cbr11bingo – Page 19 – Cannonball Read 17

We Can’t Only Learn From Our Parents

Educated by Tara Westover

September 30, 2019 by ASKReviews Leave a Comment

BINGO: Birthday: The author’s birthday is sometime in late September. Best for: People who generally trust Barack Obama’s judgment on books. In a nutshell: Tara Westover was raised in a devout Mormon household, with an overbearing father who wouldn’t allow her to go to school. She finds a way to college, and learns about so much that has been hidden from her before. Worth quoting: I listened to this one, so nothing stands out, but the writing is great so I’m sure there are many […]

Gotta read ’em all!

Pokemon X•Y Volume 1 by Hidenori Kusaka, Satoshi Yamamoto

Pokemon X•Y Volume 2 by Hidenori Kusaka, Satoshi Yamamoto

September 30, 2019 by cosbrarian 2 Comments

cbr11bingo – Two Heads Are Better! Pokemon X•Y is a brief manga series inspired by the video games of the same name. A tween came to my library and asked why I didn’t have any and insisted I buy them. So I did. Ha! for the library, not myself. When I read of the “two heads” task for Cannonball, I thought it would be fun to review these with a kid. I have never read a manga nor a Pokemon book. I didn’t know where […]

Bingo #3!

Jackaroo or The Tale of Qwyn by Cynthia Voigt

September 30, 2019 by Ale Leave a Comment

This was hands-down one of my favorite books growing up, and I happened across my old copy of it when cleaning out my basement. What better way to fill the Youths square than with a trip down memory lane, and I was not disappointed. Jackaroo, or The Tale of Gwyn, as it’s now called, was just as solid and enjoyable today as it was 22 years ago when I bought it (based on its cover) at the scholastic book fair. Gwyn, our main character, is […]

Third time through, just as great. #CBRBingo – I Love This

Carry On by Rainbow Rowell

September 30, 2019 by narfna Leave a Comment

This book works on multiple levels for me: *It’s swoony and I love the characters. I find it comfortable and reassuring, like a big fluffy blanket. *It’s a smart take on Chosen One stories, upending tropes and challenging expectations. The first time through you think you know what’s going to happen, and then it doesn’t, and something much cooler happens instead. *It’s funny and incisive, and has good things to say about the human emotional cost of magic, of being caught inside a fantasy story. […]

I did not expect to love this book so much, or at all. #CBRBingo – Reader’s Choice

The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

September 30, 2019 by narfna 2 Comments

I really, really liked this. I was actually really nervous about this one because I did not like her first book, The Bone Season, when I read it years ago. It was by turns over- and under-written, and to me at least, was obviously written by someone still finding her writing voice. I was hoping that in the future she would write something else that would show her matured talents, and sure enough, that is exactly what happened. What a difference ten years can make […]

I finally tackle the Temeraire series (four months ago). #CBRBingo – And So It Begins

His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, #1) by Naomi Novik

September 30, 2019 by narfna Leave a Comment

This is why I never DNF books. Well, that and the OCD (legit, not just using it facetiously). I had a hard time getting into this (I’ve had a hard time getting into several books the last couple of months–my brain is not wanting to cooperate with me). It took me what felt like weeks to get past the first thirty pages. And it’s not like what was there was bad, I just couldn’t engage myself in it for some reason. Novik styles the book […]

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