I have a rather large back log of books to review and, I’m not gonna lie, I’ve been trying to squeeze them into as many bingo slots as possible. So when I went looking for author birthdays I was completely delighted when I found Kurt Vonnegut had been born on November 11th. This places him within the required time line and Cat’s Cradle fills the Birthday slot on my bingo card (and guys, I’m so close to Bingo). So this book, like a lot of […]
Insight Into The Life of an Activist (CBR10 BINGO)
CBR 10 BINGO Square: Two Heads Are Better Than One (Reviewing with my partner, Mr. Lollygagger) Best for: Those who enjoy deeply personal memoirs. In a nutshell: Black Lives Matter founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors shares the story of her life so far, including her work as an activist, artist, and founder of the Black Lives Matter movement. Worth quoting: “For us, law enforcement had nothing to do with protecting and serving, but controlling and containing the movement of children.” “My father attended schools that did little […]
”Joy in every pore”
Hi! We’re lowercasesee (lsc) and NoNeinNyet (NNN) and we joined forces for the CBR Bingo Two Heads Are Better Than One category to review Cary Elwes’s oral history of the making of The Princess Bride. lsc: I like it! Overall, I was utterly charmed, start to finish. NNN: It was great! Just the warmest experience I’ve had with a book in recent memory. lsc: Warm is such a good adjective! There’s just joy in every pore. NNN: All of the cast and crew members interviewed for this oral history clearly still […]
I was cruising right along for the first half, and then. . .
CBR Bingo entry Backlog. This is gonna sound weird, but this novel lost me when it started introducing too much plot. I was loving it for the first half when we were just learning about the characters and making fun of people in Seattle (no offense, Seattle), but then things went off the rails for me, and not in a fun way. Where’d You Go, Bernadette is a story about a semi-dysfunctional family living in Seattle. Bernadette was once a celebrated Los Angeles architect who […]
So, yeah. . .I read this
CBR Bingo entry Listicles: Goodreads’ Best Show Business Memoirs/Biographies I distinctly remember the first time I saw The Princess Bride. Like most fans, I did not see this cult classic during the original theatrical run, but caught it on VHS (that was pre-DVD for you young-us; DVD was pre-streaming for you toddlers). I was in college, hanging out with a couple of friends in a dorm room when one of them decided we should watch this awesome movie she had recently seen. For the next […]
Robot Rebellion
The Alchemy Wars is a series by Ian Tregillis about conscious robots enslaved to humanity and the rebellion that sets them free. As a trilogy of books this review will fill two slots on my bingo card (it’s not cheating, IT’S NOT). The Mechanical, as the first book, will fill the And So It Begins Slot and The Liberation, as the final book, will fill the This is the End slot. I’m going to try to avoid spoilers, but as I am reviewing all three […]
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