#CBR15 passport – Page 2 – Cannonball Read 17

Another one of those moments when Ruby had to choose whether to go crazy or just deal. A close call this time.

Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff

August 4, 2023 by carmelpie Leave a Comment

“It never fails,” Montrose said. “No matter what they do to you, afterwards it’s like nothing happened. You’re supposed to just be grateful you’re still breathing.” Upon receiving a letter from his estranged father, Atticus Turner returns to his hometown to discover his father missing. He and his uncle George follow the trail to Ardham, Massachusetts, where, with the help of their hometown friend Letitia, they learn secrets about Atticus’s late mother’s family history, and how he and his family could be the keys to […]

CBR15 Bingo: You are Here

De kaller meg ulven (They Call Me the Wolf) by Zeshan Shakar

July 11, 2023 by Malin Leave a Comment

#CBR15 Passport Challenge: Books from different countries (Norway) CBR15 Bingo: You are Here (It’s set in Norway, where I am) 15-word-review: A son constantly yearning for more social mobility tries to understand his elderly father, unsuccessfully. Official book description (translated from Norwegian by me): “Why didn’t they have more? I remember thinking after my grandmother died. They were from here, Norwegian, shouldn’t they have had more things? Those things other Norwegian parents and grandparents have, at least a simple cabin, the kind without power or […]

“The pit was full of bones and her hands were full of wires”

Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher

July 7, 2023 by Malin 1 Comment

4.5 stars #CBR15 Passport Challenge: Books I already own CBR15 Bingo: Violence 15-word-review: Princess Marra has to complete three impossible tasks to kill her brother-in-law. A quest follows. Longer review: Marra, the youngest princess in a small, rather insignificant kingdom, who has spent half of her life in a convent and so is almost, but very significantly not, a nun, has been set three impossible tasks by a dust-wife (a magic-wielding woman who can communicate with the dead). She must spin thread out of nettles […]

This book was seriously over-hyped

Funny You Should Ask by Elisa Sussman

July 7, 2023 by Malin 3 Comments

#CBR15 Passport Challenge: Books I Already Own 15-word review: Chani reunites with actor Gabe, the man she wrote about ten years ago. Sparks fly. Official book summary: Then. Twentysomething writer Chani Horowitz is stuck. While her former MFA classmates are nabbing book deals, she’s in the trenches writing puff pieces. Then she’s hired to write a profile of movie star Gabe Parker. The Gabe Parker–her forever celebrity crush, the object of her fantasies, the background photo on her phone–who’s also just been cast as the […]

Podcasting reaches its natural conclusion

I Have Some Questions For You by Rebecca Makkai

June 29, 2023 by wicherwill 1 Comment

Cannonball passport: Thank you to my friend Lydia for the recommendation! Oh literary thriller you say? Hints of The Secret History? Hahaha no it’s already in my cart and I’m going to read it. There are a few “it’s quite like x” statements that lead to me immediately jumping on a bookwagon, and The Secret History is definitely high up on that list (if I had to think of others, definitely…Pride and Prejudice retellings, anything friends/enemies-to-lovers, and anything Naomi Novik writes, apparently). Having never read Makkai’s other opus (The […]

A Spell of Good Things by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀

June 29, 2023 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

Cannonball Passport: Still in Nigeria~ Adébáyọ̀ is on some well-trod ground with this, her second (?) book that examines the intersection between the haves and have nots—a dynamic replicated worldwide (oh hi, San Francisco/New York/London) but of particular interest when set in Nigeria, where most of the Western world assumes that there’s mainly have nots that need to be white savior’d. Eniola is the eldest son of an unemployed father, a professor who cannot fathom taking a lower paying lower status role in the rapidly […]

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wicherwill's CBR15 Review No:16 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #CBR15 passport, ayobami adebayo ·

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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