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She/her. Longtime lurker, goodreads addict :D (Learn more about this Cannonballer: wicherwill's Quick Questions interview.)

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Ceux qui s’aiment fissisent tourjour par se retrouver by Sonia Dagotor

June 29, 2023 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

Cannonball Passport: Book from France! This was a very quirky book, which I started in advance of a trip to France that was making me (as always) be rather self-flagellating for not being more diligent about building on the hard won fluency that I’d gained in school and then maintaining it (through more than haphazard one offs on vacation twice a decade, e.g. filing police reports in Marrakesh or asking if something had peanuts in Paris). It was, admittedly, picked off of a list of […]

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Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: #CBR15 passport, French, Sonia Dagotor

wicherwill's CBR15 Review No:14 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #CBR15 passport, French, Sonia Dagotor ·
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Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo

June 29, 2023 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

Cannon Ball Passport: Friend recommended! Tl;dr I think I’ll read the next in this series but I wasn’t as keen on this outing as I was with the first book, Ninth House. I’m glad that when I originally tried reading this, and lost the loan before starting through a mistake of airplane mode, that I didn’t go out and spend money buying a copy–although Bardugo’s defense of the genre does make me want to capitalism in her direction. We pick up with Galaxy “Alex” Stern, now […]

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Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: #CBR15 passport, alex stern, Leigh Bardugo

wicherwill's CBR15 Review No:13 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: #CBR15 passport, alex stern, Leigh Bardugo ·
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trigger warning for hysterics

The World Record Book of Racist Stories by Amber Ruffin & Lacey Lamar

April 19, 2023 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

What to do when you have a best selling book? Write a sequel, of course, and this time invite the whole family to join in! Amber and Lacey continue their two woman charm offensive on America, in a delightful book that will almost certainly be read by well-intentioned progressives to reassure themselves that they aren’t like racist racist. Just the normal amount of racism that’s fed to all of us through our participation in white supremacy via living in America as a product of the capitalist hamster […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Featured Tagged With: Amber Ruffin, Amber Ruffin, Lacey Lamar, Lacey Lamar

wicherwill's CBR15 Review No:9 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Featured · Tags: Amber Ruffin, Amber Ruffin, Lacey Lamar, Lacey Lamar ·
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what a saga (ha) and unexpectedly delightful

The Greenlanders by Jane Smiley

April 4, 2023 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

CW: assault A starkly different recommendation–from The Pale King to this, which couldn’t be more different if you’d tried. There’s more plot in a single paragraph of the latter than in all of the former’s million odd pages…and this book isn’t short by any means. This is a fictionalized reconstruction of the Norwegian settlers of Greenland of the fourteenth century, written in the style of one of those old sagas originally passed down through oral tradition. It’s actually quite hard to sell this one, and I think […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: jane smiley

wicherwill's CBR15 Review No:12 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: jane smiley ·
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two shorter reviews as I try to get ahead of the queue

The Prophets by Robert Jones, Jr

Heart Berries: A Memoir by Terese Marie Mailhot

April 4, 2023 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

The Prophets A recommendation by the delightful Evin, who did indeed tell me to read this many eons before I actually did! If, like me, you found it hard to pick this book up, then perhaps this review is for you. This book is: – not as trauma porn-y as Whitehead at his peak (The Underground Railroad or looking at you, The Nickel Boys) – not a glossing over of America’s worst sin – beautifully written – not easy per se to get through but not a […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Fiction Tagged With: lots of content warnings, Robert Jones, Jr., terese marie mailhot

wicherwill's CBR15 Review No:11 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Fiction · Tags: lots of content warnings, Robert Jones, Jr., terese marie mailhot ·
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whoo women can be terrible too! #girlboss

My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh

April 4, 2023 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

What a WEIRD book, and yet another in the long list of books that could best be deemed “female friends who should really not be friends anymore.” Reva, you deserve so much better! Narrator, I don’t think you deserve worse but you definitely need someone different in your life to zhush it up. It’s becoming a bit of a cliche that every novel I read immediately prompts a slew of “oh it reminded me of-” reminiscing. Such is the champagne problem of reading a lot, […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Ottessa Moshfegh

wicherwill's CBR15 Review No:8 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Ottessa Moshfegh ·
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