Welcome to the Week 3 CBR 14 Bingo Check-in! You can see the card and the rules on the kick-off post. This week’s mood: Roy Kent. For the first time in 2 1/2 years I actually watched some tv. I binged a bunch of episodes of Ted Lasso (accidentally starting with the end of season 2). And Whenever I look at all the stuff I have to unpack I swear like Roy Kent. But more importantly, I hope you are enjoying your books as much […]
“This is the strange lesson of living in a pandemic: life can be tranquil in the face of death.”
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
Cannonball Read Book Square: Funky In one word: Tether Reading St. John Mandel I’m reminded of the scene in the AMAZING movie Booksmart, wherein two college-bound BFFs are determined to make up for lost time and live it up the night before their high school graduation. In one of my favorite scenes, best friends Molly and Amy are getting ready to go out and hyping each other up for their respective outfits, aggressively hurling positive affirmations at each other. “Who gave you permission to take […]
“The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.”
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Cannonball Read Bingo Square: Minds I have owned a copy of The Giver for quite a while and it has sat collecting dust on our bookshelf reserved for the classics. My kiddo, on a whim, picked it up and when my 13-year-old picks up something that is a classic, I generally take that as an opportunity to revisit it. (See also, failed attempt to get him to read “A Wrinkle in Time.”) When I picked it up to reread, I soon began to wonder if […]
For all us noodle lovers
That Noodle Life: Soulful, Savory, Spicy, Slurpy by Michael Le and Stephanie Le
That Noodle Life arrived on my radar thanks to emmalita’s review last fall. I wanted to love this book. A cookbook that is all about noodles should be a book I love. Noodles are THE BEST. But sadly, I didn’t love this book. I do like it though, and copied many recipes to keep on hand when my library demanded I give the book back. Mike and Stephanie Le are the creators of iamafoodblog and have written a cookbook that is a love letter to […]
“People feel more comfortable talkin’ about mental health than they have in the past, but it’s still easy to feel alone when you’re in the thick of it.”
Bet On It by Jodie Slaughter
I requested this book from NetGalley specifically because of its Anxiety and Complex PTSD representation. On those fronts this book worked aces for me. The internal lives of Jodie Slaughter’s characters worked exceedingly well for me as a reader. I thought it was very thoughtful about the way mental health struggles were portrayed as part of the overall story, and as a driving factor in that story. Because it is a driving factor, the leads could understand that part of each other’s experience and be […]
“It’s time for the world to let queer black boys unpack their shit.”
All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson
When we had our book club vote for September, I was secretly hoping that All Boys Aren’t Blue would be one of the ones we chose. I was flabbergasted that in November of last year the memoir had a criminal report filed with the Flagler County Sheriff’s office by a member of the Flagler County School Board arguing that the book’s inclusion in three district school libraries violated state obscenity laws because it contained sexually graphic material. It has also been removed from school libraries […]
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