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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 |

Okay I loved this but don’t read it until there’s more!!!

Fence, Vol. 1 by C.S. Pacat, Johanna the Mad

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What was that and give me the rest right now. I’ve been looking forward to reading this because even from the summary I could tell I was going to enjoy it, and also I loved C.S. Pacat’s Captive Prince trilogy. But I don’t think I was quite prepared for just how much fun I would have with this comic/manga hybrid (it was written with many of the techniques and tropes common in manga, even though pretty much everything else about it is western). Like, that five stars is mine alone. You may very well, and probably will, read the first […]

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10/23/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:128 |

“Well, he thought, so this is diplomacy. It’s lying, only for a better class of people.”

The Fifth Elephant (Discworld, #24) by Terry Pratchett

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 “It was funny how people were people everywhere you went, even if the people concerned weren’t the people the people who made up the phrase ‘people are people everywhere’ had traditionally thought of as people.” I keep going back and forth over whether this should get the fifth star, and that back and forth is what’s keeping it at four (for now), but this is my favorite of these books since Hogfather. I very well may change my mind at any time and increase the rating. It didn’t *quite* have the emotional oomph I like from these books in order […]

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10/23/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:127 |

Vol. 9 and still going strong.

Ms. Marvel, Vol. 9: Teenage Wasteland by G. Willow Wilson

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Should I just copy and paste things from my previous reviews of this series so as to just really hammer the point home? “Okay, so Ms. Marvel is probably my SECOND favorite comic, definitely my favorite superhero comic. I love Carol Danvers probably as much as I love Kamala Khan, but the last couple of Captain Marvel trades have fallen a little flat for me, and meanwhile G. Willow Wilson continues to absolutely KILL IT with Kamala.” -Me, three years ago “How does this series continue to be SO GOOD. It is the only superhero comic I read that doesn’t […]

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10/23/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:126 |

Whoah, this girl is messed up – BINGO

Before I Met Him: a chilling psychological thriller by John Nicholl

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cbr10bingo… Cover Art THIS IS MY FIRST BINGO!  (I plan on having more, but we’ll see)  I chose this book for “cover art”, because it’s obviously a cool / disturbing cover. We start out the story with a British detective (or inspector, or whatever rank he was at the time) talking to a family about how the pedophile who sexually abused their six year old daughter won’t be brought to justice.  It’s devastating to both the family and the detective, because he’s a bad dude and he did some real harm. Flash forward fifteen (I think) years, and the little […]

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10/23/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:49 |

I wish I liked the characters more

Sunburn by Laura Lippman

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cbr10bingo… Underrepresented I really wish I liked the main character more.  I picked this audiobook (in CD form) up from the library on a whim.  The cover looked cool, and the story sounded interesting.  I’m always up for a murder mystery with a dash of hidden identities. The main character is Polly / Pauline.  She starts out by abandoning her daughter and husband on their beach vacation and driving to Delaware.  I don’t know if this was the point, but I didn’t like her right from the beginning.  She seemed selfish, self-absorbed, and kinda bitchy.  It appeared that she always […]

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10/23/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:48 |

John Rain goes to Rio

Winner Take All (A John Rain Novel Book 3) by Barry Eisler

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So after the events of book two, where John almost gets killed a few times, he activates his escape plan.  John had been cultivating a false identity in Brazil for years in the eventuality that he’d need to get out of Japan and start a new life. Unfortunately, one of the women he met in Japan is actually from Brazil, and she returns home and they start seeing each other again.  She unknowingly (he thinks knowingly) leads them to John, and he’s almost killed again.  Once the CIA finds him, they want him to be their “natural causes” assassin again. […]

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10/23/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:47 |

My least favorite of the series, but still worth reading, if you liked the first three.

Mother's Milk (Patrick Melrose, #4) by Edward St. Aubyn

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“Did you know,” said Patrick, addressing Seamus again, “that among the caribou herdsmen of Lapland, the top shaman gets to drink the urine of the reindeer that has eaten the magic mushrooms, and his assistant drinks the urine of the top shaman, and so on, all the way down to the lowest of the low who scramble in the snow, pleading for a splash of twelfth-generation caribou piss?” “I didn’t know that,” said Seamus flatly. “I thought it was your special field,” said Patrick, surprised. “Anyhow, the irony is that the premier cru, the first hit, is much the most toxic. […]

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10/22/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:125 |

My Dear Dodson

Joe Ide by IQ

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I have not read Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes work so I’m only half familiar with the many references here and in other knockoffs. I get “Dodson” as “Watson” and this being a take on The Hound of the Baskervilles but beyond that, anything else was beyond me. So I went into this more interested in the story itself as opposed to how it matches up with its inspirational texts. And it’s mostly a good story. Joe Ide is a quality writer and this is a decent first effort. The crime story was interesting and unfolded well. Though I didn’t care […]

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10/22/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:36 |


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