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There’s an Important Story and Message Hidden Somewhere in This Thing

Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue

July 31, 2019 by Jen K Leave a Comment

Bingo Square: Own Voices I’d been debating between this and Everything I Never Told You for this category but since I had just read The Bride Test, which was about an Vietnamese-American family and am thinking about reading a book about a Chinese family for my “Back to School” read, I figured I should diversify instead of reading about a Chinese-American family for this. Imbolo Mbue is originally from Cameroon and has lived in the United States for ten years, and her novel follows a […]

I am the mother of a monkey and a daughter

Things You Save In a Fire by Katherine Center

July 31, 2019 by Manimama 2 Comments

Things You Save In a Fire is a pretty quick read that is probably a good beach or vacation book. My 13-year-old daughter agreed to read this book with me for the ‘Two Heads’ bingo square. The title of the post is a sentence she repeatedly tried to insert in to my own answers. Mom: I thought this was a good book. It was a story about Cassie, a firefighter in Texas who moves to Massachusetts when her life gets turned up-side down. It follows […]

The Raft of Medusa

The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells

July 31, 2019 by Jake 1 Comment

Read as part of CBR 11: Science David Wallace-Wells wants us to avoid the trap of fatalism when it comes to climate change. Fatalism is a form of denialism. I get that. I appreciate it. But man, it’s tough to come away from reading this book feeling anything but pessimistic about the future at best and nihilistic at worse. This book is divided into two sections: the potential scientific effects in the near future due to global warming, and how we process that ethically, politically, […]

Some Lessons Are Best Not Repeated

The Woman on the Orient Express by Lindsay Jayne Ashford

July 31, 2019 by lumenatrix Leave a Comment

Ugh, oh man. OK. So, it turns out I reviewed another of Ashford’s books last year, Whisper of the Moon Moth, and I really wish I had realized these books were by the same author before I had started it. It also explains why this stupid book refused to stop popping up in my “Recommended For You” List on my Kindle. A quick recap of why I wasn’t thrilled with Moon Moth: basically I really don’t like novels that try to make suppositions about real […]

Why Is It Always So Hard to Review the Great Ones?

Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie

July 31, 2019 by Jen K 3 Comments

Bingo Square: Award Winner I’ve been meaning to read this novel for quite a while now, but BR 11 Bingo was the final push to get me to start it. I like sci-fi, but some sci-fi can become a bit dry and too technical for me to enjoy, and I feared this might be one of them. As it turns out, I should not have been concerned about that at all. I also started reading Becky Chambers’ novels recently, so it was interesting to read […]

Love of Reading Gone Wrong

Finders Keepers by Stephen King

July 31, 2019 by Jen K Leave a Comment

Bingo Square: Birthday (Stephen King’s birthday is 21 September) Even though I quite liked Mr. Mercedes, I can’t say I was that interested in more novels with the characters. Based on who had and hadn’t survived in Mr. Mercedes, I felt like it ended well as it was, and I didn’t necessarily want to continue reading more about some of the characters without others also being around. However, I still ended up downloading the two other novels in the trilogy when I was granted a […]

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