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I buy books faster than I can read them. (Learn more about this Cannonballer: octothorp's Quick Questions interview.)

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From the depths of hell, I stab at thee! (CBR12Bingo: White Whale)

The Second City: Backstage at the world's greatest comedy theater by Sheldon Patinkin

August 10, 2020 by octothorp Leave a Comment

I have owned this book for twenty years. I remember getting it when it came out. I am a comedy nerd. My parents love The Second City. This book should have been a homerun for me. It absolutely was not. There is a reason this book took me twenty years to read. It felt like it took twenty years once I started.  And, incidentally, I started it about four times and every time put it the hell back down because I couldn’t make myself want […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, History Tagged With: cbr12bingo, Sheldon Patinkin, white whale

octothorp's CBR12 Review No:86 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, History · Tags: cbr12bingo, Sheldon Patinkin, white whale ·
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Nature, red in tooth and claw (CBR12Bingo: Pandemic)

Devolution by Max Brooks

August 3, 2020 by octothorp Leave a Comment

I live in West Michigan, in a county that is known to have the highest incidences of deer collisions in the state. We’re a big city, but with patches of woods sprinkled throughout, and even though I am 100% in The City, I have been in touching distance of deer in large part to my next door neighbor being one of the largest woodland preserves in the city. I mention this because on a walk with the octolet through said park, I saw a deer, […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbr12bingo, Max Brooks, pandemic, World War Z

octothorp's CBR12 Review No:85 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr12bingo, Max Brooks, pandemic, World War Z ·
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Don’t give me that do goody good bullshit (CBR Bingo: Money)

Flash Boys by Michael Lewis

August 3, 2020 by octothorp Leave a Comment

Funny enough, I’ve read Michael Lewis before, and I’ve seen The Big Short, but having never read the source book (and since the book from Lewis I have read is on a topic I’m VERY familiar with), I never realized how good he is at taking the unfamiliar and making it accessible. Because wow, do I know nothing about nothing about Wall Street. Depressingly, as Flash Boys shows, neither do most of the people on Wall Street. I must add this quote from the book because […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: cbr12bingo, Michael Lewis, Money

octothorp's CBR12 Review No:84 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: cbr12bingo, Michael Lewis, Money ·
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“Hey baby, you must have been something before electricity” (CBR12Bingo: Nostalgia)

Caddyshack by Chris Nashawaty

July 23, 2020 by octothorp Leave a Comment

I’m kind of cheating a bit on my Nostalgia entry, but I’m hoping four half-counts add up to it counting. 1) This book is about the making of Caddyshack, and the people interviewed are legitimately nostalgic for the making of the movie. 2) It’s a movie about teenagers, even if I personally wasn’t a teenager in the 70s (Tangent time: also, my teen years were spent watching older movies and listening to early 90s grunge and indie bullshit, making for some very uncomfortable twentysomethings hitting […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: bill murray, caddyshack, cbr12bingo, Chris Nashawaty, harold ramis, National Lampoon, nostalgia

octothorp's CBR12 Review No:83 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: bill murray, caddyshack, cbr12bingo, Chris Nashawaty, harold ramis, National Lampoon, nostalgia ·
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Oooh, you make me live (CBR12Bingo: Friendship)

The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage by Sydney Padua

July 23, 2020 by octothorp Leave a Comment

I’m sure that tagging this as fiction and non fiction seems confusing to anyone who has not read this book. It’s a strange one, but a damn good one. The first dozen or so pages are 100% non-fiction, devoted to the life of Ada Lovelace, the daughter of the “mad, bad, and dangerous to know” Lord Byron and the absolute last person in the world who should have married him, a woman who then raised Ada alone and kept her from following in her father’s […]

Filed Under: Fanfiction, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Ada Lovelace, cbr12bingo, Charles Babbage, friendship, Lord Byron, Sydney Padua

octothorp's CBR12 Review No:82 · Genres: Fanfiction, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Non-Fiction · Tags: Ada Lovelace, cbr12bingo, Charles Babbage, friendship, Lord Byron, Sydney Padua ·
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When will my reflection show / who I am inside (CBR 12 Bingo: Cannonballer Says)

Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino

July 20, 2020 by octothorp Leave a Comment

Thanks Lowercasesee for the recommendation from last year’s CBR, even if this was absolutely something I heard about from multiple sources as being up my alley, I’m giving you the credit for having the pull quote I liked best from the book as well. “…planning a wedding is the only period in a woman’s life where she is universally and unconditionally encouraged to conduct everything on her terms.” Huyup.  I was pretty damn easygoing as a bride (seriously, one of my bridesmaids was convinced we […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: Cannonballer Says!, cbr12bingo, Jia Tolentino, Lowercasesee

octothorp's CBR12 Review No:81 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: Cannonballer Says!, cbr12bingo, Jia Tolentino, Lowercasesee ·
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