Monday, 11 July 2016

#CBR8 Book 76: "Captain Marvel, vol 1: Higher, Further, Faster, More" by Kelly Sue DeConnick and David Lopez

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Page count: 136 pages Rating: 3 stars Carol Danvers, who is apparently a hot-shot pilot and one of the Avengers, lives in the crown of ...

#CBR8 Book 75: "Castle Waiting, vol 1" by Linda Medley

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Page count: 457 pages Rating: 4 stars The opening story of Castle Waiting , which explains how the castle came to be abandoned, so to s...

#CBR8 Book 74: "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

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Page count: 528 pages Rating: 5 stars Francie Nolan grows up in the tenements of Williamsburg in Brooklyn, New York in the early years ...
Sunday, 10 July 2016

#CBR8 Book 73: "Bone" by Jeff Smith

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Page count: 1341 pages Rating: 4 stars The three Bone cousins Fone Bone (renamed Hero Bone in my head), Smiley Bone (Comic Relief Bone)...
Saturday, 9 July 2016

#CBR8 Book 72: "Idol" by Kristen Callihan

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Page count: 307 pages Rating: 3 stars Liberty "Libby" Bell (yes, her parents named her Liberty when their surname was Bell, I...

#CBR8 Book 71: "Bitch Planet, vol 1: Extraordinary Machine" by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Valentine DeLandro

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Page count: 156 pages Rating: 4 stars "In the beginning, God created the Heavens and the Earth. Mother Earth, we used to say, befo...
Monday, 4 July 2016

#CBR8 Book 70: "American Born Chinese" by Gene Luen Yang

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Page count: 240 pages Rating: 4 stars This book alternates between three different story lines. The first, by far my favourite, is abou...