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And a road trip to finish the Bingo Board!

The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise by Dan Gemeinhart

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CBR11Bingo – Travel! Coyote Sunrise and her father Rodeo live an unconventional lifestyle. Tried and true hippies, they drive round the country as the wind takes them on a repurposed school bus which acts as both home and transport. Sometimes they drive toward their favorite sandwich shop in the Bayou, or maybe they’re assisting a fellow traveler they found stranded. It’s been this way for five years – because five years ago, Coyote’s mother and sisters were killed in a car accident. And leaving home and never turning back is the only way her father could cope. Coyote still checks […]

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10/21/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:68 |

A Contemporary Marriage of Convenience Romance

Xeni: A Marriage of Inconvenience (Loose Ends Book 2) by Rebekah Weatherspoon

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Xeni is grieving the death of her Aunt Sable. At her aunt’s request, she has traveled from her home in Los Angeles to upstate New York to scatter her aunt’s ashes, clear out her house and attend the reading of the will. At the scattering of the ashes ceremony, a large Scotsman in a kilt shows up to play bagpipes. At the reading of the will, the same Scotsman shows up (sans bagpipes). Her aunt drops three bombs on Xeni, one I won’t share because it’s a spoiler, and two are in the back of book blurb. In order to […]

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10/19/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:74 |

The other side of the camera

Black Movie by Danez Smith

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All I really can say is that, Black Movie by Danez Smith is not an easy read. Which really is an understatement. It needs to be read slowly and without distractions. And a reread could be helpful. This book, no matter how much you like poetry, will not be for everyone. You might empathize but you probably will not be able to relate to many subjects presented. Again; this is not an easy read. The format of the poems can be awkward. There is literally repetition of lines making it all blur together, basically making nonsense. Yet, that is the […]

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10/10/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:420 |

Nature, love, loss, magnolia flowers and friendships

Pilu of the Woods by Mai K. Nguyen

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**possible spoilers** I read Pilu of the Woods by accident. I was looking at graphic novels and meant to just look at it, but it got into my purchase pile. And even though it was a surprise find, I strongly recommend Mai K. Nguyen and their graphic novel about loss, family, grief and coming to terms with it all. In fact, so much so that I am planning on donating my copy to my library in honor of a friends first grand-baby. (Which I know might be odd, but somehow the theme of life and loss “clicked” for me.) But […]

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8/27/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:338 |

Emotional ride

Autopsy by Donte Collins

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#cbr11bingo #rainbowflag Autopsy is one of those poetry books that could be extremely controversial. Not only are the subject matters not easy to deal with (race, class, death, adoption, sexuality), these subjects are not easy to read. The other part of this is, if for some reason you are not 1000 percent “on board,” it could cause accusations of racism and bigotry. Therefore, this is not the first book to start with when you are starting out with a book of poetry. Therefore, this book will not be an easy discussion book for your reading group. Therefore, be ready to […]

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8/26/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:333 |

Oh Margaret. You can do so many things, but rapping is not one of them. (CBR 11 Bingo: Remix)

Hag-Seed: William Shakespeare's The Tempest Retold by Margaret Atwood

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I love a good Shakespearean remix. I devour everything Margaret Atwood has to offer. I was delighted to come across Hag-Seed, as I am still haunted by her addition to the Canongate Myth Series (Penelopiad) 14 years after reading. Atwood sets her storm in the “summer-stock” theater world of world of far flung Canada. Our Prospero is a wrongfully toppled director of a prestigious theater; toppled by schemes, toppled by loss, and toppled by grief. His island takes the form of a prison, where he rises once again as the lord of all he sees by teaching inmates literacy through Shakespeare. They’ve […]

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8/17/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:10 |

“Every Love Story is a Ghost Story”

Words in Deep Blue by Cath Crowley

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Bingo Square: Cannonballer Says Caitlin_D posted her review of Words in Deep Blue a few days before I got on the Cannonball Read site in late June for some book inspiration.  I hadn’t exactly been paying much attention to new releases, so I quickly ended up discovering that some previously enjoyed authors had new novels out which were promptly added to the cart.  Between the review, the title and the cover, something about this novel appealed to me, so it too made the cut (I can’t say I was super discerning since my order page shows that I bought about […]

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8/1/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:18 |

Two heads are better than one, unless you are a PushMe-PullYou

My Father’s Words by Patricia MacLachlan

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#cbr11bingo #TwoHeadsareBetterThanOne My Father’s Words by Patricia MacLachlan is a modern story with the classic elements of loss, family, friendships and growth. While some areas are based on the authors own life, this is a fictious story about a young girl, Fiona, and her family dealing with the loss of her father. Told in Fiona’s voice, we see the past mixed in with the current grief the characters all share. But a grief all must process differently. Like many of MacLachlan’s stories, this is a sweet story. It deals with loss and healing but does in in a gentle manner. MacLachlan writes […]

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7/23/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:281 |


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