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Fiction Year End Round Up

Mrs. Fletcher by Tom Perotta

The Chelsea Girls by Fiona Davis

Lost Roses by Martha Hall Kelley

Mrs Everything by Jennifer Weiner

The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness

Rich People Problems by Kevin Kwan

Bird Box by Josh Malerman

The Inpossible Fortress by Jason Rekulak

You Bring the Distant Near by Mitali Perkins

December 30, 2019 by Caitlin_D 1 Comment

As previously mentioned in my non fiction round up I have failed miserably at Cannonballing this year while still managing to hit my Goodreads Reading Challenge goal. My hope had been to finish my backlog today at work but, while we weren’t very busy there were more people around so I never quite found time to play around on the Internet. Therefore these are going to be even more bare bones than my non-fiction round up. Fiction: The Chelsea Girls – Fiona Davis I read […]

Non Fiction End of Year Round- Up

The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple by Jeff Guinn

The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster by Sarah Krasnostein

Nice Try: Stories of Best Intentions and Mixed Results by Josh Gondelman

People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo- and the Evil that Swallowed Her Up by Richard Lloyd Parry

Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant by Joel Golby

The Library Book by Susan Orlean

December 26, 2019 by Caitlin_D 1 Comment

I think it is safe to say I completely fell off the CBR wagon but as the year draws to a close, and my office currently has a total of five people in, I wanted to try and get caught up on reviews. This seemed like a perfectly reasonable task until I wrote out every book title I still needed to review and realized I was nineteen books behind while still actively reading two other books. So in lieu of complete, well thought out reviews […]

BINGO BLACKOUT

Beowolf by Unknown, Francis Barton Gummere (Translation)

The Mere Wife by Maria Dahvana Headley

October 27, 2019 by Caitlin_D 2 Comments

I did it! I cannot believe I managed to pull this off but I realized that I would probably not participate next year and would have been disappointed to get so close this year only to fall short by a book or two. Lemme tell you though- these last two titles were a struggle… CBR Bingo: Back to School Beowulf, Unknown Over the last few years I have reread several books from my high school years that I loved: In Cold Blood, The Great Gatsby, A […]

Double Cannonball with a Bingo twist!

My Boyfriend is a Bear by Pamela Ribon and Cat Farris

Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell

October 26, 2019 by Caitlin_D Leave a Comment

CBR Bingo: Illustrated My Boyfriend is a Bear, Pamela Ribon and Cat Farris (2 Stars) To be honest graphic novels are probably the most “not my wheelhouse” genre for me but since an illustrated book was required for Bingo My Boyfriend is a Bear checks off this square instead. I chose My Boyfriend because it was written by Pamela Ribon and since I am not a comic reader I didn’t want to read the first of a long series I had no intentions to complete. Obviously one has to […]

CBR Bingo: Not My Wheelhouse, I Love This and Reader’s Choice

99 Percent Mine by Sally Thorne

Good in Bed by Jennifer Weiner

Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

October 23, 2019 by Caitlin_D Leave a Comment

CBR 11 Bingo- Not My Wheelhouse 99 Percent Mine – Sally Thorne I chose a romance novel, Thorne’s The Hating Game, for last year’s Not My Wheelhouse and while I enjoyed it the romance genre floodgates were not opened for me so I chose another kissing book for the same square this year. Darcy Barrett and her twin brother, Jamie, inherited their grandmother’s tear-down of a cottage which has caused some estrangement between the siblings. Their childhood best friend, Tom, has been hired as the contractor […]

narfna on We are just specks of dust in this world, glimmering for a moment in the sunlight and then disappearing into nothing. You have to learn to take your peace with that.I read that book several years back, and your description reminded me of it!
ElCicco on We are just specks of dust in this world, glimmering for a moment in the sunlight and then disappearing into nothing. You have to learn to take your peace with that.I hadn’t expected it to be as harshly realistic as it was. I did like it though. Katherine Boo’s “Behind the Beautiful Forevers” would make...
narfna on We are just specks of dust in this world, glimmering for a moment in the sunlight and then disappearing into nothing. You have to learn to take your peace with that.This sounds really good. I'm not sure I'm up for it emotionally right now, but I'm definitely putting it on my TBR.
narfna on Even better on re-read.Yeah, I don't get creeped out that easily, but this one did it, with animal and the smiley faces and the abandoned estate. Shudder.
andtheIToldYouSos on Even better on re-read.ooooh, this one creeped me out. In the Woods really got me, and it took a few (loved them anyway!) until I was truly scared...

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