Earlier this year we voted on which Classic with many retellings to use for our second and third Book Clubs of 2019. Arthur Conan Doyle’s A Study in Scarlet won and now you, dear Cannonballers, are able to choose any updated version of the Sherlock story to discuss with us in two short weeks. It can be a straight modernization, or a graphic novel, possibly even a gender-swapped version set in space, or a work of non-fiction. Whatever your choice, we’ll be back here discussing them on September 20-21. So, count this as your official reminder to get reading or […]
My unpopular take on a classic
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
cbr11bingo Classic When I was about 10, I tried to read Little Women but found it so boring and such a slog that I gave up. Fast-forward several decades and I hate to say it, but I still kind of feel the same way. The “coming of age” story about the March sisters Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy has important things to say about family, poverty and faith, as well as about the way young ladies ought to behave and what they should strive for. It was a hit from the moment it was published and has remained so ever […]
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9/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:50 | 
| Tags: cbr11, cbr11bingo, ElCicco, Fiction, Little Women, louisa may alcott, Young Adult | Category: Children's, Fiction | 0 Comments
On Antarctica No One Can Hear You Scream
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
This is what I mean by poor planning. If I had known I was going to read Endurance I would have chosen it for “Far And Away” and moved The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind to “Own Voices” and gotten a damn Bingo by now but alas, I did not think ahead. Endurance is the story of Earnest Shackelton’s ill-fated 1914 expedition to Antarctica told through journal entries and the survivor’s recollections in the following years. I was recently reading a Cracked article about things you don’t realize where happening at the same time- things like McDonald’s opening within a few days of Auschwitz and […]
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9/15/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:90 | | Tags: Alfred Lansing, Endurance, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage | Category: Biography/Memoir, History, Non-Fiction | 0 Comments
What are- books you should NOT read while pregnant…
Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty
Do Not Become Alarmed by Maile Meloy
CBR11 Listicles: Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty Goodreads Top 20 Books of 2016 I am doing a terrible job planning my Bingo scorecard. I had a much clearer plan of attack last year but am mostly playing it by ear this year. Luckily I was able to stumble into a square with a reread of Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty since it appeared on Goodreads Top. After reading Nine Perfect Strangers and being… underwhelmed… I decided to read something else by Liane Moriarty and decided on Truly Madly Guilty because it gets less play than Big Little Lies. Something happened at the last minute barbecue Vid […]
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Fiona Davis Reviews
The Dollhouse by Fiona Davis
The Address by Fiona Davis
The Masterpiece by Fiona Davis
Fiona Davis employs a similar writing style to early Jojo Moyes novels: two interconnected stories with strong female protagonists told decades apart. Unlike Moyes Davis also weaves in real historical landmarks, fictionalized versions of real people as well as characters who are based on real people. The Dollhouse The Dollhouse is the story of recently dumped journalist, Rose Lewin in the present day investigating the past lives of the women who lived in the famed Barbizon Hotel. Rose becomes instantly drawn into the story of Darby McLaughlin, a reclusive woman with a scar on her face who lived in the hotel […]
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#NotAllMen, Historical Romance Edition
Once A Spy by Mary Jo Putney
I have to stop doing this to myself. I have got to stop picking up Mary Jo Putney books. When I first started reading romance openly, I loved Mary Jo Putney because her characters had conversations with each other and talked about mental health issues in historical romance. I have changed and grown in the last 20 – 25 years and Mary Jo Putney’s books have not. If you are looking for the comfort of a familiar Putney narrative – Once A Spy delivers. If you are looking for anything else, you should probably not read this. I received this […]
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9/15/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:65 | | Tags: Mary Jo Putney, NetGalley, Once A Spy, Rogues Redeemed series | Category: Romance | 0 Comments
“This is a war story. It was not meant to be. It started as a love story, the story of a marriage.”
The Story of a Marriage by Andrew Sean Greer
CBR11bingo: Rainbow Flag Bingo! Diagonally: Remix, The Collection, Own Voices, Rainbow Flag, Summer Read I decided to read something by Andrew Sean Greer for the Rainbow Flag square on the strength of his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Less, which I read and loved last year. The Story of a Marriage is a very different novel, at least in tone. Where Less is sly and sharp and very funny, The Story of a Marriage is just a bit too earnest for its own good. The Story of a Marriage takes place in 1953 and focuses on Pearlie Cook, a black housewife in […]
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9/15/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:41 | | Tags: Andrew Sean Greer, cbr11bingo, KimMiE", love story, Rainbow Flag, war story | Category: Fiction | 0 Comments
“The truth can cause a lot of trouble for those who are not supposed to know it.”
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
Bingo square: History/Schmistory (as in alternate history, given that – as with The Handmaid’s Tale – the book ends with historical notes from a symposium about Gilead in the year 2197). Set more than 15 years after the events of The Handmaid’s Tale, The Testaments is told by three different narrators. There is the familiar Aunt Lydia who we saw through Offred’s eyes in the previous book; a young girl named Daisy living in Canada and unaware of her ties to Gilead; and Agnes, one of the first generation to grow up under this regime. Each are giving their own […]
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9/15/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:41 |
When my brain is about to melt, I pick up YA
Alex, Approximately by Jenn Bennett
Two Can Keep A Secret by Karen McManus
CBR11Bingo Travel- both books involve moving across the country **Alex, Approximately This is the first book I’ve read by this author. I see a lot of authors that I follow on Twitter shouting her out, so I thought I would try her new book, The Lady Rogue. No luck- the bookstore was sold out. Instead, I picked up an alternate title and ended up with Alex, Approximately. It is a cute book and had some great aspects, but also some things that I found really grating. Bailey has just moved from the East coast to the West coast to […]
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9/14/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:55 | | Tags: cbr11 bingo, Jenn Bennett, karen mcmanus, mystery, travel, Young Adult | Category: Mystery, Young Adult | 0 Comments