Welcome to the CBR16 Bingo week 9 check-in. Check your numbers, check your tags. Ask any questions. you might have. This is the kick-off post with the card, description, and rules. The Players: BlackRaven – 25 reviews, Blackout carmelpie – 7 reviews CoffeeShopReader – 14 reviews Debcapsfan – 1 review drmlz – 4 reviews ElCicco – 19 reviews, 3 Bingos elderberrywine – 9 reviews esme – 1 review faintingviolet – 10 reviews Jake – 23 reviews, 9 Bingos KimMiE” – 10 reviews, 1 Bingo Kit Moonstar – 2 reviews LanierHgts – 1 review […]
Saucy!
The Duke Who Didn’t: Wedgeford Trials Book 1 by Courtney Milan
cbr16bingo And Also —for the Part 1 square For CBR15 I read Courtney Milan’s The Brothers Sinister series (based on recommendations from fellow Cannonballers) and loved it. When I initially asked for advice on where to start with Milan’s work, The Duke Who Didn’t came up frequently. While The Brothers’ Sinister series deals a lot with women’s rights and the suffrage movement, this start to the Wedgeford Trials series has a focus on minorities in England, discrimination, and appropriation. Milan, as ever, is careful and […]
This book itself is also a fiasco, ironically. CBRBINGO – Fiasco
Fiasco: A History of Hollywood's Iconic Flops by James Robert Parish
I keep forgetting to post this review. I think my brain is trying to block out my having read this book on purpose to protect from either, a) dropping dead of a rage aneurysm, or b) dropping dead from the poisonous word salad the author spews on every page. I would not have read this book or even had it on my radar but Cannonball Read’s BINGO board this year had a ‘FIASCO’ square, and when I found this book I thought it would be […]
Perils of Journalism
I Am On the Hit List: A Journalist's Murder and the Rise of Autocracy in India by Rollo Romig
Read as part of CBR16 Bingo: Bollywood. This is a true crime novel about a journalist in India who was murdered, as well as the uniqueness of south Indian culture and the autocratic rule of Modi. Despite it being one of the largest countries in the world, I know very little about India. I knew Britain treated it like garbage for centuries and that, thanks in part to Gandhi, it won its freedom in 1947. I knew that there are tensions between Hindus and Muslims. […]
The Bad Knights
The Lost Order by Steve Berry
Read as part of CBR16 Bingo: golden. The book centers around a fictionalized version of the Knights of the Golden Circle and the book has a quest for gold. First of all, I had no idea that a secret society called the Knights of the Golden Circle actually existed. Formed in 1852, they had a goal of expanding a slavery empire through the southwest United States, into Mexico and central America, and including the Caribbean. All of this happened before the Civil War and they […]
Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Balls, and it’s a war story
Henry V by William Shakespeare
Bingo 14: Détente I’ve re-read Henry V the Shakespeare history play because I’m teaching it and haven’t actually re-read it for a good long while. This play both ends and begins with questionable peace between England and France, so it’s suitable for this square. I don’t actually remember my first read, just being really impressed by Kenneth Branagh’s film version, or perhaps more specifically Patrick Doyle’s score. The choral bit after the battle of Agincourt is pretty impressive. One big thing I noticed upon re-reading […]
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