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Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

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A Heavyweight Collection

Bone: The Complete Cartoon Epic in One Volume by Jeff Smith

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I began reading comic books in the early nineties. There was no local comic shop in my tiny town, but I was able to use a mail-order service, and a few weeks later a package would arrive at home with my new issues, catalog, and if I was lucky a free promotional comic. One such time, I received a copy of Bone #1 (8th printing), and I was transported into the adventures of the Bone cousins. All those years ago I was able to read the entirety of the Bone series. But last year, as I was debating purchasing the […]

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9/24/2018 |

Snubbed? Sure, but still a winning story

The Birchback House by Louise Erdrich

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If I am reading my research correctly, Louise Erdrich’s The Birchback House was a 1999 National Book Award Finalist. I know this book was on my shelf for a long time, but I was saving it for the Snubbed category which is no shame as it went up against some AMAZING books. She went up against Kimberly Willis Holt (winner. Yay! LOVED the book/author), Laurie Halse Anderson’s Speak (OMG! What a book/author!), Polly Horvath (did not read Trolls but she is very good) and Walter Dean Myers (I have loved him since I first read him…I sadly never got to […]

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9/24/2018 |

I was in love with the night even before I was in love with the girl

Kaleidoscope Song by Fox Benwell

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It starts in a bar. One of ours, in the heart of Khayelitsha. Nothing special on the outside but inside, tonight, two hundred people cram together beneath the corrugated roof and wait, turned out in their Friday Bests, because everyone knows you have to look good for the radio (1).   Thanks to the great curating at my local public library, I stumbled onto this book totally by accident—intrigued by its cover and by the description on the inside flap.  I had just seen the somewhat bland movie, Alex Strangelove, on Netflix and so I was intrigued by a coming […]

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9/24/2018 |

I gave up

Male/Male Romance Series Starter by Annabeth Albert, Sidney Bell, Layla Reyne, and A.R Barley

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You know, when I signed up for Cannonball Read last December I had every plan of finally reading some of the reputably excellent books that are sitting in my library just waiting for me to finally read them. I also was planning to read some academic book that I should have read like five years ago (yes , I am looking at you Marshall McLuhan) and some really wonderful comics book I’ve bought over the years and have yet to read. Instead I am mostly just reading gay romance novels on my phone I am ok with this development (sorry […]

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9/24/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:10 |

Women talking, getting comfortable with anger

Women Talking by Miriam Toews

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I picked up Miriam Toews’ newest novel, Women Talking, in the airport recently. I felt very lucky because it ticked so many boxes for me – I had run out of reading material on a work trip so really needed a book, it was in those new resell displays at the news stand so it was discounted enough to get through my NO NEW BOOK PURCHASES embargo, it fits with my vow to read more Canadian literature, and it was published in 2018. Toews has included a note at the beginning of the novel, characterizing it as a fictional reaction […]

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9/23/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:21 |

“When am I giving up? I’m not. I did not give up on myself then. I am not giving up on you now.” (CBR10Bingo)

The Governess Game (Girl Meets Duke #2) by Tessa Dare

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I love a fun, feminist, anachronistic romance novel and that is something that Tessa Dare delivers regularly. Dare writes what I fondly refer to as Historical Fantasy Romance. There is *some* historically accurate details running through her narrative but they are very thin and often bent to suit her plot needs. In the second outing in the Girl Meets Duke series we’re following Alex Mountbatten, introduced in The Duchess Deal, who makes her living by setting clocks to Greenwich Mean Time. Following a terrible, and hysterically inappropriate interview for a governess position she doesn’t realize she’s being interviewed for, Alex […]

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9/23/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:46 |

In which I parody Kurt Vonnegut to stick it to cancer

God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian by Kurt Vonnegut

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CBR 10 Bingo: Birthday – Kurt Vonnegut born November 11, 1922 This is Kim Pendergest, Cannonball Read 10’s reporter on the Afterlife. During yesterday’s controlled near-death experience, I interviewed Kurt Vonnegut and asked him to explain why he decided to write God Bless Dr. Kevorikian. “So what’s the deal?” I asked. “Was this just a cash-grab?” “Not at all,” he said, “I started writing these as 90-second spots for WNYC, the public radio station for New York City.” “Thanks for the exposition, but I know that already. And that’s all well and good, but why bind these into a book […]

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9/23/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:23 |

Classic King – not for the faint of heart

The Stand by Stephen King

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I adore post-apocalyptic literature and have read many of the Stephen King biggies (The Shining, Misery, Carrie, Pet Cemetary, It, Salem’s Lot, Christine, Needful Things, Thinner) so not sure why I hadn’t read The Stand but I think the size of the volume probably had something to do with it. At 1153 pages The Stand is less a hobby and moreso a lifestyle choice. His fifth book, written in 1978, it was definitely a blast from the past. I snagged the copy held for me at the library and was downright crestfallen to learn that I actually picked up the 10th […]

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9/23/2018 |


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