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Batsheba Everdene. Pretty decent farmer, dreadful judgement in matters of men

September 3, 2015 by Malin 2 Comments

Farmer Gabriel Oak falls for the pretty, independent-minded and headstrong Miss Bathsheba Everdene pretty much the first time he sees her. He proposes to her, but is rebuffed, as she’s unsure if she ever wants to get married. After losing his entire livelihood after one horrible accident, Gabriel has to go back to being a lowly shepherd and through a series of circumstances ends up working on for Miss Everdene, who’s inherited a farm from her uncle and is determined to run and manage it […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Romance Tagged With: bonnie, CBR7, Far From the Madding Crowd, historical romance, literary classic, Malin, Thomas Hardy, Victorian

Malin's CBR7 Review No:79 · Genres: Fiction, History, Romance · Tags: bonnie, CBR7, Far From the Madding Crowd, historical romance, literary classic, Malin, Thomas Hardy, Victorian ·
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I think it might be quite emotionally exhausting to be a twin

September 3, 2015 by Malin 5 Comments

Did you miss me, guys? I’m going to try to finally tackle the massive backlog of reviews I have (more than a quarter Cannonball at this rate), so expect much more from me in the days to come. Jude and Noah are twins and have always been very close, to the point where they seem able to communicate without words, reading each other’s minds. During the summer when they are thirteen, things are changing. Getting ready to apply to a creative arts high school, Noah […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Young Adult Tagged With: Award Winning, CBR7, contemporary fiction, family, I'll Give You the Sun, Jandy Nelson, LGBTQ, Malin, romantic, Young Adult

Malin's CBR7 Review No:78 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Young Adult · Tags: Award Winning, CBR7, contemporary fiction, family, I'll Give You the Sun, Jandy Nelson, LGBTQ, Malin, romantic, Young Adult ·
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This is my Cannonball, and I’ll make it all about me if I want to.

September 3, 2015 by scootsa1000 19 Comments

Welcome to a long, rambling review that’s all about me. My love affair with the Boston Red Sox began when I was super young. One of my very first memories is of my parents leaving me with a babysitter so that they could go to the World Series game (you know, the one where Carlton Fisk hit that home run) and they brought me home a hat. I loved that damn hat. And I loved that team, even though they completely bungled the series and […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: CBR7, Dick Flavin, Red Sox Rhymes: Verses and Curses, Scootsa1000

scootsa1000's CBR7 Review No:52 · Genres: Uncategorized · Tags: CBR7, Dick Flavin, Red Sox Rhymes: Verses and Curses, Scootsa1000 ·
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Revisiting a favorite from when I was 10.

September 2, 2015 by scootsa1000 1 Comment

When I was a wee Scoots, I had a few authors that I loved. Laura Ingalls Wilder. Judy Blume. John D. Fitzgerald (seriously, The Great Brain books were the best). And when I could get my hands on his books, I loved Daniel Manus Pinkwater. His books were just so crazy and weird, I couldn’t help but love them. Fat Men From Space. The Hoboken Chicken Emergency. The Avocado of Death. These books were really unlike anything I had every read before. And Lizard Music is […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: CBR7, Daniel Manus Pinkwater, Joemyjoe, Lizard Music, Scootsa1000

scootsa1000's CBR7 Review No:51 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: CBR7, Daniel Manus Pinkwater, Joemyjoe, Lizard Music, Scootsa1000 ·
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Not just Coyote

September 1, 2015 by sistercoyote Leave a Comment

So it turns out that I have downloaded/bought about eleventybillion titles for my Kindle and read less than half of them (I don’t feel too guilty about this, because books and also because a lot of them were freebies). Despite that lack of guilt, I’ve decided I need to go through and, well, make my way through all of them. At least in this case it wasn’t a total mistake.

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: CBR7, fantasy, Fiction, short fiction, short story collection, sistercoyote

sistercoyote's CBR7 Review No:18 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: CBR7, fantasy, Fiction, short fiction, short story collection, sistercoyote ·
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I’ve Never Said This About a Romance Before

September 1, 2015 by Mrs. Julien 3 Comments

There is a book, Take, that falls between Try  and Trust  in Ella Frank’s erotic romance trilogy, but I read them out-of-order and didn’t bother to read it because, and I can’t believe I am saying this either, and, please note, doing so for the first time in scores of romance reviews, erotic and otherwise, this book has too much sex. In Try, Logan* is a successful lawyer who very much enjoys his life as a good-looking, financially comfortable man about town. When he visits […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: CBR7, Contemporary Romance, Ella Frank, erotic romance, LGBT Romance

Mrs. Julien's CBR7 Review No:85 · Genres: Romance · Tags: CBR7, Contemporary Romance, Ella Frank, erotic romance, LGBT Romance ·
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