Bingo Square: Cannonballer Says! I saw lumenatrix’s review of this one, and was immediately intrigued. Jewish pirates during the Spanish Inquisition and Columbus? A five-hundred-year old parrot narrator? A gorgeous cover? Yes, please! Or to quote the narrator, a story about, “Pirates. Parrots. Jews. Jewels. The Inquisition. Gefilte fish. Gold. A Girl.” While I quite enjoyed this one, I also feel like I approached it in the wrong way. I was so excited about the whole Jewish pirate thing that I may have raced through […]
I watched a lot more TV than usual last week because I didn’t care to read this …
Bingo Square: Alabama Pink I have to say I struggled with selecting a novel for this square. There were a few novels, like The Shack that caused an immediate “absolutely not” reaction, but nothing stood out as, “I really want to read that now.” I probably should have gone with Enchanted but I have never seen a single Audrey Hepburn movie even though I am aware of all the iconic images and pictures of her. I’m sure if we had a list of Alabama Pink’s […]
Both Perfect and Not Enough …
Bingo Square: Underrepresented This trilogy seemed to be very popular around the time I started getting into YA and dystopian novels but despite the positive reviews, I never got around to it. I think I was worried about overdoing it and burning myself out but I always meant to get around to the trilogy. It’s just other, newer books kept coming up. I finally downloaded it this year, but was trying to push myself to work through earlier downloads, so I still hadn’t started it […]
Age, Gender and Culture in one London Community
Bingo Square: Dream Vacation I honestly am not sure what I was expecting from this one but between Reese Witherspoon and positive Cannonball reviews, I knew I wanted to read it. It had a darker underside than I realized while also focusing on all the themes I was expecting from the story, such as relationships, gender, cultural and generational divides, and different approaches to life as an immigrant. Nikki is the youngest daughter in an English Punjabi family. Already being English speakers when they emigrated, […]