Welcome to the Week 7 CBR 14 Bingo Check-in! You can see the card and the rules on the kick-off post. This week’s mood: Some books won! While censorship is far from defeated (check on your local school boards folks), a Virginia judge dismissed the obscenity case against Maia Kobabe's Gender … [Read more]
The power of story
Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett
I am going through a stressful time work wise and personal life, so have retreated to books i know i enjoy. I have certainly read this in the past, but it has probably been a decade. In recent years i have been more interested in other strands of the Discworld than the witches. This is the … [Read more]
's CBR14 Review No:6 ·
Genres: Fantasy, Fiction ·
Tags: Sir Terry Pratchett, Terry Pratchett, witches ·
“Like the Royal Society, but better, because we’re in it.”
The Rake Mistake: Heist Club 1 by Erica Ridley
The Rake Mistake is a novella set between books 1 and 2 of Erica Ridley's The Wild Wynchesters series. I haven't read either book, or anything else by Ridley, but she's been recommended frequently. And I am trash for heist plots. I thought I'd try this little bite and see what I thought. I liked … [Read more]
more Saint of Steel awesomeness :D
Paladin's Strength by T. Kingfisher
Despite having blurbed these books to very many people as I was reading them, I kept finding myself pleasantly surprised by how much I liked them! In this second installment of the Saint of Steel series, still set in the same world of the Rat, we follow another of the former-paladins of the Saint of … [Read more]
The 1619 Project
The 1619 Project by Editor: Nikole Hannah-Jones
Jones's opening essay from the original project is still part of this book, but the book begins instead with a new introduction to the collected book version. I was really excited to hear this new introduction because it addressed something I thought was missing from a lot of the discourse around … [Read more]
's CBR14 Review No:505 ·
Genres: History ·
Tags: CannonBookClub, Editor: Nikole Hannah-Jones, Nikole Hannah-Jones ·
Good times, bad times; you know I’ve had my share.
Led Zeppelin: The Biography by Bob Spitz
The Ringer's Ryen Russillo recently interviewed musician and journalist Bob Spitz' Led Zeppelin: The Biopgraphy. If Spitz' name sounds familiar, you may have read his biography on the The Beatles, Ronald Reagan, Julia Child, or Bob Dylan. The writer's credibility from past books as well as his … [Read more]
's CBR14 Review No:31 ·
Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction ·
Tags: Bob Spitz, classic rock, Led Zepellin, music ·