#CBR10Bingo: AlabamaPink
Sally Jay Gorce is a young woman of independent means, thanks to the benevolence of a rich uncle. He’s given her enough money to live comfortably abroad for two whole years, no strings attached, as long as she comes back and tells him about her adventures at the end of the two years. Not needing to hold down a job or really do anything at all for the money, means Sally Jay spends her time flitting about Paris, taking a lover, drinking and partying. When her older diplomat lover starts getting a bit too demanding, she convinces herself that she’s in love with an acquaintance from back home, who directs plays.
The Cannonball Read is founded in memory of AlabamaPink, who back in 2008 was going to compete with her friend Prisco to be the first to read and review 100 books in a year. Sadly, struck down by cancer, AlabamaPink only managed to review eleven books before she died. One of the books is the upcoming November book club selection for the CBR book club, giving participants in the CBR10Bingo a selection of ten other books to read and review for this square. I have purposefully not looked at her review of the book, but picked this as it didn’t seem too long and seemed fairly critically acclaimed.
Full review on my blog.
Bingo #1. (AlabamaPink: this, Cover Art: A Duke by Default, Dream Vacation: Heroine’s Journey, Listicles: A Million Junes, This is the End: Magic Triumphs)
I appear to have very different taste in books than AlabamaPink did as well. I had a really hard time picking which book of hers to read for Bingo. I’m going with Chelsea Handler, because while I don’t really like her comedy, I probably at least won’t be bored by it.
Hope you have better luck with that than I did with this. To be fair, after The Dud Avocado, the Craig Ferguson book (which I voted for, not having any idea it would be so weird and full of unnecessary sex) was easier to get though, because at least I got a bit curious to see where in the world things were going. With this, I just didn’t care.