cbr11bingo – Page 17 – Cannonball Read 17

One of the top most 100 banned books of the decade! (2013)

What My Mother Doesn't Know by Sonya Sones

October 5, 2019 by cosbrarian Leave a Comment

CBR11Bingo – Banned Books Sophie has two lives – the one her mother knows, and the one Sophie hides. The one Mother knows is the sad one. The miserable home life Sophie spends as the only child of two people who hate each other. Her mother is deeply depressed, spending more time with General Hospital than with the family. Her father is cold and distant, unless he and mom are screaming at each other. But in her other life, the one her mother doesn’t need […]

Party Down

Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

October 4, 2019 by lumenatrix Leave a Comment

This is a great short story collection. I found it randomly in my local used book store and since picking it up I’ve seen in on all kinds of “best of” lists, which is great, because this book is great. As with most short story collections I pick up I read it over a bit of time and not all in one go. I like to use short story collections as palate cleansers while reading other books, so it’ll take me a while to finish […]

The Ultimate Patsy

Libra by Don DeLillo

October 4, 2019 by jeverett15 Leave a Comment

CBR11Bingo – History Schmistory At one point in Don DeLillo’s imagined version of the Kennedy Assassination, ex-CIA agent Walter Everett, Jr. philosophizes on the art of fabricating a cover story. The key, he says, is to create a sense of unreality through conflicting information, nonsensical contradictions, inconsistencies and the like. It’s this unreality, this messiness, that feels more real in our crazy world. Truth is stranger than fiction after all, so the key to making a fiction seem like the truth is to make it […]

…using our legs to proceed across the landscape.

A Walk In The Woods by Bill Bryson

October 4, 2019 by Leedock Leave a Comment

CBR11 BINGO: Travel (BINGO! Pajiba square to Science square) This is one of those books that I heard about forever ago and passed by constantly on bookshelves. Novels with nature as a character are kind of my thing but non-fiction generally is not. Once again, Cannonball Read BINGO has pushed me to read something I most likely would have never gotten around to. (I’m just 3 squares from a black out, people. THREE and I will see it to fruition!) A quick Google search of “best travel books” landed […]

Life is too short for books you don’t want to read

Wicked by Gregory Maguire

October 4, 2019 by lowercasesee Leave a Comment

There can come a time when a book is a chore and let’s be real – I’m three weeks out from my wedding, I have enough goddamn chores. I hadn’t gotten quite halfway through when I consciously uncoupled myself from this book and I have no real desire to go back and finish it in the week I have remaining on my library loan. For my Retelling bingo square, I revisited a book I didn’t much care for the first time around either. I was […]

Weird but not wonderful

The Buenos Aires Affair by Manuel Puig

October 3, 2019 by Wanderlustful Leave a Comment

Puig’s most successful novel is generally viewed as The Kiss of the Spider Woman, which was given the Hollywood treatment in the 1980s (John Hurt won an Oscar for Best Actor and the film was nominated for Best Picture and Best Director Oscars). The Buenos Aires Affair pre-dated Kiss, and was Puig’s first foray away from ‘safe’ novels and into seedier topics and more experimental narrative techniques. I can appreciate that he was trying for something different but this was an uncomfortable and not particularly […]

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