According to Goodreads I shelved When Breath Becomes Air on December 6, 2016 so it is a pretty clear choice for the Backlog bingo square. “What makes life meaningful enough to go on living?” Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer at the age of thirty-six just as he was completing his decade’s long training to be a neurosurgeon. He had felt for months he may have cancer but put off getting any scans done until his back pain became unbearable. Paul had […]
The Book was Better #CBRBingo
I added Shrabani Basu’s Victoria and Abdul to my TBR last year after seeing the previews for the Judy Dench film of the same name and becoming intrigued by the relationship between the Indian and the Queen of England. Coincidentally I found a copy on Overdrive at the same time the film showed up on HBO making it the perfect The Book Was Better bingo book. Especially since the book really was better than the film. Abdul Karim was a clerk at the county jail […]
SO Shiny #CBRBingo
I have two recent reads that could qualify for our So Shiny bingo category but I read Ronan Farrow’s The War of Peace first so he gets the official tag. Ronan Farrow is the former MSNBC wunderkind best known for his Pulitzer Prize winning article on Harvey Weinstein as well as his recent expose on Les Moonves. Prior to his investigative journalism career Farrow worked for the Obama administration which is where a lot of the information in this book comes from. It is hard to […]
Birthday! #CBRBingo
Marita Lorenz was born on August 18, 1939 in Germany at the onset of WW2 to an American mother and German sea captain (making her a perfect candidate for the birthday bingo square). As a child Marita and her mother were imprisoned in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after her mother, already on watch lists for being American, was accused of helping the incarcerated Jews. After her release from the camp and a sexual assault by a neighbor Marita became a withdrawn, troubled child who stopped going to […]
And So it Begins #CBRBingo
July is incredibly tough month for me at work, in a good way, so I haven’t been reading as much as I do the rest of the year. Most of my reading the last three weeks has been audiobooks on my commute and when I had a few moments to unwind at home I chose television over writing reviews. When I saw the first post about Cannonball Bingo I got excited because now it looks like I saved my backlog of reviews for the contest […]
“But rules were never the point. It was finding out who you were.”
“Rules of Magic: Do as you will, but harm no one. What you give will be returned to you threefold. Fall in love whenever you can. I read Practical Magic earlier this year and was enamored by how much I liked the book despite its vast differences with the movie adaptation I’d grown up with. Hoffman published this prequel last year and it is a great stand alone novel and an adequate companion piece. My biggest complaint about prequels is authors trying to shoehorn the story they […]
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