C Pam Zhang – Cannonball Read 17

“But the hubris of excess has mortal consequences.”

Land of Milk and Honey by C. Pam Zhang

November 11, 2024 by Sophia Leave a Comment

I found Land of Milk and Honey (2023) by C. Pam Zhang on NPR’s Books We Love List. The description caught my attention, so I put it on hold at my library. One of the first blurbs on Amazon says, “One of the most pleasurable, inventive reads of the year…fiendishly deliciously fun.” Now that I’ve read it, I’d say that’s a bit misleading. I would not use “pleasurable” and “fun” to describe this book, although “inventive” is very fitting. An American woman in her twenties just got a […]

Another roundup (sorry)

Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert

Transference by BT Keaton

Children of Virtue and Vengance by Tomi Adeyemi

How Much Of These Hills Is Gold by C Pam Zhang

April 13, 2021 by lowercasesee 2 Comments

Another week, another reading roundup from me. Some of these I am sorry to not give more space to and some of these I’m just glad to have in the “done” column. We’ll start with the best of the bunch and then follow in no particular order. Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert The third in the Brown Sisters trilogy and each has gotten better and better. They’re all just very solid romance novels – engaging plot, endearing characters, quick witted dialogue, just a […]

Ba dies in the night, prompting them to seek two silver dollars.

How Much of These Hills is Gold by C Pam Zhang

August 2, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

CBR12Bingo – Money! This is a recently published novel and was also recently nominated for the Booker Prize Longlist. The plot of the novel involves two children of a Chinese mother and a presumably Native father (though I feel like the novel was specifically vague) recently orphaned (first in 1862 in California). We meet them on the day their father has died and we come to realize their mother has died a few years earlier. In this opening section we are working at an almost […]

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