Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

Saying Goodbye to an Old Friend

A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Nonfiction by Terry Pratchett

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I didn’t think this book would be so emotionally difficult to get through. As readers of someone else’s fiction, it’s difficult to remember that there’s a real, down-to-earth, eats-and-breathes human behind the characters and fake world we so fall in love with. Terry Pratchett is himself, and even though Discworld was born from his head like Athena from Zeus, he’s not Discworld or any of the characters in it. In fact, to read his nonfiction is to sit in a very earthly room beside him having a very earthly conversation over a hot cup of milky tea and you feel […]

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8/17/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:18 |

He’s Not A Hero, But He’s the Best Man for the Job

Going Postal by Terry Pratchett

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I would totally read Terry Pratchett’s ink blotter or scribbled napkin, so my opinion on anything Pratchett is probably a little biased. However, “Going Postal” is my all-time favorite Discworld novel, and its one of his best. This is my third read of this book, and since I’m using it for a guest lecture on building an ‘invented’ world, I really paid attention to how Pratchett made the story. It’s just short of brilliant, and I wish I could have seen this man storyboard because it’s perfect. Moist is a good dude wrapped in a bad man’s clothes. He’ll swindle […]

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7/24/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:17 |

What the Victorians Didn’t Want You to Know

Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady's Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners. Bound to Please: A History of the Victorian Corset by Therese Oneill, Leigh Summers

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Many thanks to faintingviolet for passing off Unmentionable to me. It was an excellent compliment to Bound to Please, and reading the two together helped create a uniquely full picture for what life was like for the middle-class Victorian woman. It was bad. Plain and simple. While it can be argued that pestilence, disease, a lack of flush toilets, and leeches being the closest thing to an antibiotic made life tough for everyone, these books shed an undoubted truth that however difficult it was for the males in society, it was far worse for women. Since beginning research on the 19th Century about eight […]

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7/17/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:16 |

In Which I Was Tormented By Alliteration

Wild Women: Crusaders, Curmudgeons & Completely Corsetless Ladies in the Otherwise Virtuous Victorian Era by Autumn Stephens

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I should have stopped reading this book at this sentence: “The plain, practical Puritan and the gin-nipping flapper; robust Rosie the Riveter and waifish, wraith-like Twiggy; the billowing, buxom Gibson Girl and the beaded, barefoot earth mother…..” I’ll just stop there because I’m already angry and my brain hurts. I DNFed this book after page 100 because I just couldn’t take the alliteration anymore. It was like Dr. Seuss decided to leave children’s books behind and take on feminist non-fiction. Although I think Dr. Seuss could have done it better because he would have kept his opinions of the characters […]

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6/29/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:14 |

Untold Stories Unearthed

The President's Kitchen Cabinet: The Story of the African Americans Who Have Fed Our First Families, From the Washingtons to the Obamas by Adrian Miller

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Politics in any form is hard for me. I avoid confrontation and disagreement like the plague, so almost everything to do with politics makes me go running for the nearest blanket to hide under. But one of my Political Science students brought me a book catalog from a trip she went on, and The President’s Kitchen Cabinet was in it. I love food and anything to do with it, and looking at the history of politics through the lens of a thing I enjoy made this book an incredible read. Miller’s extensive research into the untold, and often undocumented stories of […]

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6/27/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:13 |

Yes, yes! All of the Yes!

Changeling by Delia Sherman

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I ended up reading this book by accident. I thought I’d requested a book with the same title written by Victer Lavelle, but this is what showed up at the library when I went to pick it up. Since I was already there I figured I’d give it ago. And I’m glad I did as this was one of the most adorable, wonderful books I’ve read in a while. First, every single major player in this book is female. And not a whiny, incapable cipher of a female, but a full fledged, kick-ass, rocking socking, smart-ass female. It was incredibly […]

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6/13/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:12 |

Right in the Feels

Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code by Eoin Colfer

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So anything I said about Mr. Colfer not hitting the right emotional cues in his last book have totally been remedied in the third Fowl installment.  Here I was, rolling along through this fun-loving YA series about a boy criminal mastermind and his faerie acquaintances and BOOM. First chapter Mr. Colfer shoots you right in the feels on page 10. At the risk of giving anything away, I won’t be writing heavy on this book’s plot details because you should just read it, but let’s suffice it to say that we’re getting to that part in a series where you know […]

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6/6/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:11 |

A Romping Fowl Time

Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident by Eoin Colfer

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Whew! Finally in the double digits for reviews! Last CBR I reviewed the first of the Artemis Fowl books, and I loved it so much I went hunting for the rest of the series. All of our favorite characters are back! Holly, Root, everyone’s favorite pre-teen mastermind, and excitingly, Mulch Diggums, who is my personal squee character. While this installment started out a little rocky, it finds its footing about a quarter of the way though and becomes the romping fun adventure we were all hoping for. In this book, Artemis has gotten some hits on where his presumed-dead father […]

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5/20/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:10 |

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