CBR 10 BINGO Square: Dream Vacation (I want to go to at least half of these places. I love exploring.) (Note: I was going to go for blackout BINGO but it looks like I’ll probably be four books short. Mostly because I have no books I want to read that fit those categories, and I just want to read books I want to read. With this one, I believe it brings me up to four BINGOs.) Best for: People who enjoy books on world curiosities […]
Half is Outdated, Half is Very Good
CBR 10 BINGO Square: Cannonballer Says Junebug. Check out their review here. Best for: People still looking for answers to how we got here (i.e. got Trump) and some thoughts on ways to move forward. In a nutshell: Trump’s election shouldn’t have been a surprise, and it doesn’t need to be the end of the world. Worth quoting: “If the goal is to move from a society based on endless taking and depletion to one based on caretaking and renewal, then all of our relationships […]
Families Are Complicated
CBR 10 BINGO Square: Listicles: So many, but I’ll go with the Seattle Times Fall Reading List 2018 (the author was born there, I lived there for 10 of the last 20 years). Best for: Anyone interested in a beautifully written memoir that explores adoption, transracial adoption, race, and family. In a nutshell: Author Nicole Chung was born to Korean parents in the US and adopted by a white couple. In this book, she explores what it meant to be one of the only Asian […]
Damn, That Was Good
CBR 10 BINGO Square: Farenheit 451 (As recently as 2000-2009 it was in the top 100 of banned books, which is so ironic it could have replaced all the verses in Alanis Morisette’s hit.) Best for: Everyone. All of us should read it. In a nutshell: In the future, firemen don’t put out fires – they set them. Specifically, they set books on fire. Worth quoting: “You weren’t hurting anyone, you were hurting only things! And since things really couldn’t be hurt, sine things felt […]