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#CannonBookClub Discussion Topics: Between the Bridge and the River

Between the Bridge and the River by Craig Ferguson

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Our final #CannonBookClub of 2018 is on November 2 and 3 is Between the Bridge and the River by Craig Ferguson as the second of our Anniversary Reads. This book has inspired a wide range of emotions and responses – everything from 1 star reviews to 5 star reviews and we are excited to see how all of your opinions come together in our big Discussion Post. It’s time to get thinking about what we’re going to talk about, and this book travels across time and space in a way that I wasn’t quite expecting so our areas of discussion […]

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10/19/2018 |

Eleanor Oliphant is completely f*cked up

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

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I first noticed Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman on NPR’s Best Books of 2017 list. I remembered the blurb said something about a quirky loner who begins to come out of her shell when she meets Raymond, the new IT guy at her work. It sounded like a fun, romantic story that I would enjoy. After waiting eons for the book to become available at the library, I was finally able to read it. And I was right, I very much enjoyed this novel. However, it was also much darker than I was expecting. Eleanor has some pretty tragic demons haunting her […]

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10/19/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:37 |

And yet I’m going to read the third one

China Rich Girlfriend by Kevin Kwan

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On the one hand I ate this book up. Started it and finished it in a single day. On the other hand, I very clearly know that this is not a well-written book. The events are eye-scortchingly INSANE and the plot is fast-paced but man is this going to be so much better as a movie. Yes, I still need to see the first one. But in my head this kind of conspicuous consumption works much better in a visual medium. One of my biggest problems with this book is our presumptive leading lady, Rachel Chu. So often in these […]

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10/19/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:120 |

Growing up in a brothel in New Orleans

Out of the Easy by Ruta Sepetys

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Out of the Easy (2013) by Ruta Sepetys was chosen as our next book for my book club. I’d never heard anything about it, but the many positive reviews were promising. Out of the Easy is a young-adult, coming-of-age story of Josie Moraine, a 17-year-old girl living in the French Quarter of New Orleans in the 1950’s. Josie is smart and good-hearted. She has dreams of getting out of New Orleans, but she has a lot of obstacles. Josie lives by herself, above a bookstore, where she has been living and working since she was a little girl. Her mother is a prostitute […]

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10/19/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:36 |

I feel let-down (thank godtopus this isn’t my Cannonball book) BINGO #2

Between the Bridge and the River by Craig Ferguson

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I had such hopes for this one. I have a noted love of Craig Ferguson. I read and enjoyed his autobiography American On Purpose during my first Cannonball Read. Ferguson in this debut is a version of creepy but lovable, which is a combination that worked very well for me in his stint as host of The Late Late Show and works less well in this book. I’m still struggling to wrap my head around what I read and what the heck he was after, and I have two weeks to get those thoughts more formulated for honest discussion  but […]

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10/18/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:51 |

This Book Feels So Incredibly Lonely

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

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I’m at a bit of a loss as to what my true feelings are on The Goldfinch… at first I had a hard time getting into it (and I thought, “how many pages are there in this brick of a novel?”), but then the majority of the rest flew by and I was captivated as to where it would go next, with only a few patches here and there where my interest wavered, only to then stall out within the last couple of sections and lose me once again. I remember feeling a similar way when I read Donna Tartt’s […]

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10/18/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:54 |

Want to fall in love with Trevor Noah?

Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah

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I’d read good things about this book for a little while but I assumed it was just another comedian celebrity writing a book to make some money.  Since I usually spend money on those exact books, I bought this with one of my first Audible credits.  I’ve always thought that comedians who read their own books are the very best of narrators so it seemed like a safe pick.  I’d watched the Daily Show with Trevor a few times.  A little less often than I did the Jon Stewart version but not much less.  In fact, I’d say I watched […]

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10/18/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:40 |

Cuddle up Hedgie Lovers there is a new adventure in town!

The Snowy Nap by Jan Brett

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The Snowy Nap is very classic Jan Brett. You will either LOVE IT or will be “This is okay.” There is little to no “middle ground” to the liking or disliking of the book. However, even if the story does not grab you, as for many people and many of her books, the best part of the story really are Brett’s illustrations. They are worth the price of admission! The story is sweet: our hero Hedgie does not want to take a winter nap this year. He wants to experience all the wonderful things that winter offers. Snowmen and snowflakes […]

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10/18/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:392 |


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