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…we would never outgrow the cautionary tales.

Whisper Network by Chandler Baker

September 22, 2019 by Leedock Leave a Comment

CBR11 BINGO: Reader’s Choice (Sub for Two Heads are Better Than One Square) I now have a Pavlovian response to any Reese Witherspoon book club pick. I immediately request it from the library. I think that I just need to accept this about myself. Set in the law offices of a successful Dallas sporting good company, the story is part mystery and part social commentary. It’s an up close look at the unfolding of the #MeToo movement in a corporate office where the man poised […]

First they convinced them that the afterlife is even better than Disneyland

Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

September 12, 2019 by Leedock 2 Comments

CBR11 BINGO: Illustrated (BINGO! Reading the TBR corner to Cannonballer Says corner) First, I want to say that the un-athletic yet competitive side of me is totally appreciating this BINGO situation. I enjoyed it last year, but I was less prepared for it. Now, the actual searching for books that fit into the squares that are more difficult for me is actually broadening my reading base in unexpected ways. Bravo, CBR idea makers! I bought a copy of this illustrated novel a few years ago for my son. His middle […]

It’s not the bad people who are brave I fear, it’s the good people who are afraid

American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin by Terrance Hayes

September 11, 2019 by Leedock Leave a Comment

CBR11BINGO: Not My Wheelhouse (BINGO! I Love This! corner to Award Winner corner) I read across a lot of genres, but I haven’t read poetry since I was in college a million years ago. Taking “Not My Wheelhouse” to mean something that I’m curious about but don’t tend to pick up, I landed on a poetry. I also landed on a poet who is not my wheelhouse. BlackRaven reviewed this a while back and said it best, I think: “I am sorry to say, I […]

We live over and over in the happening only to be left with what’s already done.

Call Your Daughter Home by Deb Spera

September 10, 2019 by Leedock Leave a Comment

CBR11 BINGO: History Schmistory (BINGO! Reading the TBR corner to Summer Read corner) Set in the American south in the 1920’s, this novel fits nicely into the “History Schmistory” square. Just a generation into rebuilding after the civil war and shortly after a boll weevil infestation ruins the cotton industry, the inhabitants of a small South Carolina town and it’s outskirts are scrambling to make ends meet. The novel is told through the voices of three very different women: a first generation free black woman, the matriarch […]

…every single beautiful lie he had been told during the course of his childhood…

Werewolves in their Youth by Michael Chabon

September 4, 2019 by Leedock 2 Comments

CBR11 BINGO: The Collection (BINGO! Remix corner to Summer Read corner) I don’t generally read very many short story collections. I like to dig into a story and often short fiction robs me of that a little bit. I’m invested and then it’s over. I think that’s why I tend to gravitate towards short story collections that are somehow linked by character or place. The connection is more satisfying for me. While Chabon’s collection here is not linked in that way, the stories are linked, in many […]

They hammer, they slash. They do not study.

Ragnarok: The End of the Gods by A.S. Byatt

September 4, 2019 by Leedock Leave a Comment

CBR11 BINGO: Remix (Retelling of Norse Myths) A.S. Byatt is an author that I find difficult and I can only tackle one of her novels every so often when I feel I am up to the task. It’s always worth the effort, but it takes a lot of concentration to deal with the richness of her language and the scope of her thoughts. It’s a little like reading philosophy, mythology, psychology, poetry and historical fiction all at once. This little book of only 171 pages […]

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