Cannonball Read 18

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Sparrow by Mary Tebo

Home Away From Home by Nazneen Akbari

Upside-Down Iftar by Maysa Odeh

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  Culture is an interesting subject to read about. I have recently read several titles that give us a little insight into some cultures that might be different from ours, but also show how things are universal, too. Worldly books are perfect additions to anyone’s library. In the Western Wall, lives a Sparrow. The story slowly builds to the end where the idea of hope has unfolded in a special way. Mary Tebo’s story is clever and sweet, but also has a bit of an […]

Jane Austen and Jeeves Meet the Real Housewives of Sex and the City

Wives Like Us by Plum Sykes

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Bingo 13: Family Wives Like Us is sort of like Jeeves written by Jane Austen featuring the Real Housewives of the Cotswolds with a touch of Sex and the City (the focal friend group parts of it at least). It’s about a bunch of married or recently un-married ladies approaching 40 and their people, some husbands and kids, caring a little too much about their Instagram. Relationships are the key, both the married family kind, and the found family kind. On the one hand, this […]

Not the right chemistry for me

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

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Bingo 12: School Some of the more significant moments especially towards the beginning of Lessons in Chemistry, as well as some later generally consistent episodes related to school work and learning put this one in the School spot. It’s no secret that being female in academia has been a challenge for a significant part of history, and Lessons in Chemistry starts with the worst parts of the 1950s-1960s horrific treatment of women in higher education (seriously, there should be a CW for the assault scene). […]

When the coconuts are the most interesting part of the vampire story

A Tempest of Tea by Hafsah Faizal

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Bingo 10: Migrant More than one important character in A Tempest of Tea appears to have migrated due to war/colonization/etc. to the main location of White Roaring, Ettenia. The effects of colonial violence is a actually a theme in the story, so here it is in the corner top square. I figured that a story featuring a street-wise crook (that’s Artie) and her crew, vampires, and political tensions might get a little dark, but yikes, both to the violence and the suggestions for the sequel. […]

Who has the right to history?

The Memory Hunters by Mia Tsai

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The Memory Hunters fulfills the “red” square for CBR17 Bingo. I really enjoyed Mia Tsai’s Bitter Medicine, and was very excited to try The Memory Hunters, which is a completely new world and setting. It is set in a type of near future where climate change has resulted in much of the coast as we know it being devastated and swallowed by the ocean and storms, and fungi being used as a way to collect and remember history. It opens when Kiana Strade, a memory […]

Ariadne by Jennifer Saint

Ariadne by Jennifer Saint

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My one best friend is going to strangle me if I don’t finish this book and send it to her already. I got this with her two years ago and promised to send it. And honestly if it wasn’t for that and being on a nice long break before next Thursday, I would have probably just sent this thing to her without trying to read it. I am a sucker for Greek myths though and I heard this re-telling was good, but honestly it’s just […]



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