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“Oh, every person is a book with chapters. Some are glorious and some are dark and ugly. Every person survives something.”

A Heart in a Body in the World by Caletti, Deb

May 21, 2019 by cosbrarian Leave a Comment

After an unnerving encounter in a local fast-food chain, Annabelle runs. She runs and decides she can’t stop anytime soon. She isn’t prepared for a cross-country run, but she can’t bear to turn back to her hometown and school where she is haunted by flashbacks of The Taker, and what he took. Her mother is appalled, with graduation coming and concern that Annabelle isn’t thinking rationally. But her little brother, her friends, and her grandfather seem to understand that running to Washington DC is something […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Young Adult Tagged With: Award Winner, Deb Caletti, drama, julia whelan, Mental Health, printz, printz honor, recovery, road trip, running, tearjerker, YA, Young Adult

cosbrarian's CBR11 Review No:33 · Genres: Audiobooks, Young Adult · Tags: Award Winner, Deb Caletti, drama, julia whelan, Mental Health, printz, printz honor, recovery, road trip, running, tearjerker, YA, Young Adult ·
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Drama in the courtroom and beyond

Miracle Creek by Angie Kim

April 21, 2019 by Manimama Leave a Comment

Miracle Creek, Virginia, is the home of the Yoo family. The Yoos run a hyperbaric oxygen chamber out of a barn on their property. Their clients are patients who are looking for something- anything- that will help with various ailments and are desperate enough to turn to this “Miracle Submarine” for help. The novel begins with a catastrophe at the submarine and then shifts to a year later, on the first day of the courtroom trial related to said catastrophe. The novel shifts continually between […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: angie kim, drama, Fiction, miracle creek, mystery

Manimama's CBR11 Review No:18 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: angie kim, drama, Fiction, miracle creek, mystery ·
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Two very different novels from a very English author

The Tenth Man by Graham Greene

Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene

April 14, 2019 by KimMiE" Leave a Comment

Graham Greene was a prolific English writer who, in addition to writing over 25 novels, wrote movie treatments and screenplays. Probably his most famous adaptation was for the Orson Welles classic The Third Man, based on Greene’s own novella of the same name. The author conceived of The Tenth Man in the 1940s while working for MGM, but nothing happened with the draft for 40 years. When MGM sold the rights in 1983, the buyer allowed Greene to revise and publish the novel, giving us […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbr11, drama, English authors, Graham Greene, KimMiE", modern classic, political satire, Satire

KimMiE"'s CBR11 Review No:16 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr11, drama, English authors, Graham Greene, KimMiE", modern classic, political satire, Satire ·
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Harry is a bad, bad man

Harry Clarke by David Cale

March 3, 2019 by crystalclear Leave a Comment

Oh, man.  This play.   This is a one-man play, and it is definitely not for everyone.  I’m still trying to decide if I liked it or not. I think I did, but then I also think that might make me a bad person.  Oh well! Harry Clarke doesn’t exist.  Not really. He’s a character that Philip creates for himself at the tender young age of eight.  Philip, a born-and-raised Indiana boy, only feels like himself when he speaks with an English accent.  So he […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fiction Tagged With: Billy Crudup, cbr11, David Cale, drama, Play

crystalclear's CBR11 Review No:17 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction · Tags: Billy Crudup, cbr11, David Cale, drama, Play ·
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Act One: Scene One: You the Reader Reading this Book

October 25, 2018 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

While staring Positively Izzy by Terri Libenson, I was thinking it was like every Raina Telgemeier graphic novel out there. Which is not a bad thing, but since I have read all the original graphic novels of Telgemeier, I was not really digging Izzy. However, by the end there is enough differences that you are not just rereading Telgemeier. The story pans out differently even though the characters are still similar but then again, practically any story you could pick up about middle schoolers today […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: drama, middle school, School & Education, social issues, Terri Libenson

BlackRaven's CBR10 Review No:395 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: drama, middle school, School & Education, social issues, Terri Libenson ·
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The play’s the thing

September 8, 2018 by Dusty Highway 1 Comment

CBR10Bingo: This Old Thing (The Tempest) and Birthday (Hag-Seed) I’m a big fan of Margaret Atwood’s novels. I haven’t read everything she’s written, but I have a shelf full of her books and have loved all but one (sorry, The Heart Goes Last). I always watch for her new releases, and she’s one of the rare exceptions I’ll make to buy hardcover. When Hag-Seed came out a few years ago, I was all excited and ready to buy, until I looked at the cover blurb […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Poetry Tagged With: #CBR10, Canadian, cbr10bingo, drama, Fiction, Hag-Seed, Margaret Atwood, modern retellings, poetry, redemption, revenge, The Tempest, william shakespeare

Dusty Highway's CBR10 Review No:51 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Poetry · Tags: #CBR10, Canadian, cbr10bingo, drama, Fiction, Hag-Seed, Margaret Atwood, modern retellings, poetry, redemption, revenge, The Tempest, william shakespeare ·
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