Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

…another man and what he wanted from me was the last thing I needed

Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams

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This was a popular CBR11 book and I mostly agree with everyone’s previous reviews. It is a truthful, funny, and often cringe-inducing look at a young woman in crisis. Queenie is 25 years old, uninspired by her job, and going through what she thinks is a temporary rough patch in her relationship with her live-in boyfriend, Tom. As Queenie gradually becomes aware that Tom is pulling further away from her, she begins seeking solace and affirmation in all of the wrong places. The lingering instability […]

Everyone Needs Their Own Group of Corgis

Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams

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This novel is one of the books that I received from Bonnie for the Cannonball Read Book Exchange.  One thing to know is that I had the hard cover copy of the book checked out from my community college library (which has an amazing collection of new fiction with few folks on the waitlist) for an embarrassingly long time—since maybe July (just kept renewing it . . .). Just when I was starting to get threatening e-mails from circulation mentioned the replacement cost of the […]

No disrespect to Bridget Jones, but Queenie is so much more

Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams

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I posted four reviews yesterday but I also finished two books so I figure at this rate I’ll be wrapping up my backlog around 2021… Queenie! Another good one. This is the book that everyone has been comparing to Bridget Jones Diary, until they actually read it.  The main characters are single women in Britain, but that’s about where the similarities end. The big difference is that Queenie is so much more complex and developed than Bridget Jones (no offense, Bridget — I do love […]

This Cannonballer says read it

Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams

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This had been on my list and then I saw that a number of Cannonballers had read it before me (namely, lumenatrix and scootsa1000) and then I SUPER wanted to read it. Other reviewers give it kind of a Bridget Jones-y feel but, never having read or watched those, I picked up on some similarities with, of all things, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine. Mostly in its mental health angles, but you might see what I mean. Or I might be totally off base. I also […]

She is Not Bridget, She’s Queenie

Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams

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A lot of the other mentions I have seen for this book compares it to Bridget Jones’s Diary. I can see why the comparison is made, and for about the first quarter I can almost see it, but this book really is something else entirely and the comparison is overall pretty shallow and off base. Queenie is a young black woman in London. She is working for a magazine and trying to find her voice as a writer and work her way off the “Events” […]

Being brave isn’t the same as being okay.

Queenie by Candice Carty-WIlliams

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I hadn’t heard of Queenie, until I read vel veeter’s recent review, and made an immediate mental note to check it out. I’m glad I did. From Amazon: Queenie Jenkins is a 25-year-old Jamaican British woman living in London, straddling two cultures and slotting neatly into neither. She works at a national newspaper, where she’s constantly forced to compare herself to her white middle class peers. After a messy break up from her long-term white boyfriend, Queenie seeks comfort in all the wrong places…including several […]



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