Welcome to the Week 3 CBR 14 Bingo Check-in! You can see the card and the rules on the kick-off post. This week’s mood: Roy Kent. For the first time in 2 1/2 years I actually watched some tv. I binged a bunch of episodes of Ted Lasso (accidentally starting with the end of season 2). And … [Read more]
“This is the strange lesson of living in a pandemic: life can be tranquil in the face of death.”
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
Cannonball Read Book Square: Funky In one word: Tether Reading St. John Mandel I'm reminded of the scene in the AMAZING movie Booksmart, wherein two college-bound BFFs are determined to make up for lost time and live it up the night before their high school graduation. In one of my favorite … [Read more]
's CBR14 Review No:34 ·
Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction ·
Tags: cbr14bingo, Emily St. John Mandel, pandemic, Sea of Tranquility, time travel ·
“The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.”
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Cannonball Read Bingo Square: Minds I have owned a copy of The Giver for quite a while and it has sat collecting dust on our bookshelf reserved for the classics. My kiddo, on a whim, picked it up and when my 13-year-old picks up something that is a classic, I generally take that as an opportunity … [Read more]
's CBR14 Review No:29 ·
Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction ·
Tags: cbr14bingo, classic, dystopia, Lois Lowry, Newberry Medal winner, The Giver, Young Adult ·
The Passion
The Passion by Jeanette Winterson
This was the first Jeanette Winterson I read, and I remember reading it nonstop at work in college. I really did enjoy it, but I am now thinking that it was given to me by someone I had a crush on also had a big effect. It's a truly wondrous book in so many ways, especially because it's wildly … [Read more]
O’Neill-o-rama
Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill
Mourning Becomes Electra by Eugene O'Neill
Desire Under the Elms by Eugene O'Neill
The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O'Neill
Long Day's Journey into Night - 5/5 O'Neill wrote this play about 15 years before he died in 1953. It wasn't published and produced until after he died, and it's considered by many to be his masterpiece. That rings more or less true mostly because of the close ties to his own experiences, and … [Read more]
thrillers are bit of a hit or miss for me, this was sort of…neither?
They Never Learn by Layne Fargo
This is not a case of false advertising--I went into this book fully amped up to read about a female serial killer who makes a career out of offing terrible men whose crimes fall outside the purview of the judicial system. Zero issues there, honestly! But what I couldn't get into was the tone of the … [Read more]
