cbr11bingo – Page 104 – Cannonball Read 17

Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.

Orlando by Virginia Woolf

July 10, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

CBR11Bingo – History Schmistory This is a wonderful and strange novel in which a biography is tracing the history of a young courtier in Elizabethan England who both makes his way into the future (present in the book) though time, and also becomes a woman in her 30s by the end. I don’t know if I have a lot more to add to the conversations surrounding this book in terms of adding useful discourse. I am no Virginia Woolf scholar or have spent enough time […]

Life is stressful, I want easy books

Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday

July 10, 2019 by lowercasesee Leave a Comment

I kind of wanted to claim this one as “The Collection” but it’s only three stories and two of them are connected, so that felt like cheating. Much like I felt cheated out of a good time reading this book. I think I’ve just got too much going on in my life and all I want are engaging, easy reads. Or even just engaging. So, Asymmetry. Makes kind of sense. There are three stories in here but one of them is fifty perfect of the book. […]

Connection Pending

Day In Day Out by Terézia Mora

July 10, 2019 by blauracke Leave a Comment

Abel Nema, a refugee from a not specified Balkan country and a linguistic genius, is found almost beaten to death and hanging by his feet in a park in an also not specified European city. How exactly he ended up there is explored over the course of the story. There are so many interesting ideas in this book but all have at their heart the theme of human connection and how it is achieved. Abel, for instance, learns to speak ten languages perfectly and without […]

“I fell in love at a bad time.” Clio in Orpheus Girl

Orpheus Girl by Brynne Rebele-Henry

July 10, 2019 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

#cbr11bingo #remix First, I will say, this book may have some trigger moments (The italics is taken from Good Reads: There are scenes in this book that depict self-harm, homophobia, transphobia, and violence against LGBTQ characters. As well as the images of the “treatments”). And then I will say that this review is not all positive and possibly not politically correct. It might go against what you personally believe, but this whole review is how I feel about Brynne Rebele-Henry’s book Orpheus Girl. There is […]

I Got Nothing

Dear Haiti, Love Alaine by Maika Moulite

July 10, 2019 by Classic Leave a Comment

I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. This book will be released on September 3, 2019. “Dear Haiti, Love Alaine” follows seventeen-year-old Haitian American Alaine. Alaine lives in Miami with her father and has a famous mother who is a reporter living in Washington, D.C. Alaine is what I think most people would call “too much.” She is definitely intelligent and it seems holds some pain over the fact that her mother is barely around due to her […]

When the Words Are Caught in Your Throat

Speak: The Graphic Novel by Laurie Halse Anderson

July 10, 2019 by Classic 6 Comments

Trigger warning: Rape I don’t know what to say. I loved “Speak” when I read it back in 2015. I felt for Melinda and wanted to hug her throughout the story and loved how Anderson takes a long road to showing us what happened to Melinda and how her life became unraveled before her freshman year of high school. The graphic novel does a great job with showing us Melinda in the present day and her memories of her friends and of a party that […]

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