Cannonball Read 10

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Ale

I'm adjuncting in creative writing, and I'm in the midst of finishing a novel I'd like to send for publication by the end of 2018. CBR has definitely helped my writing since now I know what readers are looking for and not looking for in their works. So, thank you, CBR! Hopefully someday, we'll be able to review my novel on this blog. :)

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2nd Bingo!

Good Omens: The Nice & Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman

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In preparation for the upcoming new Amazon series, I decided to reread “Good Omens.” It’s probably been about a decade since I picked this up the first time, and while there were many parts that I thoroughly re-enjoyed, there were other parts that let me down. And not because it’s bad, but just because we’re getting farther and farther away from many of the contemporary nuances and details that were hilarious in the 2000s. Sadly, as time marches on, much of the ironic nuance in the jokes and satire don’t make sense simply because we’re missing the contemporary background. Published […]

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11/15/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:26 |

Simply Adorable

Kenny and the Dragon by Tony DiTerlizza

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A big thank-you to crystalclear for suggesting this book both on CBR and in person (by means of shoving the audio book case at me in a parking lot). I toted it around in my car for about a week before reading her review, and I’m glad I took the few hours to listen to this on my commute. The book is absolutely adorable. Kenny is a young rabbit living in a little farming village, and like most children’s book characters, he doesn’t fit in. He’s a book worm and a smarty-pants, while the rest of his village is more […]

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11/9/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:25 |

Poetry as Prose

Orphaned by Eliot Schrefer

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I have the glorious honor of introducing one of my mentor’s new books to our school on Monday. And what a book it was! But first, backstory….Eliot Shrefer was the second reader for my thesis, and the teacher who really taught me to story-board and get to the nitty-gritty about my novel. It’s safe to say I’m a little indebted to him, so I was very excited to get a copy of his newest book and be asked to write an introduction for his interview.  He also fits beautifully into CBR bingo, as his birthday is in November! Onto the […]

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11/2/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:24 |

Racism is Racism, No Matter What Time Period

The Secret River by Kate Grenville

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Last summer I helped my boss chaperone his student study-abroad trip to Australia, and the class read this book on the plane going over. I was far more enticed with Air New Zealand’s extensive on-flight entertainment package, and so I spent my plane ride in the iron-a** challenge watching all six (extended) Lord of the Rings and Hobbit films instead.  Since returning, my boss has been passively placing The Secret River in obvious places on my desk, which I’ve learned is his silent way of saying it’s a book I really need to read. He’s adorable, my boss.  Bingo seemed […]

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10/29/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:23 |

Crimson Word Vomit

Crimson Peak: The Official Movie Novelization by Nancy Holden

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For ease of reading, here are our handles’ abbreviations: crystalclear – CC faintingviolet – FV Ale – just Ale (you’re welcome)   CrystalClear: So, this is all my fault.  I decided to rent Crimson Peak for movie night, mainly to see Tom Hiddleston’s ass.  And while it was indeed a glorious sight, the rest of the movie was not worth it.  My memory is absolute shite, so here’s what I remember of the movie before delving into the book: We have the girl, who played Alice in Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland.  Anyway, daddy’s princess is writing a thing, but […]

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10/11/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:22 |

Bingo! Bingo! Bingo!

Dubliners by James Joyce

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First Bingo!!!! I’m going to be teaching “Dubliners” to my Advanced Fiction students this semester, so what luck that we had a square for old books 🙂 Written in 1914, James Joyce hoped to capture the tenor of his city in a series of short stories that act like windows into the lives of Dublin’s inhabitants in the early 20th Century. Did I like this book? It grew on me. It’s not thematic or cyclic, nor does it have any reoccurring characters. At its core, it’s purely slice-of-life, turning a light on over the heads of the characters in intimate […]

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10/9/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:21 |

A Woman Will Always Sacrifice Herself

Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier

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I decided I would find a more obscure banned/challenged book for the bingo game and came across Daughter of the Forest, which was challenged in a Missouri high school in 2015 for the rape scene that happens about a third of the way into the book. Since the rest of the story is filled with violent warfare, torture, imprisonment, and an attempted witch burning, I found it ironic that the most unwholesome plot point to the challengers was the rape and subsequent PTSD our main character experiences from the assault. What bothered me more was that this was challenged so recently. […]

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9/25/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:20 |

Drugs and Other Unreliable Narrators

Jesus' Son: Stories by Denis Johnson

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I read this with my mentor for our Advanced Fiction course, and it’s definitely far outside my wheelhouse in both content and structure. Johnson’s story follows an unnamed addict through a series of short snippets told out of order chronicling his cycle of addiction and rehabilitation. Johnson’s choice to tell this story out of order worked very well, as we get to see all the different facets of the narrator regardless of where he is in his habits, or what he’s doing.  All the narration is done in first person, giving us a difficult job of deciding whether or not […]

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9/13/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:19 |


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