Istanbul by Bettany Hughes
Since March, I have been lusting after travel. I have been planning armchair trips to hike the stone steps of the Inca Trail, leaf peep the fall foliage in upstate New York, tap my shoes along the cobbled streets of Paris. Turkey is right at the top of my wanderlist- I would start in Istanbul and work my south and west. Since I can’t go in person, I decided I would do an armchair visit, starting with this biography of the city and following up […]
The Nickel Boys: A Novel by Colson Whitehead
Cbr12bingo Cannonballer Says, BINGO x2: vertical Red to Money, horizontal Cannonballer Says to Adaptation For the second year in a row, my Cannonballer Says square is filled with a book reviewed by TeresaElectro! Last year it was Rebecca Roanhorse’s excellent Trail of Lightning. This year it’s Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize winning The Nickel Boys. Four years ago I reviewed Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad, which was an amazing tour de force dealing with American history and American racism. The Nickel Boys is another clear-eyed, no-punches-held look […]
Azumanga Daioh Omnibus by Kiyohiko Azuma
Bingo Review 24: Nostalgia I was a teen from the mid-1990s through the early 2000s. I have also had a book on my TBR shelf, the first part of which was published in 2000, both my last bit of high school and first bit of college, that covered a group of girls during their high school years. Thus it seemed fitting to look at Azumanga Daioh Omnibus for the Nostalgia square. As with many comics and manga, it was originally published as a series of […]
The Luckiest Guy Alive by John Cooper Clarke
Cbr12bingo Repeat (for Pandemic) BINGO x2: vertical Uncannon to Repeat, horizontal Money to Violet Over the past seven months of pandemic quarantining, my husband and I have done a lot of mindless TV/video watching, and thanks to the smart TV, we aren’t just limited to regular TV fare but can watch anything that’s on the internet on our big screen. As a result, we seem to have subscribed to, and hence watch, more YouTube channels than anything else. We are big fans of British comedian […]
Close Range by Annie Proulx
Annie Proulx can write. I realize this should be apparent since she’s won a Pulitzer for writing, but this was the first work of hers that I read and I was blown away all the same. Close Range is a short story collection set in Wyoming, with stories that vary in length (40 pages to 2 pages) but not in punch. She sets her stories in the rural central and eastern part of the state, focusing on working class people- because its Wyoming this means […]
Strip by Thomas Perry
This was the first Thomas Perry novel I’ve read, and it moved up my TBR list specifically because I needed a yellow book for CBR bingo. I was expecting ‘detective novel’ but this is more of a ‘thriller’- the detective, Lieutenant Slosser, is a bit part character who takes a backseat to the dueling main characters, aging strip club owner Manco Kapak, the man Manco thinks robbed him, Joe Carver, and the man who actually robbed him, Jefferson Davis Falkins. While Manco is busy sending […]
