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) … [Read more]
In Your Court: Serve or Receive? by Kit Haley
CBR18 Bingo: Season - Tennis court seasons (hard court, clay, grass, etc...) Miles Callahan and Matteo Russo are rivals. Miles is ranked number four in the world and is America’s next big tennis hope. Matteo, an Australian former teenage tennis phenom, is unranked and is fighting his way back … [Read more]
Whack Job: A History of Axe Murder by Rachel McCarthy James
CBR18 Bingo: Repair - The axe is a tool used to fix a lot of things - houses, sheds, ships. In this book, it can provide a murderous solution to people's problems too. The phrase 'axe murder' conjures images of a brutal, gruesome, and somewhat old-fashioned crime. The history of the axe murder … [Read more]
Heartstopper: Volume 6 by Alice Oseman
CBR Bingo: Middle, because I'm taking the ending of this book to be the start of the middle of Nick and Charlie's story--six volumes, and now it's the end of the beginning Kudos to Alice Oseman for landing this tricky plane--a six volume graphic novel about a teenage love story, which by its very … [Read more]
Everything was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt by Ben Reeves
CBR Bingo: And, because I think the use of the "and" in the title of this book is particularly punchy--melodically to the ear, stylistically, as a plot point Well, might as well keep at it reviewing the more morose books in my back catalogue (having just finished Giovanni's Room. This is a … [Read more]
She's A Doll by Barbara Truelove
CBR18 Bingo: Friends - The emotional center of this story is the friendship between Lucy and Nicola. After Lucy is murdered by her best friend's brother, she does not go gently into that good night but instead possess a porcelain doll and decides that she must kill Kyle. But a doll body is weak, … [Read more]
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
CBR Bingo: Wheel, mainly for the cyclic nature of David's relationship with Giovanni (and Hella) post- the idyllic room bit, where he goes around and around about what he wants A short, bittersweet plot about David, an Américain in Paris in the late 50s/early 60s (I think) who is nominally … [Read more]
