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; … [Read more]
Living in the Present with John Prine by Tom Piazza
Very few celebrity deaths have effected me as much as that of John Prine, who passed away after contracting Covid-19 early on in the pandemic. Prine is one of the greatest songwriters America has produced, and his catalogue is full of wryly funny, semi-tragic, sideways looks at life that endeared … [Read more]
Love You, Mean It by Jilly Gagnon
CBR18 Bingo: Middle - This is a three star book which induced nothing stronger than middle-of-the-road feelings in me. After giving up her dreams to be a costume designer, Ellie is in danger of losing her family deli business when a major competitor is expected to come to town. But due to a … [Read more]
A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes
CBR18 Bingo: Summer - The book is set in the heat of Jamaica and the Caribbean Sea, where there is an endless summer. After a hurricane wrecks their home, the Bas-Thornton children and their neighbors, the Fernandez children, are sent off on a ship to England. When they are intercepted by … [Read more]
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches: A Novel by Sangu Mandanna
Cbr18bingo Refuge. The main characters hide away in a mansion, away from prying eyes The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches is a novel about misfits and found family. While witches, witchcraft, and persecution are at the center of the story, several other characters have also found … [Read more]
Boxed In by Sarah Lynne Reul
If you are an artist in any way (poetry, painting, sculpture, etc) you probably have had some form of “artist anxiety” (or what I call it). What Sarah Lynne Reul calls it in Boxed In (which honestly is a bit better). Our story follows a young girl who does not want to use her new paint set because … [Read more]
The Discovery of K-pop: The Asian Hall of Fame by Oliver Chin, Juan Calle and Phil Amara
If loving K-Pop music is wrong, I know a lot of people who are very openly wrong. I mean, I know of a woman who is a grandmother of an early teen, who is a BTS fan. I mean fan girl fan level. But hey, I was a New Kids on the Block Fan so who am I to judge? We all have our boy band(s) to love … [Read more]
