cbr11bingo – Page 62 – Cannonball Read 17

It Doesn’t Look Good, Folks

The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells

August 8, 2019 by ASKReviews Leave a Comment

BINGO: Science Best for: Those looking for specific clear descriptions of what the earth may look like at different levels of warming. In a nutshell: Science writer Wallace-Wells looks at what has happened so far, what is likely to happen, and what the greater implicates will be as related to climate change. Worth quoting: “Almost regardless of your politics or your consumption choices, the wealthier you are, the larger your carbon footprints.” “More than 140 million people in just three regions of the world will […]

The Garment in Which Memory is Stitched

My Wedding Dress: True-life Tales of Lace, Laughter, Tears, & Tulle by Edited by Susuan Whelhan & Anne Laurel Carter

August 8, 2019 by Ale Leave a Comment

Finding my own wedding dress was a study in disappointment. I didn’t have any of the appropriate reactions I felt I was supposed to have, and the ‘yes, this is the dress,’ moment didn’t happen until I went to the last fitting. Indeed the entire process of planning my wedding unearthed strange emotions and bizarre traditions and expectations I’d never thought mattered very much. In the end it was a great day, and much to my own annoyance, I have to admit I’m glad we […]

Outer. Space!

Fortune's Pawn by Rachel Bach

August 8, 2019 by Jake Leave a Comment

Read as part of CBR11bingo: Not in my wheelhouse. If you’re curious about the title, google “Adam Driver Llewyn Davis.” If nothing else, you’ll randomly see Kylo Ren going against Poe Dameron. Science fiction is not my thing but whenever I’m in a Star Wars mood, I crave scifi books. Fortune’s Pawn wound up on one recommended list or another. I always start a book like that and then wonder why I bother. This one was no different. But I gritted through and this is fine, entertaining military […]

The Shop Around the Corner

The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald

August 7, 2019 by jeverett15 Leave a Comment

CBR 11 Bingo – Not My Wheelhouse Halfway through this extremely short novel I was preparing the scathing review I was sure I was going to leave here. A comedy of manners without comedy, a too-precious by half story, the personification of the word “quaint.” All of these were phrases I was planning to deploy with devastating effectiveness. But then something happened. Not in the plot, although there is a slight story here, but in the effect the novel was having on me. Middle-aged widow […]

“The fairy silver brought you a monster of fire for a husband, and me a monster of ice.” (Bingo)

Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

August 7, 2019 by Malin Leave a Comment

#CBR11 Bingo: Listicle (on a bunch of best of 2018 lists, including NPR, Bustle and Bookbub). Would also work for “Award Winner”, as it’s won a Locus Award, and ALA Award and an Audie, or “Remix”, as it’s a fairy tale retelling. Miryem is the daughter and granddaughter of Jewish moneylenders, but her father is a dreadful one, who doesn’t have the heart to actually claim back the debts that the villagers owe, even when his daughter is starving and the long, cold winters are making his wife sicker and […]

Exploration of the self in new places

The Far Field by Madhuri Vijay

August 7, 2019 by lowercasesee Leave a Comment

I’ve fallen behind on my reviews again, so please bear with me. The library dumped a lot of books on me at once which is far from a terrible problem but a bit of an issue as I attempted to tear through the lot while mainlining the final season of Orange is the New Black. I can do this. The Far Field is the story of Shalini, a young woman from Bangalore, told across two periods of her life – her past and her present. Her […]

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