Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Does everyone suck? Well, at least they have magic

The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake

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BINGO – Bird – As in, birds of a feather flock together Six of the best magicians are invited to join The Alexandrian Society which protects all of the knowledge of the Library of Alexandria. Six are invited to live and study at the Library, but only five will make the cut after two years. Nico and Libby are both physicist magicians who can control the forces of nature like fire, waves, and the physical aspect of things. Parisa is a telepath. Callum is an […]

CBR14 Bingo – Week 11 Check-in

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Welcome to the Week 11 CBR 14 Bingo Check-in! You can see the card and the rules on the kick-off post. This week’s mood: Steve Buscemi. I just found out gifs are cringe. So here you go, your weekly gif. Please check your tags and make sure you are using cbr14bingo. Ale – 6 reviews anana – 4 reviews andtheIToldYouSos – 10 reviews ardaigle – 9 reviews, 1 Bingo BlackRaven – Blackout booktrovert – 22 reviews, 8 Bingos Classic – Blackout CoffeeShopReader – 16 reviews, 1 Bingo Debcapsfan – 1 review Dome’Loki –  14 […]

Good Cop/Bad Cat

The Eloquent Scribe: The Sitehuti and Nefer-Djenou-Bastet Series Book 1 by T. Lee Harris

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Cbr14bingo Font The main character is an Egyptian scribe turned investigator The Eloquent Scribe is the first book in a mystery series set in ancient Egypt and features a pair of unlikely investigators — Sitehuti the junior scribe and Nefer-Djenou-Bastet (aka Neffi), the sacred cat of the Temple of Bastet in capital city Pi-Ramesses. While the “mystery” in this novel is pretty straight forward and not terribly hard to solve for the reader, the charm of the story is in the characters and the potential […]

We were merely freshmen (and sophomores)

The Idiot by Elif Batuman

Either / Or by Elif Batuman

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CBR Bingo – two books, one square (and a Bingo!) – adapt, because that’s what we’re all trying to do in college I read The Idiot and Either/Or back to back, so it felt more like a single, longer volume than reading two separate books. Based on Goodreads reviews, some felt that the tone in the second book was a bit different – that wasn’t my experience, but again, back to back reading might help  with the feeling of consistency. I think that’s an important note because the […]

Tears and Anger

A Murder on W Street: The Death of Seth Rich and the Age of Conspiracy by Andy Kroll

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Read as part of CBR14Bingo: new. This book just came out a week ago and it was the newest book in my personal library once it arrived at my house.  One of the best decisions I’ve ever made in my life was to get off Facebook. There were numerous reasons I did it, most of which had to do with personal mistakes I made and not wanting to subject myself to it anymore or be forced to have an opinion when I didn’t. But another reason is […]

Of mice and soup

The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo

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Cbr14bingo Cozy “being the story of a mouse, a princess, some soup, and a spool of thread” This charming Newberry Award winning story is about a heroic little mouse and the princess he loves. It’s also about the pitfalls of being an outsider and the power of forgiveness. Despereaux’s family marks him as different and doomed from the moment he is born. Too small, with ears too big and born with his eyes open (an ill omen), everything about the little mouse disappoints his parents […]



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