The CBR16 Book Bingo Reading Challenge has ended (41 days ago). Thank you so much for playing and for your patience while I was distracted by 750 paper cuts. The final tallies are below, please let me know if I missed something. It’s tough to convey sincerity with a gif, but seriously, thank you for playing, whether you wrote 1 review or 25. Next summer, I think we will do a smaller bingo game, an ING if you will. Let me know in the […]
“If you happen to pass by 84 Charing Cross Road, kiss it for me? I owe it so much.”
84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
When I started writing this review, I could not have told you what made me put 84, Charing Cross Road onto my to-read list back in August 2015. So, then I did what I usually do in that scenario and checked the Cannonball Read archives to see if there was a review that launched it onto my list and sure enough, there were two in 2015 – one by scootsa1000 and another by yesknopemaybe that sealed the deal for me. While it took me 9 years […]
“He is a person, complicated and confused. Just like you.”
Ayesha at Last by Uzma Jalaluddin
Ayesha at Last is a retelling the story of Pride and Prejudice featuring the titular Ayesha, a Muslim woman in her late twenties who has put aside her dreams of poetry and just finished a career change to become a teacher, financed by her wealthy uncle who has been financially supportive of her family since her father’s death including moving them to Canada and giving them the house they share with her grandparents. She is single and being passed on the proverbial marriage mart by […]
Gripping mystery, easy read
Queen of the Tiles by Hanna Alkaf
CBR 16 Bingo – Scandal: A year ago, there was a scandal at the Scrabble competition that resulted in death… The book follows Najwa Bakri, a Scrabble champion who was best friends with the former “Scrabble Queen,” Trina Low, before her mysterious death a year ago at the Scrabble tournament. Najwa is simply trying to move on with her life and get closure, but the other competitors are seeking to take the spot of Scrabble royalty and be the next reigning champion. However, when Trina’s […]
“Some of us exist just a little too loudly for the comfort of those who would prefer we did not exist at all”
The Brothers Hawthorne by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
CBR 16 Bingo – Golden: Money, wealth, literal gold. This 4th instalment in what I assumed would stay a trilogy was unexpected, but I wasn’t disappointed by its existence. It focuses more on Grayson and Jameson than Avery, and it was nice to learn more about them. Grayson and Jameson have both gone away from home, but for different reasons. Grayson leaves to help protect his half-sisters, whereas Jameson goes to seek thrills and play a game. This book was pretty good, but probably my […]
“We are all of us more complicated than the roles we are assigned in the stories other people tell”
Educated by Tara Westover
CBR 16 Bingo – Dreams: Tara dreamed of an education, and then fulfilled those dreams. “Everything I had worked for, all my years of study, had been to purchase for myself this one privilege: to see and experience more truths than those given to me by my father, and to use those truths to construct my own mind.” We selected this book one month last year for my book club, but I didn’t end up reading it then because I was insanely busy that month […]
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