Cannonball Read 11

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Caitlin_D

Aiming for my fourth Double Cannonball with this awesome community

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“The thing about a spiral is, if you follow it inward, it never actually ends. It just keeps tightening, infinitely.”

Turtles All the Way Down by John Green

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I’ve read a lot of YA the last few weeks and constantly found myself comparing them to the YA master, John Green, so the natural next step was to reread some Green’s books. I really enjoyed Turtles All the Way Down when I read it the first go around during CBR9. Back in 2017 John Green hadn’t published anything in over five years so perhaps in my hunger for new J.G. YA I was not as critical as I could have been and posted an effusive five star review that, while I don’t regret it, would probably make some edits to […]

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6/2/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:58 |

Just don’t read the last chapter

When the Lights Go Out by Mary Kubica

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“I remembered the way it is with dreams sometimes, how they have a habit of being less literal and more metaphoric, and I thought that sometimes with dreams like this, it’s not about who’s chasing you, but what you’re running from.” Jessie Sloan’s mother, Eden, has recently passed away after a lengthy battle with cancer; Jessie is overcome with grief and is unable to sleep. When Jessie goes to apply for college, something her mother suggested she do, she is told her social security number belongs to a dead girl and it sends the sleep deprived Jessie into a bit […]

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6/1/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:57 |

So take a look what you’ve done/ ‘Cause, baby, now we’ve got bad blood, hey!/ Now we’ve got problems/ And I don’t think we can solve ’em

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou

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Bad Blood is the story of Theranos and its founder’s, Elizabeth Holmes, fall from grace following the revelation that the whole company was built on secrets and lies.  I was aware of Holmes and Theranos from the countless articles written about her before and after the truth came out but it wasn’t until I saw the HBO documentary The Inventor: Out for Blood that I really grasped how deep her deception went. By positioning Theranos as a tech company in the heart of the Valley, Holmes channeled this fake-it-until-you-make-it culture, and she went to extreme lengths to hide the fakery. The Theranos […]

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5/30/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:56 |

Girl power AKA WWII most decorated spy was a woman

Code Name: Lise. The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy by Larry Loftis

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I had never heard of British spy Odette Sansom Churchill before Code Name: Lise because, like any spy worth their salt, Odette has managed to fly under the radar. The French born Odette’s espionage career began when she answered an ad for photographs of the French coast. When she inquired about getting her photos back she was instead approached about joining the Special Operations Executive (S.O.E). And there was something about the eyes – dark, determined…defiant. If his instincts were right, this was a girl who would throw herself headlong into danger. He wrote the letter. Odette, a married mother […]

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5/30/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:55 |

Ron and Tammy Two

The Greatest Love Story Ever Told by Megan Mullally, Nick Offerman

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Like most red blooded Americans I am a huge fan of Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally both as individual actors and as a couple. The duo are best known for their respective portrayals of Ron Swanson & Karen Walker but throughout the years they’ve become synonymous with #CoupleGoals and for good reason. The Greatest Love Story Ever Told is an oral history of their lives together and is probably best enjoyed in the audio-book format. I actually don’t know how this would work on paper, I’m sort of intrigued to seek it out, because the audio-book is essentially a podcast. The […]

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5/28/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:54 |

An Asian Pacific Heritage Month Reading

Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China by Jung Chang

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My library had Empress Dowager Cixi on Overdrive this month as part of Asian American History Month and, knowing very little about Chinese history, decided to check it out. Chang’s biography of the Dowager Empress is both exhaustive and exhausting. While it has its moments 19th century history isn’t always interesting and Chang, who essentially regurgitates facts for 400 pages, does little to spice up the narrative. That’s a bit unfair to Cixi, whose story requires very little extra spice, but more a critique of Chang’s writing style. Few of her achievements have been recognised, and when they are, the credit is […]

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5/28/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:53 |

It’s Erin– Ms Gibson if you’re Feminasty

Feminasty: The Complicated Woman's Guide to Surviving the Patriarchy Without Drinking Herself to Death by Erin Gibson

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I live in a state where Ted “Zodiac Killer” Cruz beat Beto O’Rouke in the Senate, where Greg Abbot succeeded Rick Perry as Governor and where we are so pro-life anti- choice we are considering sentencing women who make the personal decision to have an abortion to the death penalty.  Some days it just feels impossible but it isn’t! And when you’re ready to laugh a little through your outrage Erin Gibson will be there for you with Feminasty.  I read Gibson’s Feminasty last week when news was first breaking that Georgia, and later Alabama as well as my homestate of […]

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5/23/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:52 |

Not as good as It Takes Two but not bad

The Princess and the Fangirl (Once Upon a Con, #2) by Ashley Poston

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“I’m Jess- Jessica Stone,” says a girl on the stage, but it isn’t me. This isn’t happening. This is impossible The Princess and the Fangirl is a modern retelling of The Prince and the Pauper as told in the universe that 2017’s Geekerella takes place. Elle and Darien are tertiary characters this go around and our focus is instead on Darien’s costar Jessica and Imogen, a young woman running a campaign to keep Jessica’s character in the upcoming Starfield sequel. The story is told in alternating perspectives during ExcelsiCon where the two main characters run into each other and, with ulterior motives on both their parts, agree […]

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5/23/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:51 |


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