Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

Mississippi Burning

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor

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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry won the Newbery Award in 1974, the fact that it’s still a very topical book about racism makes me want to scream in frustration. The Newbery Honor books that year were Abel’s Island by William Steig, which I didn’t think I’d ever read until I read the description and guys, I LOVED THIS ONE I’m totally re-reading it at some point; and A String in the Harp by Nancy Bond, which I think I read and liked but don’t recall much of. I read Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry when I was in […]

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9/20/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:78 |

A Nazi is a Nazi is a Nazi

The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

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I absolutely hate reading books about war because they upset me so much. I usually end up angry and crying.  Or angry and with a headache because I’m trying not to cry.  Basically, it all just upsets the crap out of me and I don’t like it. The Nightingale, by Kristin Hannah, is no exception. I didn’t think it would be and although it was on my To-Read list, I probably wouldn’t have gotten around to reading it if it wasn’t selected by my book club. But, it was, and I had to read it and I ended up angry […]

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9/20/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:28 |

Sad Babies Ruined It for Me

Frog Music by Emma Donaghue

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Emma Donaghue’s Frog Music should have been a slam dunk for me. It’s a period piece murder mystery with a European element. I regret to say that it fell a little short of the mark for me. I think most people would enjoy the novel, however, so this won’t be an entirely negative review. Frog Music tells the story of the murder of Jenny Bonnet, a cross-dressing, walking, talking Mark Twain character in 19th century San Francisco, and the efforts of her friend Blanche Beunon, a professional dancer and companion, to discover the culprit and bring them to justice. This […]

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9/20/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:22 |

Marlowe Sassily Fights Crime in Nighttime LA Again

The High Window by Raymond Chandler

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If you look through my previous Raymond Chandler reviews, you’ll see that I’m a massive fan of Chandler and his famous Los Angeles private eye, Philip Marlowe. The setting, the sassy dialogue, the day drinking at work – it’s all awesome. Unfortunately, while it is still enjoyable, this third book in the Marlowe series is the least-memorable of the series.  In this story, Marlowe is hired by a cantankerous battle-axe of a wealthy old matriarch to find a missing rare coin. She’s the perfect client for Marlowe – lots of mouth and fire backed by cunning. Neither Marlowe nor the […]

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9/20/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:45 |

My favorite part of year

A Kind of Freedom; Sing, Unburied, Sing by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton; Jesmyn Ward

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So screw the Pulitzer Prizes because they don’t release the nominees until the winner is announced, but August/September/October is my favorite part of the year because the Booker Prize and National Book Award release their longlists and we get a new Nobel Prize winner. So I haven’t liked the change toward American books on the Booker Prize because I like to expand what books I am watching, but so it goes. Of the ten books on the National Book Longlist, I have already reviewed two of them: Pachinko by Min Jin Lee, which I pretty much think is the best […]

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9/20/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:377 |

Climate Change, in Spaaaaaace!

The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi, narrated by Wil Wheaton

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Humans have migrated into space and lost contact with Earth. They live now in an Empire they call The Interdependancy. There is no faster than light travel, the laws of physics forbid it. There is the Flow. The Flow isn’t well understood, but it has pathways, and those paths allow ships to travel between planets in months rather than years or centuries. The Empire is called The Interdependency because it is deliberately designed so that each colony depends on the others to survive. Each colony relies on the Flow to connect them and the Flow is about to shift. The […]

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9/20/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:94 |

The best dystopias always seem plausible

The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi

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Man did I enjoy this more than I expected to. It was an impulse buy – thanks Barnes and Noble for the “buy two get the third free” deals that always get me to buy books I might not otherwise … damn your siren song! – and it just seemed like the kind of book that could easily be dry and bloodless.  I’ve read too many dystopias that veer into freshman philosophy territory, derailed by how terrible everything is and how humanity is doomed to be realistic. I like darkness in a narrative, but the world isn’t that bleak all […]

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9/20/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:35 |

Slight but Engaging

The Beginner's Goodbye by Anne Tyler

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The other day my mom texted me and asked, “Which Anne Tyler novel is the one about the strange family?” Easy, Mom–literally all of them. Tyler’s specialty is lovable eccentrics. In The Beginner’s Goodbye, Aaron Woolcott joins that list, although he’s not as memorable as some others. Aaron works for a publishing firm owned by his family, and is married to a doctor, Dorothy. After they’ve been married about 8 years, Dorothy is killed by a tree falling through the roof into their sunroom. Shortly after, she begins to appear to him in various places. Tyler’s books are always grounded […]

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9/19/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:39 |

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