Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke
We meet bright, but cold Natalie Heller as she goes off to Harvard. Instead of experiencing the world, making friends and learning, the experience shows her that what she knows is "right" and that the world is wicked. She meets a man, a man who's family is wealthy and heavily connected to politics … [Read more]
Copenhagen by Michael Frayn
CBR Bingo: Success, because a lot of the back and forth in this is about Heisenberg defending his successes in the German nuclear program versus Bohr's more success-y success with The Manhattan Project. SO the story here: I've been wanting to see this play performed live for, oh, 10-15 years? I … [Read more]
Daggerbound by T. Kingfisher
CBR Bingo "left" because the Dervish (Dervish? he sometimes is The Dervish and sometimes just Dervish, it's hard to tell) has been left behind, without his mercenary party, and will keep being so given the whole immortal being hanging out with human meat Having not … [Read more]
In Your Court: Serve or Receive? by Kit Haley
CBR18 Bingo: Season - Tennis court seasons (hard court, clay, grass, etc...) Miles Callahan and Matteo Russo are rivals. Miles is ranked number four in the world and is America’s next big tennis hope. Matteo, an Australian former teenage tennis phenom, is unranked and is fighting his way back … [Read more]
Whack Job: A History of Axe Murder by Rachel McCarthy James
CBR18 Bingo: Repair - The axe is a tool used to fix a lot of things - houses, sheds, ships. In this book, it can provide a murderous solution to people's problems too. The phrase 'axe murder' conjures images of a brutal, gruesome, and somewhat old-fashioned crime. The history of the axe murder … [Read more]
Heartstopper: Volume 6 by Alice Oseman
CBR Bingo: Middle, because I'm taking the ending of this book to be the start of the middle of Nick and Charlie's story--six volumes, and now it's the end of the beginning Kudos to Alice Oseman for landing this tricky plane--a six volume graphic novel about a teenage love story, which by its very … [Read more]
