Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire by Akala
Best for: White people living in the UK; anyone who likes to suggest that there isn’t racism or classism in the UK. In a nutshell: Journalist and rapper Akala discusses racism and classism in the UK and the places it colonized set against the memoir of his life growing up as someone racialized … [Read more]
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
From the author of the Storied Life of AJ Firky, another multi-decade spanning quiet story of lonely people trying to find family and community with mixed results. Plot: Sam was in a car accident that killed his mother and landed him in the hospital with a fractured foot. He hasn't spoken a word … [Read more]
Book Lovers by Emily Henry
Media reviews are subjective at the best of times, but some books will come to you at precisely the right or wrong time and any hope of objectivity is lost. This is one of those reviews. Plot: Nora is your classic urban bitch. She’s the antagonist in every romance, but especially small town … [Read more]
The Voyage of the Morning Light by Marina Endicott
CBR15Passport South Seas Kay and Thea, her newly married and much older half-sister, set off one morning in 1911 aboard the sailing ship, The Morning Light. The ship is a trading vessel bound for the South Seas, and captained by Thea’s new husband, Frances. Never having been to sea … [Read more]
Chick Magnet by Emma Barry
#CBR15 Passport Challenge - Different genres (contemporary romance) Readers of my blog know that all my reviews are written on my personal blog and then crossposted here on the Cannonball Read, which celebrates its fifteenth anniversary this year(!) The recent comment diversion celebrating this, … [Read more]
In Memoriam: A Novel by Alice Winn
In Memoriam is the story of two young men, students from the prestigious (fictional) British public school Preshute, who go off to fight in the First World War. You can imagine, if you are at all familiar with WWI literature, how this tale is going to go, and yet Winn, in her first novel, manages to … [Read more]
