Cannonball Read 18

Quick breezy thriller

The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave

September 5, 2022 by Wanderlustful Leave a Comment

Hannah is a newly married thirty-something year old, still smitten with her husband Owen, and largely loving their life in the Sam Francisco Bay Area. They live on a houseboat in Sausalito and she spends her days making hand turned custom wooden furniture while Owen works for an up and coming tech … [Read more]

Wanderlustful's CBR14 Review No:9 · Genres: Suspense · Tags: cbr14bingo, Laura Dave, scandal, The Last Thing He Told Me, thriller ·

Soldier’s Pay

Soldier's Pay by William Faulkner

September 5, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

William Faulkner wrote I think four novels that took place outside of his fictional Yoknapatawpha County. Others take place in other places but explicitly refer back to the county as well. This is one of those novels. It's also his first novel, and it's also one of his few works that takes on the … [Read more]

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:511 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: william faulkner ·

Hamlet

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

September 5, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

I am teaching Hamlet again this year, and so I reread it this weekend to remember it before I read it a few more time to build the unit for the students. Later I will let the students review it too. Rereading it it's hard not to remember how funny, weird, and brilliant Hamlet is, how frustrating … [Read more]

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:510 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: william shakespeare ·

Devil House

Devil House by John Darnielle

September 5, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

If you thought this was a horror novel going forward, so be it, but don't write an angry review about it. Admit your mistake and move on. That's my advice to the Goodreads readers who are SO MAD that this was different than they imagined. And partly this is unfortunate because I think this is a very … [Read more]

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:509 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: John Darnielle ·

Four Hundred Souls A Community History of African America, 1619-2019

Four Hundred Souls A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 by Ibram X Kendi, editor; Keisha Blain, editor

September 5, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This book is a solid companion piece to The 1619 Project, even though they are not expressly connected. I mentioned in a review for that book that it's clearly positioned as part of a conversation, not the conversation itself. The structure of the book is to take big thematic historical essays about … [Read more]

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:508 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: Ibram X Kendi, editor; Keisha Blain, editor ·

Insightful and hilarious

Cult Classic by Sloane Crosley

September 5, 2022 by booktrovert Leave a Comment

CBR Bingo - Minds, as this was a comedic thriller full of mind games (and a possible cult). If you're looking for something incredibly fun and intensely readable, look no further. I loved this brief ride of a book. I don't know how I've managed to avoid Crosley's writing until this … [Read more]

Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr14bingo, Sloane Crosley ·

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on Imagination is real
I have this on my bookshelf and am looking forward to it.
Tracy
on Not my “best of” but YMMV.
I just read Palaver by Bryan Washington and really resonated with this line from your review: "To be honest, I...
Nancy Funk
on Boogie fever, I think it’s going around
What a wonderful and delightful book. My granddaughter is a dancer. I read this book at the library and was...
G.D. Giant
on When You Hate the Protagonist (But Enjoy the Book)
Will do!
RouletteGirl
on When You Hate the Protagonist (But Enjoy the Book)
Once you finish it, let me know what you think!

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