Time – Cannonball Read 15

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“You put dinosaurs and people together, you always get screaming.” (Bingo)

Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor

November 8, 2022 by Malin 1 Comment

CBR14 Bingo: Time (the whole book is about time travel to different points in Earth’s history) Dr. Madeleine “Max” Maxwell is recruited by the seemingly rather mundane St. Mary’s Institute of History, only to discover that they are actually a secret organisation that time travels to various points in history, for research purposes. Obviously, you can’t just throw anyone into a time machine and have at it, so there’s a lot of training. Then there’s the fact that time travel is rather dangerous, and she […]

Give This The Miniseries Treatment!

A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark

August 30, 2022 by LittlePlat 1 Comment

I was pretty excited to finally pick up and find the time to read A Master of Djinn. I had previously been delighted by P. Djèlí Clark’s alternative, magical steampunk 1910s Cairo. The setting is just so damned fun. The novellas I had read before Master of Djinn—The Haunting of Tram Car 015 and A Dead Djinn in Cairo— were masterful in how they managed to be so descriptive for short form works, so was I curious as to how he would adapt an entire novel into this […]

Race/Horse

Horse: A Novel by Geraldine Brooks

August 24, 2022 by ElCicco Leave a Comment

Cbr14bingo Time, Bingo #2 (down) This novel is set in three distinct time periods linked by a Civil War era thoroughbred named Lexington As far as I’m concerned Geraldine Brooks is one of the best historical fiction writers out there. I have read all of her novels. March won the Pulitzer Prize. Caleb’s Crossing, People of the Book, and Year of Wonder: A Novel of the Plague were all outstanding. I felt that The Secret Chord, her previous novel, was not quite up to snuff, […]

In search of found time: a short introduction to Proust

How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton

August 14, 2022 by Wanderlustful Leave a Comment

How Proust Can Change Your Life is Alain de Botton’s often tongue-in-cheek ‘lifestyle guide’ based on lessons from the life of canonical author Marcel Proust, the author of In Search of Lost Time. Although Proust is a canonical author, I have not yet had the pleasure of reading him, nor was I very familiar with his life and background. De Bouton’s guide is interesting- and somewhat heartening- in illustrating how this great author had an inglorious start, wasn’t very good at getting or keeping a […]

“Finding the ocean was as simple a matter as letting a river lead you in the direction it wanted to go most.”

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers

August 13, 2022 by faintingviolet 2 Comments

This one didn’t make me cry nearly as much as its predecessor, Psalm for the Wild-Built, but that shouldn’t make you think that it didn’t have an emotional impact, it did make me tear up on more than one occasion. Because this novella is a meditation on what we call the human condition. It is also a look at how we can live if society puts happiness and contentment first. If we don’t compete but instead cooperate. But its also the kind of novella that […]

Poetry Books

How to Read a Poem by Terry Eagleton

Lords of Limit by Geoffrey Hill

The Sounds of Poetry: A Brief Guide by Robert Pinsky

The Trouble with Poetry by Billy Collins

Selected Poems of WB Yeats by WB Yeats

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

New Hampshire by Robert Frost

Emily Dickinson by Poems and Letters

Gilgamesh by Ed. Stephen Mitchell

Leaves of Grass 1855 by Walt Whitman

August 3, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

CBR14Bingo – Mind – This book addresses the “heart” elements of poetry with a literary critical mind approach. How to Read a Poem – 5/5 Stars This is a book that I really enjoyed but even Terry Eagleton admits that it’s not much help to anyone who hasn’t read a decent amount of literary criticism, especially for the first half of the book. It’s rare for an author to suggest that maybe for some readers, starting at chapter 5 (out of 7) would yield the […]

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