I had this title on my radar but didn’t sit down to read it until it became this month’s pick for my book club. My book club consists of women ranging in age from 50-something to late 20’s. Four of us are married, 3 of us have children, 1 is pregnant with her first child , one is recently engaged and one is single after a decade long relationship. Each of us will be coming at this from different vantage points in terms of marriage […]
Because this is not a house for the faint of heart
CBR BINGO: Farenheit 451 While I was fishing around trying to find a banned or controversial book for this review, I stumbled across several articles written in 2016 about a 15-year-old girl in a school district near me. When Jeannette Walls’ memoir, “Glass Castle” was removed from the 9th grade reading list at her school, this young woman was having none of it. She challenged her school district at a board meeting and very succinctly pointed out that the material that the parents were objecting to […]
History isn’t something that’s done with, it’s what’s happening right now
CBR10 BINGO: Home, Something, Home. This is about as close to home as I can get. Having lived in Pittsburgh since the mid 1980’s, I probably should have read this native author before but somehow he wasn’t on my radar. He is now. First, I think I need to get into a little history here. In this novel, O’Nan writes about a specific community in Pittsburgh’s east end: East Liberty. During the 1960’s, the Urban Redevelopment Authority hatched a plan to build a pedestrian friendly […]
It was beyond evident you’d never fit readily into any man’s life…
The second of “The Lady Sherlock Series” did not disappoint. (I reviewed the first in the series here). I come to these books with zero knowledge of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock. I am only familiar with the ex Mr. Madonna’s Sherlock and Benedict Cumberbatch. Perhaps I should read “A Study in Scarlet” for the “This Old Thing” BINGO square? Personal edification! On the heels of solving her first murder case, Charlotte Holmes (aka Sherlock) is presented with two puzzles to solve that are even closer to home […]
…so alone, twice captured, carried away on the flood of the world
I’m on a roll with really, really good books lately. This is a good thing, but makes the review part more tricky. My reviews for books that move me tend to be sort of bland. I think that I am trying not to get all “Read This Right Now!” and fan girly about it and that restraint leads to ho-hum reviews. I am sorry about that. So, I guess for this one I will say READ THIS RIGHT NOW ! This is a tiny little […]
We were such a fierce little tribe
My parents got divorced when I was 9. I was an only child but my father’s second wife had kids from a previous marriage. After their marriage, my father moved to the other side of the country. For me, that was a big culture shock and I was endlessly fascinated with the mechanics of sibling interactions. I had never had to “call” a seat for a car ride before. It was like I had landed on the moon for a month every summer. This was in […]
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