Welcome to the Week 6 CBR 14 Bingo Check-in! You can see the card and the rules on the kick-off post. This week’s mood: Virgo Season has arrived! I am either a good Virgo or a bad Virgo because I don’t know what Virgo Season means (I have been assured it’s not a form of hunting season), but I do know Cannonballers are posting more reviews this week. Please check your tags and make sure you are using cbr14bingo. Ale – 5 reviews anana – 2 […]
This review is coming to you from a real life dystopia
Lizzie Blake's Best Mistake by Mazey Eddings
I am writing to you from the inside of an actual, non-fiction dystopia. The spoilers start now. I never liked the evil ex trope, and I particularly disliked the evil ex had an abortion variation. I used to come across it frequently in the late 1980s – 1990s. I haven’t seen much of it recently and I’m not at all happy about coming across it in Mazey Edding’s Lizzie Blake’s Best Mistake. The book isn’t explicitly anti-abortion, and I have no idea which side Eddings […]
The urgent truth of our history is all around us if we choose to listen.
We’ve Got to Try by Beto O’Rourke
When I saw the title of Beto O’Rourke’s new book, We’ve Got to Try, I thought, “yes, exactly! What are we trying?” We are trying to save democracy by rescuing voting rights from people who want to suppress it. That’s important, right? I think it’s important. I think it’s important to try and keep trying especially when success isn’t guaranteed. In We’ve Got to Try: How the Fight for Voting Rights Makes Everything Else Possible, O’Rourke is telling the stories of the people who fought […]
You have a deeply strange soul, and it’s pretty incredible
Season of Love by Helena Greer
Do you like the idea of those Christmas movies where someone returns to a small town and finds the Spirit of Christmas, but you wish they were gayer and Jewish? Helena Greer’s Season of Love is for you. Season of Love is also for you if you ever wanted to read about a Jewish family trying to save the family Christmas tree farm while grappling with grief and trauma, but in a way that leaves you feeling like someone just handed you the best cup […]
The Necessity of Violence
Babel, or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators Revolution by R.F. Kuang
I think my mixed feelings are going to come out so I’ll say up front that this is way outside of what I usually read, and while I appreciated that it is a very good book, I often didn’t enjoy reading it. I appreciate it more than I love it. But, I think it’s a worthwhile read. Maybe don’t pick it up right after you put down a book that owns your whole heart. This book is also in conversation with The Secret History and […]
CBR14 Bingo – Week 5 Check-in
Welcome to the Week 5 CBR 14 Bingo Check-in! You can see the card and the rules on the kick-off post. This week’s mood: adapt. I’m day dreaming about how much I’d love someone to to do a big budget adaptation of Tasha Suri’s Burning Kingdoms series. I read about the Netflix v Unofficial Bridgerton Musical lawsuit last night. Wow. You have to make a lot of bad choices to get me to side with a corporation over individual. Please check your tags and […]
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