Hope you are enjoying this year’s Cannonball Read Book Bingo Reading Challenge. You can get complete information here. I am back with assistance for finding books to meet the bingo circle “Wheels”. Wheels – leaving; traveling; transportation; immigration; vacation; assistive mobility devices; road trip; infrastructure; robots; a car on the cover. Let’s dig deeper into road trip. I love a good road trip book. People jammed into a car on a mission to get somewhere. There can be conflict among passengers, vehicle breakdowns, small towns, […]
CBR Diversion – Bingo – “Craft”
Hope you are enjoying this year’s Cannonball Read Book Bingo Reading Challenge. You can get complete information here. I am back with assistance for finding books to meet the bingo circle “Craft”. Craft – boats; knitting; a character makes something; this book is a good example (or bad example) of the craft of writing. I decided it would be the most fun to explore this one from several unusual angles ranging from witchcraft to spacecraft to baking. Hope something on this list inspires you! Here […]
“I want – I want – I want – was all that she could think about – but just what this real want was she did not know.”
Carson McCullers: A Life by Mary V. Dearborn
CBR16 Bingo: Pride – McCullers and many people in her life were queer, one of the main struggles of her life was trying to come to terms with and better understand that queer identity, which also infused her writing. Carson McCullers is one of the most acclaimed authors of the Southern Gothic genre, but she was also a complicated woman with a messy personal life who constantly strove toward goals that, though she did not reach always reach them, created beautiful things along the way. […]
More Ash Than Fire, But Still Warm
Ash by Malinda Lo
Bingo Update – This is for my Rainbow Flag square. Malinda Lo is out and proud. As an added bonus, this is also a queer retelling of Cinderella, so it’s a queer writer telling a queer story! I love a good fairy tale re-telling. Contemporary literature is rife with reimaginings, updates, and new spins on old tales told around the fire…but not all of them are good. I’m glad to say that Ash by Melinda Lo *is* good, but it doesn’t quite rise to the ranks […]