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“No loss is felt more keenly than the loss of what might have been. No nostalgia hurts as much as nostalgia for things that never existed.”

An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine

August 3, 2022 by cheerbrarian Leave a Comment

In one word: Hopeful Cannonball Read Bingo Square: Cozy For a few consecutive months, I challenged my work book club to pick its book based on the heritage month (she says, realizing how smug she sounds) and thus, I read this book in April for Arab American Heritage Month. I was wholly unfamiliar with the author but excited to give something international a try. After selecting it for the club, I realized that my public library didn’t have a copy so I put one on […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: an unnecessary woman, arab american heritage month, Beirut, book about books, cbr14bingo, Middle East, national book award finalist, Rabih Alameddine

cheerbrarian's CBR14 Review No:24 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: an unnecessary woman, arab american heritage month, Beirut, book about books, cbr14bingo, Middle East, national book award finalist, Rabih Alameddine ·
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CBRBingo – Far and Away. An epic that is truly epic.

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

July 29, 2019 by cheerbrarian Leave a Comment

I have been waiting a loooooong while for this book to get into my eager hands. A work friend extolled its virtues and it is the September book club pick for one of the clubs I’m in AND I figured it would be good for any number of bingo squares. I went with Far and Away because both the geographical and cultural differences from where I’m sitting in the American Midwest to rural Korea in the 1900s are expansive. While I was reading it, I […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbr11bingo, Min Jin Lee, national book award finalist, Pachinko

cheerbrarian's CBR11 Review No:30 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr11bingo, Min Jin Lee, national book award finalist, Pachinko ·
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Mind the Gap

October 28, 2015 by yesknopemaybe Leave a Comment

I was seriously afraid that I’d be wasting my time on yet another damsel in distress story where the awkward boy gets to find himself and be the hero, but I was pleasantly surprised to find that Bone Gap played with all those expectations and tropes in an unexpected way. This was shortlisted for the National Book Award, so I was hoping it’d be good. It was! Bone Gap is a strange town with some serious secrets. Finn and Sean are two young men/boys just […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: bone gap, contemporary, fantasy, Fiction, laura ruby, magical realism, national book award finalist, Young Adult

yesknopemaybe's CBR7 Review No:67 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: bone gap, contemporary, fantasy, Fiction, laura ruby, magical realism, national book award finalist, Young Adult ·
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