cbr11bingo – Page 111 – Cannonball Read 17

“You see, Watson, but you do not observe.”

House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz

July 4, 2019 by KimMiE" 2 Comments

CBR11bingo: Remix I recently had the good fortune to discover Anthony Horowitz, so my expectations were high when I picked up House of Silk, the author’s Sherlock Holmes mystery. I’ll get right to the point: He exceeded my expectations by a wide margin. The estate of Arthur Conan Doyle commissioned Horowitz to write a Sherlock Holmes novel, and their faith proves to be well placed. Horowitz so beautifully captures the voice of John Watson, who characteristically tells the tale, that the novel slides effortlessly into […]

I have somehow become a woman who yells.

Florida by Lauren Groff

July 4, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

CBR 11 – The Collection This is the National Book Award finalist collection by Lauren Groff, the author of Fates and Furies, a book that a lot of people loved and I thought was not good. This collection is better than that novel, but limited in other ways. Part of the reason that I didn’t like Fates and Furies is that there was an inconsistent tone, which had the novel straddling a line between realistic and unrealistic (either would be fine and good) but that […]

There was no point to knocking.

The Great Deliverance by Elizabeth George

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CBR 11 Bingo – And So It Begins This is the first book of the Inspecter Lynley series by the writer Elizabeth George. I don’t know this series very much except that there’s something like twenty of these books (for a series that’s about 30 years old all told) and that each of the books is pretty hefty. We begin with the introduction of our two primary characters — Havers, a down and out patrol officer trying to win her way back onto CID after […]

Claudia Ivanovna was a silly old fool.

The Twelve Chairs by Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov

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CBR 11 Bingo – Far and Away This is a 1928 post-Soviet revolution novel by two young writers. In a significant way, this novel is a lot like Don Quixote, which is not to say it’s a quixotic novel per se, but a novel in which a man who is blinded by illusions about the reality of the present is trying to live with his head in the past. We meet Ippolit Matveyovich, a fallen noble (post-revolution) who is scrabbling in the new regime for […]

That’s how it goes though. The drug dealers in my neighborhood aren’t struggling. Everybody else is.

On the Come Up by Angie Thomas

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CBR 11 Bingo – Youths This is the second novel by Angie Thomas, the author of The Hate U Give. I have to imagine even if she keeps writing and publishing novels, it’ll be awhile before she outpaces the magnitude of that first novel. The thing is, I think this one is better for a few reasons. That’s not to say I really had much criticism for the first novel, only that this one is more fully realized and I would argue is more clearly […]

We Are All Children of Blood and Bone

Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

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#CBR11Bingo – And So It Begins Until that night the maji were able to survive because they used their powers to defend themselves. But eleven years ago, magic disappeared. Only the gods know why (15). This book has been on a lot of “must-read” lists and I’m a fan of writers who draw on diverse cultural traditions to develop their fantasy worlds. One of the things that surprised and intrigued me was how even though this novel is set in a fictional country/region, the story […]

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