Check your numbers! Check your Badges! Thank you so much for playing the Book Bingo Reading Challenge this year. This one almost didn’t happen. It was only because of persistent kindness from MsWas, and lots of help from yesknopemaybe, teresaelectro, faintingviolet, andtheIToldYouSos, and Rachel W that it happened at all. Every bingo post, whether you posted one review or completed your card, felt like a victory. Ale – 9 reviews, 1 Bingo anana – 5 reviews andtheIToldYouSos – 10 reviews ardaigle – Blackout BlackRaven – Blackout booktrovert – Blackout […]
“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
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 know that reading makes one a better writer, I have largely skirted reading books specifically for and about writing because then I have to actually admit that I want to […]
“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
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 revisited tale, so much so that I’m re-reading this book that I read when I was 13 because my kid is now reading it at 13? Astounding. So to […]
“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
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 award (thanks Snappy!) for a free six-month Skillshare membership and came upon a course by Ashley C. Ford on writing titled “Creative Personal Writing: Write the Real You.” I loved her style […]
“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
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 the line of who knows how many people to get it into my eager hands. Once you pick up an Osman book, time is of the essence, in that you will want to […]
“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
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 duology, this trilogy didn’t do it for me. But I finished it. YAY! Or I should say we finished it, as I read the last half of this novel aloud to my teen. Unbeknownst to me, he still likes […]
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