Fiction – Page 47 – Cannonball Read 17

I cannot live this way. I have nowhere to go. I have nobody to turn to. I am a nonsense.

Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

July 15, 2023 by Leedock 1 Comment

CBR15PASSPORT (Stamp #6: Books recommended by friends. Namely ALL of you.) CBR15 BINGO: (Queer Lives square: queer author and queer characters.) What did I just read? I’m not mad about it. I’m glad that I read it but I have so many thoughts. So many thoughts that I’m not sure I can articulate them properly. So many thoughts that are DEFINITELY spoilery. For the 2 or 3 of you that haven’t read these books yet…please do. Don’t however, read this review because I think it […]

The past is never past

Beauty is a Wound: A Novel by Eka Kurniawan

July 8, 2023 by ElCicco 2 Comments

Cbr15bingo Asia & Oceania I have never before read a novel quite like Beauty is a Wound. It is a combination of history, myth, magic, spiritualism, violence and absurdity. Set in the fictional Indonesian town Halimunda, Beauty is a Wound is the story of three generations of a family and of Indonesia under Dutch colonialism, Japanese occupation, and the political strife that followed WWII. It is about the greed and selfishness that allows individuals and nations to dominate, use and abuse the objects of their […]

Not my usual thing, but very enjoyable.

Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson

July 6, 2023 by narfna Leave a Comment

I will be honest, I only got Black Cake from BOTM because it was the only Book of the Year in 2022 that I hadn’t already read, and you get a free one every year. I didn’t want to say no to a free book. And I’m glad I got it! This was highly readable and emotionally affecting, even if it wasn’t always able to hold my attention perfectly (lots of little breaks for romance novels, fanfic, etc. — I am who I am). And […]

It’s a bestseller for a reason!

The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin

July 1, 2023 by genericwhitegirl Leave a Comment

If you knew the day you would die, how would that change the way you live? Chloe Benjamin explores this idea in her second novel about four siblings who, in New York in 1969, learn just that. Simon, Klara, Daniel, and Varya sneak off to see a fortune teller whose gift is knowing your death date. After they each learn how long they’ll live, we hear about their separate stories. At 17, Simon leaves New York for San Francisco with his sister Klara, who is […]

A run of the mill mystery

Or Else by Joe Hart

June 25, 2023 by genericwhitegirl Leave a Comment

I’ve read a few of Hart’s books and enjoyed them enough to see what else was at my library. Or Else came up, so I gave it a go. This mystery/thriller is about Andy, who is having an affair with his neighbor and childhood friend, Rachel. But then Andy receives a threatening note to stop the affair…Or Else. See how that works? Then Rachel’s husband is murdered and she and her kids disappear. Because there wouldn’t be much of a book otherwise, Andy decides he […]

The burden and the gift of knowing one’s history

The Deep by Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, Jonathan Snipes

June 21, 2023 by ElCicco Leave a Comment

The Deep is a novel inspired by a song by the rappers known as clipping (Diggs, Hutson and Snipes). It is the story of Yetu, a 34-year-old wajinru (mer-person) who serves as her people’s historian, and of the burden that this vocation entails. It is also the story of the enslaved people of the Americas and of the trauma handed down through generations. The sea-dwelling people known as wajinru were born from a traumatic experience: their foremothers were land-dwelling women who had been enslaved and […]

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