cbr12bingo – Page 70 – Cannonball Read 17

Just one last job

The Singer's Gun by Emily St. John Mandel

July 21, 2020 by Carriejay Leave a Comment

Bingo Square: Money! Anton Waker grew up making money illegally. His parents deal in stolen goods and, with his cousin Aria, Anton has made a lucrative business supplying false passports and social security numbers to illegal immigrants. But he wants out of the family business. He’s ‘gone straight’ at a desk job, working his way up through the company, and about to be married. His seemingly ordered world falls apart when a routine background check at work shows his college diploma is as fake as […]

I wish I liked this more

Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living by Nick Offerman

July 20, 2020 by Carriejay 1 Comment

Bingo Square: No Money! (I got this from the tiny free library nearby) This is a memoir come advice book I guess. It covers most of Offerman’s life from birth to early career, Parks and Rec success, and meeting his wife, Megan Mullally. Interspersed throughout are humorous takes on how to be a man, discussions on religion, woodworking, and so on. I guess what you’d expect from a book by Nick Offerman. I had really enjoyed the book he wrote with his wife, The Greatest […]

The Blood of the Lamb

Once You Go This Far by Kristen Lepionka

July 20, 2020 by Jake Leave a Comment

Read as part of cbr12bingo: Gateway. I frequently recommend Kristen Lepionka’s work to budding mystery fans, especially ones looking for an LGBTQIA+ author and/or protagonist. I don’t know how long Kristen Lepionka plans to continue with this series. I believe her next book is going to be a standalone separate from Roxane’s character (and perhaps universe?). I think she’s of the modern age sort of writer that unless you really catch bestselling fire with a series (a la Michael Connelly’s Harry Bosch), there comes a […]

A Sweet Romance

The Flatshare by Beth O'Leary

July 20, 2020 by Tracy Leave a Comment

CBR 12 Bingo: Money! (I think this fits the category.) So, the flat that is being shared is a 1-bedroom. More specifically, a 1-bed. Tiffy and Leon, our romantic leads, have an arrangement in which they will only ever be in the flat when the other person is out. Leon works nights as a nurse and spends the weekends with his girlfriend (until they break up), and Tiffy works a day job and gets to have the flat on weekends. By agreement they each sleep […]

Mennonite #MeToo

Women Talking by Miriam Toews

July 20, 2020 by Wanderlustful Leave a Comment

Women Talking is a fictionalized story that is founded on a real story- the ‘ghost rapes’ that occurred in the Manitoba Mennonite colony in rural Bolivia between 2004 and 2009. For years, women would awake groggy, with signs that they had been sexually assaulted. Eventually one of the rapists is caught in the act; he confesses his role in the rapes and implicates 8 other men from the colony. Toews, who is from a Mennonite community in Canada, took this horrific story and turned it […]

When will my reflection show / who I am inside (CBR 12 Bingo: Cannonballer Says)

Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino

July 20, 2020 by octothorp Leave a Comment

Thanks Lowercasesee for the recommendation from last year’s CBR, even if this was absolutely something I heard about from multiple sources as being up my alley, I’m giving you the credit for having the pull quote I liked best from the book as well. “…planning a wedding is the only period in a woman’s life where she is universally and unconditionally encouraged to conduct everything on her terms.” Huyup. I was pretty damn easygoing as a bride (seriously, one of my bridesmaids was convinced we […]

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