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Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time
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“Too often students are being taught to read as if literature were some kind of ethics class or civics class—or worse, some kind of self-help manual. In fact, the important thing is the way the writer uses the language.”

Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them by Francine Prose

November 14, 2022 by cheerbrarian 4 Comments

In one word: Eye-opening Cannonball Read Bingo: Bird I'M DOING IT. FINISHING MY CANNONBALL BINGO CARD, WITH MERE MINUTES TO SPARE, AND NOT A MOMENT TO WASTE. This book gets the bird bingo card and not just because it's my last one (YAY) but because it is an albatross for me to read. Though I … [Read more]

cheerbrarian's CBR14 Review No:47 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: cbr14bingo, francine prose, reading like a writer ·
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“I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all. I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.”

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

November 14, 2022 by cheerbrarian 2 Comments

In one word: Staggering Cannonball Read Bingo: Hot I will never recover from the origins of this book. That Mary Shelley started writing it to tell a spooky story on a rainy day AT THE AGE OF EIGHTEEN is staggering. And that this story has stood the test of time and become such a classic and … [Read more]

cheerbrarian's CBR14 Review No:46 · Genres: Fiction, Horror · Tags: cbr14bingo, classics, Frankenstein, Mary Shelley ·
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“When my life was new, I understood in my bones how little it mattered what anybody else was doing, or what they thought about what I was doing. I believed my bones then.”

Somebody's Daughter by Ashley C. Ford

November 14, 2022 by cheerbrarian Leave a Comment

In one word: Raw Cannonball Read Bingo: Elephant I've been toying with writing my own book for a few years now, and am finally starting to get serious about the endeavor, or at least get serious about saying I'm getting serious, which is practically the same thing, right? I cashed in a work … [Read more]

cheerbrarian's CBR14 Review No:45 · Genres: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir · Tags: African American writers, Ashley C. Ford, cbr14bingo, childhood trauma, Indiana, Lbgtq, Somebody's Daughter ·
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“Very few things are so important you would risk your life for them, but all sorts of things are important enough to risk somebody else’s life.”

The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder Club #3) by Richard Osman

November 14, 2022 by cheerbrarian 1 Comment

In one word: Humanity Cannonball Read Bingo: Time Squeeeeeeeal. I LOVE YOU FOREVER RICHARD OSMAN. Never ever ever EVERRRRR stop writing these books or it will break my heart. I couldn't believe my fortune when I saw this book on the "hot picks" shelf at my library, thus allowing me to skip … [Read more]

cheerbrarian's CBR14 Review No:44 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: British, cbr14bingo, cozy mystery, Richard Osman, Septuagenarians, thursday murder club ·
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“I will strip away all that you know, all that you love, until you have no shelter but mine.”

Ruin & Rising (Shadow and Bone #3) by Leigh Bardugo

November 14, 2022 by cheerbrarian Leave a Comment

In one word: Predictable Cannonball Read Bingo: Verse Leigh Bardugo created a detailed YA universe with interesting magical elements, warring factions, and all the trappings of a good fantasy tale; however, my time spent in Leigh Bardugo's Grishaverse has been uneven. Though I loved her original … [Read more]

cheerbrarian's CBR14 Review No:43 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: cbr14bingo, grishaverse, Leigh Bardugo, the shadow and bone trilogy ·
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‘A million girls would kill for this job’

The World's Worst Assistant (2022) by Sona Movsesian

November 14, 2022 by drmllz 1 Comment

CBR bingo square 'funky', because...Sona Movsesian seems like a funky and groovy person, and Conan O'Brien used to do a funky little 'string dance' with his hips, and Max Weinberg and the Max Weinberg 7 were pretty funky back in the day, and Sona Movsesian is Conan O'Brien's assistant. If I haven't … [Read more]

drmllz's CBR14 Review No:11 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor, Non-Fiction · Tags: cbr14bingo, Conan, drmllz, sona movsesian ·
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