cbr12bingo – Page 67 – Cannonball Read 17

Beautiful and Heartbreaking

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

July 24, 2020 by Wanderlustful 1 Comment

Set in the early 1940s, The Bluest Eye is the story of three young black girls living in Lorain, Ohio: two sisters, Claudia and Frieda MacTeer, and a foster child taken in by their family, Pecola Breedlove. The first page tells us that bad things are in store for Pecola- she becomes pregnant with her father’s baby and that baby dies- and then Claudia narrates the fall, winter and spring that lead to those events. Interspersed in between Claudia’s chronological account of these three seasons […]

Pretty people doing not pretty things

The Great Gatsby: The Graphic Novel by Fred Fordham

The Great Gatsby: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by K. Woodman-Maynard

July 24, 2020 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

cbr12bingo The Roaring 20’s The Roaring 20’s probably would not be the Roaring 20’s if not for The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I am not going to go all English Lit on you and say the meaning of the story but will tell you it is about several 20-to 30-something rich, spoiled, brats (editorial comment) and their boredom. You can say that our narrator is unreliable, judgmental, the whole works. Or not. But in the end, what it is all about is people […]

The Root of All Evil

Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man by Mary L. Trump, PhD

July 23, 2020 by ElCicco Leave a Comment

Cbr12bingo Money Mary L. Trump’s book has been called a Trump family “tell all,” but this is less a family history than an analysis of the family dynamics that created Fred Trump’s little monster, Donald. There are some interesting family details there, most of which have already been revealed in the media hype surrounding its release, but Mary L. Trump spends much of her book (which is less than 250 pages and a pretty quick read) trying to explain how Donald became the self aggrandizing […]

Doesn’t Seem Worth Continuing the Series

Moving Violation by Melanie Jackson

July 23, 2020 by Tracy Leave a Comment

CBR12 Bingo: Fresh Start Moving Violation is the first book in the Chloe Boston Cozy Mysteries series. Chloe is a 20-something meter maid working for the Hope Falls Police Department. She wants to be a regular officer, preferably a detective, but at 5 feet tall and 98 lbs, she was unable to pass the physical exam. Her father, who was police chief at the time, allowed her to join the Traffic and Parking division anyway. Chloe is disrespected by some of the other officers (possibly […]

“Hey baby, you must have been something before electricity” (CBR12Bingo: Nostalgia)

Caddyshack by Chris Nashawaty

July 23, 2020 by octothorp Leave a Comment

I’m kind of cheating a bit on my Nostalgia entry, but I’m hoping four half-counts add up to it counting. 1) This book is about the making of Caddyshack, and the people interviewed are legitimately nostalgic for the making of the movie. 2) It’s a movie about teenagers, even if I personally wasn’t a teenager in the 70s (Tangent time: also, my teen years were spent watching older movies and listening to early 90s grunge and indie bullshit, making for some very uncomfortable twentysomethings hitting […]

Oooh, you make me live (CBR12Bingo: Friendship)

The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage by Sydney Padua

July 23, 2020 by octothorp Leave a Comment

I’m sure that tagging this as fiction and non fiction seems confusing to anyone who has not read this book. It’s a strange one, but a damn good one. The first dozen or so pages are 100% non-fiction, devoted to the life of Ada Lovelace, the daughter of the “mad, bad, and dangerous to know” Lord Byron and the absolute last person in the world who should have married him, a woman who then raised Ada alone and kept her from following in her father’s […]

Zirza on A Gothic Classic for a ReasonIt's one of those wish-you-could-read-it-again-for-the-first-time books. I loved it.
Emmalita on “It came to something when you found yourself hoping that the footsteps you heard were ghosts.”I loved the ending! I don’t think it’s been out long enough to talk about why though.
Dixie on Track Her Down by Melinda LeighI am just starting Track Her Down and I have read them all in order till now and thought I...
Roland of Gilead on How can you give us the gift of a crazy character named Rando Thoughtful and then just as suddenly take that gift away? We need to talk, Uncle Stevie.I came across this randomly years after it was written because I was searching "Random Thoughtful. But I have the...
Emmalita on “Only you, Em, would refer to heartbreak as a distraction. I think I would have a more sympathetic response if I asked to marry a bookcase.”Oh my goodness, Gallifrey was beautiful. I’m sure her mittens were gloriously murdery.

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