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Bright Young Women Puts the Focus Where It Belongs

Bright Young Women by Jessica Knolls

August 29, 2025 by RouletteGirl 3 Comments

One of the most frustrating aspects of our culture’s obsession with true crime is the tendency of writers, directors, podcasters, etc. to put all their focus on the criminal, lionizing him (it’s always a Him) as if his crimes showcase his intelligence instead of his depravity. That’s ever-so-slowly starting to change. Your Own Backyard does an incredible job focusing on Kristin Smart and the impact her disappearance made on her friends and family, and when it discusses Paul Flores it contextualizes him as the misogynist […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fiction Tagged With: Jessica Knolls

RouletteGirl's CBR17 Review No:15 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction · Tags: Jessica Knolls ·
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The Past Is a Different Country

The World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient Japan by Ivan Morris

American Monsters by Adam Jortner

August 28, 2025 by Pooja 2 Comments

CBR17 Bingo: Favorite – Both books are history books about fairly specialized, off beat topics – my favorite kind. The World of the Shining Prince by Ivan Morris – 5 stars For about a century about a millennium ago, a strange era flourished in Japan where a series of boy emperors were ruled by their in-laws (who were also their grandparents, cousins, and aunts), beauty was virtue, and the failure to catch the vaguest conversational allusion to a poem spelled social ruin. This book is […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #history, Adam Jortner, audiobook, cbr17bingo, culture, horror, Ivan Morris, Japan, Non-Fiction, Pop Culture, United States

Pooja's CBR17 Review No:47 · Genres: Audiobooks, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: #history, Adam Jortner, audiobook, cbr17bingo, culture, horror, Ivan Morris, Japan, Non-Fiction, Pop Culture, United States ·
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Harriet Tubman live in concert cover

This book ruined my productivity

Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert by Bob the Drag Queen

August 26, 2025 by vega-table 2 Comments

Bingo Row 5 – arts What if Harriet Tubman somehow came back from the past to the modern world? What would she do? Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert by Bob the Drag Queen says that Harriet Tubman would be the MC in a hip-hop band with some people she led to freedom and a stoned Benjamin Lay. The book is told in the first person by Darnell, Harriet Tubman’s producer. He works with Harriet to put her stories to music. They gossip about Frederick Douglass […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fiction Tagged With: Bob the Drag Queen, cbr17bingo

vega-table's CBR17 Review No:28 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction · Tags: Bob the Drag Queen, cbr17bingo ·
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Delightful, entertaining, and informative

In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson

August 24, 2025 by Sophia 3 Comments

CBR17Bingo: Migrant (because Australia is a country of migrants–beginning with the Aboriginals and their mysterious journey by ship thousands of years ago, to the first European migrants, to the current migrants [almost half of the population of Sydney was born overseas]). My husband and I began a tradition at our first anniversary of finding a book that relates to something we did during the year, and then we both read it. We haven’t been married very long, but we generally choose books about somewhere we […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir, Featured, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Bill Bryson, cbr17bingo

Sophia's CBR17 Review No:21 · Genres: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir, Featured, Non-Fiction · Tags: Bill Bryson, cbr17bingo ·
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Cover of Travis Baldree's Brigands & Breadknives

“After 10 centuries of doing this, do you want to know what’s really exciting?” Fern nodded. “Dry socks.”

Brigands & Breadknives by Travis Baldree

August 20, 2025 by Emmalita Leave a Comment

  I really enjoyed this. It’s nice that Travis Baldree is also a voice actor, because he really brings his words to life on the audiobook. I enjoyed the focus on Fern and her accidental road trip. Zil the goblin is a delightfully chaotic entry to the Legends & Lattes universe. Asterix the Oathmaiden keeps everyone grounded while bringing the sword wielding adventure. If you recall, in the Legends & Lattes prequel, Bookshops & Bonedust, Viv made friends with Fern, a bookseller in Murk, where […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fantasy Tagged With: brigands and breadknives, Legends and Lattes, Travis Baldree

Emmalita's CBR17 Review No:60 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fantasy · Tags: brigands and breadknives, Legends and Lattes, Travis Baldree ·
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A little luxurious wish fulfillment

The Paradise Problem by Christina Lauren

August 18, 2025 by Sophia Leave a Comment

CBR17Bingo: Green (for the green cover) By now I’ve read a number of books by Christina Lauren*, and they’ve been a little hit or miss for me. But it hasn’t stopped me from continuing to read their novels–always hoping for the best. The Paradise Problem (2024) wasn’t my absolute favorite book from them, but it’s up there and I had a good time. When Anna Green was pre-med in college, she was desperate for housing. A friend of hers hooked her up with Liam “West” […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fiction, Romance Tagged With: cbr17bingo, Christina Lauren

Sophia's CBR17 Review No:20 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction, Romance · Tags: cbr17bingo, Christina Lauren ·
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