There are a few books that have that OMG starting sentence. Daddy Played the Blues has one with: “I was six years old the day we left the farm in Mississippi,” Our heroine Cassie is not really the focus of the book. But Music is. Blues music in fact. In a fiction format we learn about a family that packed up everything they owned in their truck with her Daddy, Uncle and Mama in the front and Cassie and her two brothers in the back. […]
Black girl poetic magic
Electric Arches is collection of poetry by Eve L. Ewing. Her poems muse on the black experience. She reveals painful moments of racism she encounters and add in handwritten font her imagined replies to the N-word. She writes odes to her musical heroes in “Appletree [on black womanhood, from and to Erykah Badu] and “On Prince”. Each poem describes how their music touched her soul. She uplifts the ordinary with her words adding a fantastical gloss of wonder. “so in this world, grease is a compliment, no […]
Either Rothfuss is a good salesman, or I’m just weak when it comes to books
Having met my Cannonball 9 goal, I decided to re-read The Name of the Wind using the 10th anniversary edition. Initially, I wasn’t going to buy this special edition. There are already two copies, one trade paper and one hardcover, in the house. I even told my husband that I wasn’t going to get it. Then Rothfuss blogged details about the anniversary edition. Maps with more detail, explanation of the currency and exchange rates, the calendar, and back history of the empire (and why there is a […]
A mystery for music nerds :)
This book is the most recent addition to my collection that I have purchased based solely on CBR reviews. I’ve learned that when a book keeps popping up here, it’s for good reason and y’all can be trusted to recommend some good stuff! Bellweather Rhapsody is set in an aging hotel in upstate New York during an annual high school music festival. Fifteen years ago there was a murder-suicide in room 712, and this year a girl has gone missing from that same room. It’s […]
“I don’t believe anyone who is legitimately interesting can be popular as a teenager” Mel went on. “Or ever, maybe. Popularity rewards the uninteresting.”
3.5 stars Elise Dembowski has always been painfully uncool at school, and spends an entire summer pretty much studying up on how to become popular, spending much of her savings in the process on a new wardrobe, without any success at all. Things may in fact have gotten even worse for her. In a moment of despair, she cuts herself pretty deeply, and while bleeding, calls a school mate, who naturally freaks out and has paramedics sent to Elise’s house. After this event, Elise’s divorced […]
Sid is a Jerk
As a person of mixed race (White mother, Black father) who loves the blues, I thought that a book like Half-Blood Blues (featuring several mixed race characters and blues) would be right up my alley. It was not. In fact, it took me nearly a week to read the first 50 pages and I was bored to death almost the whole time. On page 54 things finally (finally!) got interesting from a story standpoint, but I still had to contend with the writing, which never […]
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