, or they are moving around our respective houses on their own. Which is creepy if you think about it. So after literally tripping over it for a few months, I finally picked it up and gave it a whirl. Told in first person as a story to the narrator’s grandson, The City Thieves is the story of Lev Beniov, a young Russian […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Suspense Tagged With: Benioff, The Mama

Lynn's CBR7 Review No:52 · Genres: Fiction, History, Suspense · Tags: Benioff, The Mama ·
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This is the Great American Novel

December 31, 2015 by Lynn 2 Comments

I’m not a comics girl. I’ve never gotten the appeal of graphic novels. I don’t watch Jessica Jones or Supergirl, the only Iron Man I’ve seen is the third one and that was only because my kid made me, and I’ve never seen a Batman movie, although I do own Wonder Woman Underoos. Also, apparently there are two different comic universes and you can’t cross characters, which is something I just recently discovered, much to the chagrin of my friends, but I still don’t know […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Chabon, pulitzer, The Mama

Lynn's CBR7 Review No:51 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Chabon, pulitzer, The Mama ·
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Not really over the moon about this one

December 31, 2015 by Lynn Leave a Comment

I’m totally cheating on this one, and taking the synopsis from Amazon. What can I say? I can’t quite remember the story. June, 1947. Charleston is poised to celebrate the biggest wedding in high-society history, the joining of two of the oldest families in the city. Except the bride is nowhere to be found… Unlike the rest of the debs she grew up with, Vada Hadley doesn’t see marrying Justin McLeod as a blessing—she sees it as a life sentence. So when she finds herself […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: Boykin, The Mama

Lynn's CBR7 Review No:50 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: Boykin, The Mama ·
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Definitely Screwy

December 31, 2015 by Lynn Leave a Comment

Loose Screws is one of those books that I’m pretty sure I downloaded for $1.99 one night when I wanted something fluffy and light. It’s not going to set the world on fire, but it was a serviceable diversion. Sometimes I don’t want to learn something when I read, I just want to feel better about my own life. And however complicated my life is, at least I’m not Ginger Petrocelli. When we first meet Ginger, she’s sitting in her tiny apartment (although it’s not […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: Templeton, The Mama

Lynn's CBR7 Review No:49 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: Templeton, The Mama ·
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