Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time
| Log in
  1. Follow us on Facebook
  2. Follow us on Instagram
  3. Follow us on Bluesky
  4. Follow us on Goodreads
  5. RSS Feeds

  • Home
  • About
    • Getting Started in CBR17
    • Rules of Respect
    • Cannon Book Club
    • Diversions
    • Fan Mail
    • Holiday Book Exchange
    • Book Bingo Reading Challenge
    • Participation Badges
    • AlabamaPink
    • About Cannonball Read
  • Our Team
    • The CBR Team
    • Leaderboard
    • Recent Comments
    • Participant Interviews
    • Cannonballer Location Maps
    • Our Volunteers
    • Meet MsWas
  • Categories
    • Review Genres
    • Tags
    • Star Ratings
    • Featured Review Archive
  • Fight Cancer
    • How We Fight Cancer
    • Donate
    • CBR Merchandise
  • FAQ
  • Contact
    • Contact Form
    • Suggest a Review
    • 2025 Registration
    • Newsletter Sign Up
    • Newsletter Archive
    • Social Media

Makes You Wanna Holla

The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom

November 5, 2024 by elderberrywine Leave a Comment

cbr16 bingo Rage New Orleans East is a section of town, within the city’s borders, that is nothing like the rest of New Orleans.  It was reclaimed swampland, drained by a couple of Texan developers in the 1950s for the city of tomorrow.  New Orleans was booming at the time, with a massive NASA plant building the Titan rockets.  (Made sense – there was a harbor and it was halfway between Houston and Cape Canaveral.)  New Orleans East was supposed to draw in all the […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: cbr16 bingo Rage, FEMA failure, Katrina, Large family dynamics, New Orleans childhood, Sarah M Broom, Systematic racism, You can't go home again - seriously

elderberrywine's CBR16 Review No:34 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: cbr16 bingo Rage, FEMA failure, Katrina, Large family dynamics, New Orleans childhood, Sarah M Broom, Systematic racism, You can't go home again - seriously ·
Rating:
· 0 Comments

From high up, fifteen thousand feet above, where the aerial photographs are taken, 4121 Wilson Avenue, the address I know best, is a minuscule point, a point of green

The Yellow House by Sarah M Broom

August 6, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

CBR12Bingo – Yellow   This is a recently published memoir that is presented as a family history. Sarah Broom grew up in New Orleans East, a community that others would give her looks when she mentioned it to strangers, and as the youngest of twelve children, she tells the story of her grandparents, her parents, her siblings, herself, and the house at the center of their lives. The memoir tells the family history and its strength here is giving us a series of events from […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir Tagged With: cbr12bingo, Sarah M Broom, The Yellow House, yellow

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:424 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: cbr12bingo, Sarah M Broom, The Yellow House, yellow ·
Rating:
· 0 Comments


Recent Comments

  • Zirza on A Gothic Classic for a ReasonIt's one of those wish-you-could-read-it-again-for-the-first-time books. I loved it.
  • Emmalita on “It came to something when you found yourself hoping that the footsteps you heard were ghosts.”I loved the ending! I don’t think it’s been out long enough to talk about why though.
  • Dixie on Track Her Down by Melinda LeighI am just starting Track Her Down and I have read them all in order till now and thought I...
  • Roland of Gilead on How can you give us the gift of a crazy character named Rando Thoughtful and then just as suddenly take that gift away? We need to talk, Uncle Stevie.I came across this randomly years after it was written because I was searching "Random Thoughtful. But I have the...
  • Emmalita on “Only you, Em, would refer to heartbreak as a distraction. I think I would have a more sympathetic response if I asked to marry a bookcase.”Oh my goodness, Gallifrey was beautiful. I’m sure her mittens were gloriously murdery.
See More Recent Comments »

Support Our Mission

  • Support Our Mission: Donate Today!
  • FAQ
  • Shop
  • Volunteers
  • Leaderboard
  • AlabamaPink
  • Contact

Help Our Mission

You can donate to CBR via:

  1. PayPal
  2. Venmo

The reviews and comments posted on this site reflect the opinions of individual posters and do not reflect the views of Cannonball Read.

© 2025 Cannonball Read Inc., a registered 501(c)(3) | Log in