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A new chapter for a brilliant piece of crime journalism

I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara

November 30, 2018 by KimMiE" Leave a Comment

CBR 10 Bingo: So Shiny! Bingo #3! On April 24, 2018, Joseph James DeAngelo was arrested and charged with eight counts of first-degree murder by the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department. Santa Barbara County would soon follow with four additional murder charges. The man widely known as the Golden State Killer, thought to be responsible for at least 13 murders and over 50 rapes spanning the 1970s and 80s, had finally been caught. No doubt the families of the victims felt some degree of comfort and […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: #CBR10, #SoShiny!, cbr10bingo, crime, KimMiE", Michelle McNamara, serial killer, true crime

KimMiE"'s CBR10 Review No:29 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: #CBR10, #SoShiny!, cbr10bingo, crime, KimMiE", Michelle McNamara, serial killer, true crime ·
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Our culture might be in jeopardy and I still had to make the damn pun

Planet Funny by Ken Jennings

October 8, 2018 by octothorp 1 Comment

Bingo entry 4 – my “so shiny” book is appropriately from Ken Jennings, because he’s now in the “I’ll buy a book about ladders if they wrote it” category for me.  After having read Because I Said So, Maphead, and my favorite, Brainiac – a book about his Jeopardy experience and the popularity of trivia that includes actual trivia questions.  Be still my heart – I’ll read anything he writes, much less something as attuned to my own interests as a book about how humor […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #SoShiny!, cbr10bingo, humor, Jeopardy, Ken Jennings

octothorp's CBR10 Review No:43 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Non-Fiction · Tags: #SoShiny!, cbr10bingo, humor, Jeopardy, Ken Jennings ·
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“We still think just because it could be worse, that’s enough.”

Sweet Fruit, Sour Land by Rebecca Ley

October 3, 2018 by tillie Leave a Comment

Sweet fruit, sour land is a dystopian tale of two friends as they meet at lavish parties in London. Both of them are poor, living on food rations and have only been invited due to their skills; Jaminder plays the piano and Mathilde is a skilled seamstress. Both of them are strangers as immigrants to England, but also to this high society. At these parties they are exposed not just to unfamiliar foods and lifestyles, but to a much more sinister realization that the rich […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: #CBR10, #SoShiny!, books by women, cbr10bingo, dystopia, Fiction, Mathildehoeg, rebecca ley, sweet fruit sour land

tillie's CBR10 Review No:34 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #CBR10, #SoShiny!, books by women, cbr10bingo, dystopia, Fiction, Mathildehoeg, rebecca ley, sweet fruit sour land ·
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If they make a movie of this one, I hope it also has Tim Daly in it.

My Ex-Life by Stephen McCauley

September 11, 2018 by scootsa1000 4 Comments

Way back in the olden days (the 1990s, gasp!) there was a little book called The Object of My Affection about a kind of fat and lonely girl who falls in love with her gay best friend while she’s pregnant and they decide to raise the baby together, and then life gets in the way, etc. Everybody read it, I think it was mandatory book club fodder at the time, even though I’m not sure anyone really loved it, or really even liked it. They […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: #CBR10, #SoShiny!, cbr10bingo, jennifer aniston, my ex-life, paul rudd, Scootsa1000, Stephen McCauley, the object of my affection, tim daly

scootsa1000's CBR10 Review No:34 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #CBR10, #SoShiny!, cbr10bingo, jennifer aniston, my ex-life, paul rudd, Scootsa1000, Stephen McCauley, the object of my affection, tim daly ·
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“The Power of Words […] They Hooked into Invididuals and Wormed Through Generations.”

The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin

August 17, 2018 by Lisa Bee 1 Comment

I am but one of a number of Cannonballers who have read The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin so far this year! And for the most part I enjoyed it, as I know some others did. Though I think the front half really got me more so than the latter half, which is not to say that things don’t all come together and create a beautiful story, but I think it really boils down to feeling more of a connection with some of the characters whose […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: #SoShiny!, cbr10bingo, Chloe Benjamin

Lisa Bee's CBR10 Review No:42 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #SoShiny!, cbr10bingo, Chloe Benjamin ·
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