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40-something psychologist living with a husband, toddler, and 2 cats.

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Helpful, But I Sure Wish I Had a Magic Wand

How to Talk so Little Kids Will Listen: A Survival Guide to Life with Children Ages 2-7 by Joanna Faber and Julie King

July 26, 2024 by Tracy Leave a Comment

This book is designed to help parents effectively communicate with “[t]errible two-year-olds, truculent three-year-olds, ferocious four-year-olds, foolhardy five-year-olds, self-centered six-year-olds, and the occasional semi-civilized seven-year-old.” Co-author Joanna Faber is the daughter of a co-author of the well-known How to Talk so Kids Will Listen & Listen so Kids Will Talk. It’s focused on providing skills that parents can use with their young children. The book is divided into two sections. The first is the “Essential Toolbox” of broad categories of tools, such as tools for […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: Joanna Faber, Joanna Faber and Julie King, Julie King

Tracy's CBR16 Review No:44 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: Joanna Faber, Joanna Faber and Julie King, Julie King ·
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Gothic Vibes in a Waterlogged Setting

A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid

July 24, 2024 by Tracy Leave a Comment

To start with, this is one of the most accurate and well-chosen titles I have seen for a book. It’s relevant on multiple levels, from the literal to the psychological to, we eventually find out, the medical. This stood out to me more than book titles typically do. Our psychologically drowning main character is Effy Sayre, the only female architecture student at a university that wouldn’t accept her to the literature college, which was where she wanted to be, because “women dumb” basically. This reflects […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: Ava Reid, cbr16bingo, Gothic Fantasy, ya fantasy

Tracy's CBR16 Review No:43 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: Ava Reid, cbr16bingo, Gothic Fantasy, ya fantasy ·
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A Magical Zoo Adventure

The Phoenix Keeper by S. A. MacLean

July 19, 2024 by Tracy Leave a Comment

This was a charming cozy romantasy with great diversity and mental health representation. It takes place primarily in a zoo of magical creatures, and it was a pleasure to see MacLean’s creativity as she described these animals. Main character Aila is the phoenix keeper at the zoo and has been trying for years to reboot a breeding program for the endangered Silimalo phoenix. When a neighboring zoo loses their phoenix hatchlings and their mother to poachers, Aila’s zoo is given the opportunity to try a […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: cbr16bingo, cozy fantasy, mental health rep, NetGalley, romantasy, S. A. MacLean

Tracy's CBR16 Review No:42 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: cbr16bingo, cozy fantasy, mental health rep, NetGalley, romantasy, S. A. MacLean ·
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Still Piecing Together the Puzzle

Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

July 15, 2024 by Tracy Leave a Comment

After reading this, I don’t know how I’m going to be able to wait for the last book to come out. Although I think Harrow the Ninth was the best out of the three Locked Tomb books, Nona the Ninth was still so good, and I want to know how everything is going to unfold in the end. Nona has a very different tone than the first two books, primarily because it’s following Nona, who could not be more different from both Gideon and Harrowhark. Although in […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Science Fiction Tagged With: cbr16bingo, Locked Tomb series, science fantasy, tamsyn muir

Tracy's CBR16 Review No:41 · Genres: Fantasy, Science Fiction · Tags: cbr16bingo, Locked Tomb series, science fantasy, tamsyn muir ·
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To Read This Book, if Fortunate

To Be Taught, if Fortunate by Becky Chambers

July 10, 2024 by Tracy 1 Comment

Becky Chambers can do so much in such little space. This novella is only about 135 pages (according to my Kindle), and I was interested and invested from the jump. The book is basically an earth-bound log written by astronaut Ariadne, an engineer on an exploration vessel with three other astronauts. They’re on a mission that will last decades in earth years, and they will be exploring a moon and 3 planets in a solar system light years away from earth’s solar system. Their goal […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: Becky Chambers, cbr16bingo, novella

Tracy's CBR16 Review No:40 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: Becky Chambers, cbr16bingo, novella ·
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Love and Sisterhood in Sunshine Falls

Book Lovers by Emily Henry

July 9, 2024 by Tracy 1 Comment

Ooh, my first Emily Henry book, and I really liked it. Our main character Nora Stephens is a literary agent in NYC, and her only focus outside of her job is her younger sister, Libby. Nora has been dumped multiple times by romantic partners who founds new loves in small towns, and the book plays with these tropes when Libby asks Nora to go on essentially a sisterly babymoon to Sunshine Falls, NC. While there, Nora runs into editor Charlie Lastra, whom she had previously […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: Emily Henry

Tracy's CBR16 Review No:39 · Genres: Romance · Tags: Emily Henry ·
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