Bingo Square: Delicious! I’m searching for the perfect recipe book. One that is filled with Carrie-friendly, quick, no fuss food that tastes great. I have seen a bunch of reviews for Chrissy Teigen’s Cravings and wondered, is this it?? I’m aware that I’m asking a lot of these books. I basically want them tailored to me, which wouldn’t bring in the big bucks I’m sure. But I’m tired of getting cookbooks and paging through to find one or two recipes I like or would even […]
Because this is not a house for the faint of heart
CBR BINGO: Farenheit 451 While I was fishing around trying to find a banned or controversial book for this review, I stumbled across several articles written in 2016 about a 15-year-old girl in a school district near me. When Jeannette Walls’ memoir, “Glass Castle” was removed from the 9th grade reading list at her school, this young woman was having none of it. She challenged her school district at a board meeting and very succinctly pointed out that the material that the parents were objecting to […]
By the stars, we hope
Bingo Square: Listicles. (From this list. Bonus points for telling me Morgan Matson has a new book out too.) The last humans to leave Earth when the planet was dying are known as Exodans. They were carried away by the Fleet, a large group of spacecrafts able to sustain their lives for centuries, until they could find a habitable planet on which to settle. Instead, they found alien life, and were eventually welcomed into the Galactic Commons – a sort of alien UN. Now able […]
“All that surrounds us comes from death, every part of every city, and every part of every person.” (CBR10Bingo)
Two years ago I read and truly enjoyed Caitlin Doughty’s debut book, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, which chronicled her journey from someone curious about the business of death into an advocate for seeking out what she terms “the good death” and changing the funerary business as it is now in the United States. Besides being an interesting story about her life, the book is basically a treatise about making death a part of your life, of staring down your fears and accepting that death […]
Not just another WWI novel
#cbr10bingo And So It Begins Pat Barker’s Booker-nominated first volume of the Regeneration Trilogy takes place during World War I and, unsurprisingly, deals with the trauma and horror of that conflict. What sets her work apart from other WWI novels, however, is that the action takes place not at the front but at an asylum for British soldiers suffering from what we would now call PTSD. Many of the characters in Regeneration are real people who really knew each other in London and at Craiglockhart […]
#CBR10Bingo: This Old Thing – Kilmeny of the Orchard, or most likely my worst book of the year
#CBR10Bingo: This Old Thing (published in 1910) Spoiler warning! There will be a number of spoilers for the plot of this book, because the only way I will be able to fully vent my spleen on this atrocious piece of writing is by going into minute detail about the MANY things I found dumb, objectionable or downright offensive in this book. You might as well allow yourself to be spoiled, this book is bad and you don’t actually want to waste time reading it. Eric Marshall has […]
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