I will confess that I have a mild aversion to poetry. I am wary that any poetry event could turn into a Vogon Poetry reading*. I was reminded that April is National Poetry Month, so I went looking for Cannonballer’s reviews about poetry. When I read Siege’s review of A Book of Luminous Things by Czesław Miłosz, I was intrigued by what poem could have motivated her to read a whole anthology of poetry. Maybe she will tell us, or maybe she doesn’t want to […]
Ranging from Excellent to Mediocre
Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo
Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig
Pride by Ibi Zoboi
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
None of these books fit into my reviewing theme this year (revisiting series I’d never finished), but I wanted to review Clap When You Land anyway because it is excellent, and I decided to throw the other three in as a bonus. Clap When You Land: 5 stars. Plot: Camino lives in the Dominican Republic with her Tia and sees her father every summer, when he comes back from New York City to visit. When his plan tragically crashes and everyone aboard dies, she discovers […]
Poetry and dogs and cats and wheelbarrows oh my
Love That Dog by Sharon Creech
Hate That Cat by Sharon Creech
When I first came to work at the bookstore one of my coworkers had been in the business for several years (but not at “our” store) and one author he liked was Sharon Creech. I would read a few of her books because of his recommendation and the new one that had just come out. But I realized she was an author that wrote books you “liked or not” that book but not necessarily a “like or not” the actual author kind of author. I […]
When Langston Found Langston
Finding Langston by Lesa Cline-Ransome
Finding Langston by Lesa Cline-Ransome is an interesting look at the late 1940s, Chicago, growing up and literature that was way too short. I would have enjoyed more of the history of the time and seen a bigger connection to the two people called Langston. Still, I enjoyed what I read but, like I said, there needed to be more: more of the history of the times (Why were the black families moving north? Why were the soldiers were coming back? Even the fact that […]
I Don’t Get Verse
The Emperor's Babe by Bernardine Evaristo
Best for: Fans of the author’s previous work. People who want to have to work really hard to understand what they are reading. In a nutshell: Zuleika is a Sudanese woman living in Londinium in 211. She is married as a pre-teen, then eventually starts an affair with the Roman emperor. Worth quoting: “She moaned she had no time to herself now. I moaned that was all I had.” Why I chose it: It was part of a subscription box. Review: I want to challenge […]
CBR13 #2: A Book of Luminous Things – Edited by Czesław Miłosz
A Book of Luminous Things by Czesław Miłosz
I don’t think I’ve read a poetry anthology since college — and even then, I mostly just read the poems we were studying and ignored both the commentary and all the other poems. A Norton Anthology of Poetry can be a very intimidating book, after all. I didn’t actually intend to read one this time, either. However, I happened to come across a poem by Eastern European poet Czesław Miłosz which I liked, and when I googled him I discovered he’d edited this anthology. I figured […]
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