Hope you are enjoying this year's Cannonball Read Book Bingo Reading Challenge. You can get complete information here. I am back with assistance for finding books to meet the bingo circle "Bird". Bird - symbol of a nation; symbol of resistance; birds of a feather; bird’s eye view; has the name of … [Read more]
Lone Women by Victor LaValle
After the death of her parents, Adelaide Henry arrives in Montana to homestead as a 'lone woman' with an enormous secret hidden in her sole possession, a steamer trunk. This is a real mishmash of genres and themes going on here - there's horror, there's crime, there's family drama, there's some … [Read more]
Buckeye: A Novel by Patrick Ryan
About a hundred pages into this book, I considered DNF’ing it. The characters didn’t interest me much and the small town America setting bored me. But then things started to get interesting — new characters, intrigue, trauma and secrets. This is a story of multiple generations of families in a small … [Read more]
Bring The House Down by Charlotte Runcie
Rating: 4 Stars In a nutshell: Sophie and Alex are sent to Edinburgh Fringe for a month to write reviews of shows and exhibitions. After Alex writes a scathing review on night one, then sleeps with the star without telling her, things transpire. Best for: I think this is meant to be a sort … [Read more]
Solitude Creek by Jeffrey Deaver
Bingo: Repair. The heroine has to repair many things: her reputation with the police department, her relationship with her kids, her love life. A few decades ago I was hooked on Jeffrey Deaver’s books. They were suspenseful and filled with amazing twists I never saw coming. I read a few books of … [Read more]
Outsider Animals by Marlene Zuk
CBR18 BINGO: Bird, because it has chapters about gulls, cowbirds, and common mynas Anyone who knows me knows how much I love critters. I'm frequently amazed that people are genuinely afraid of coyotes, animals of which stray cats are justified in being wary, but which pose almost zero threat to … [Read more]
The Witch by Fredia McFadden
I really have to stop hoping that McFadden gets back to The Housemaid success in terms of her writing. I find myself so bored with her latter works. And now there is a blurb in the front that we won't read about sex and other things since she wants her family to be able to read the books. Maybe … [Read more]
