Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

This had so much potential…

Commonwealth by Ann Patchett

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I liked Commonwealth but I think I could have loved it. In the past the Cousins and Keatings are brought together one fateful day at a Christening party when Mr Cousins kisses Mrs Keating. After a few years of secret rendezvouses the Keatings and Cousins officially merge into one big, messy unit. This combined family situation begins to dissolve when one of the six children dies in an accident that is slowly revealed to the reader. “He realized then what he had known from the first minute he saw her, from when she leaned out the kitchen door and called for her […]

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8/21/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:87 |

Space: the Final Frontier

Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe by Mike Massimino

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“It’s a planet,” I said. “It’s not what we thought it was back home. It’s not this safe cocoon, man. We’re out here spinning in all this chaos. The Earth is a planet. The Earth is a spaceship, and we’re all space travelers.” My husband was *thisclose* to finishing his BS in Physics and taking his first steps into an Engineering program when NASA began the slow down, and eventual shut down, of its shuttle launches. He never wanted to be an astronaut; he wanted to build the spaceships (and be the guy who worked on what we sent into the […]

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8/21/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:86 |

Jackie’s Girl

Jackie's Girl: My Life with the Kennedy Family by Kathy McKeon

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This is not a book about the Kennedys; yes, of course, Jackie Kennedy and her children play major roles in the life of Kathy McKeon but the overall story is how a young, Irish immigrant found her place in America at the side of one of the most beloved American families. Kathy was raised in poverty on a farm in Ireland, when she was nineteen her American uncle offered to pay the way for her brother to come to New York but he declined. The uncle then offered to bring Kathy and her sister, Briege, over instead. The plan was […]

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8/13/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:85 |

“And eventually-though neither of us knew it yet-we’d end up here, in this place, within and without the world of the painting.”

a piece of the world by Christina Baker Kline

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I’d never heard of the painting Christina’s World but it is an otherwise well known work by American artist Andrew Wyeth; Christina Baker Kline uses the painting as a launching point for her novel A Piece of the World which does an excellent job blending the lives of real people into an enjoyable piece of fiction. “Later he told me that he’d been afraid to show me the painting. He thought I wouldn’t like the way he portrayed me: dragging myself across the field, fingers clutching dirt, my legs twisted behind. The arid moonscape of wheatgrass and timothy. That dilapidated house in the […]

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8/9/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:84 |

“Beckford is not a suicide spot. Beckford is a place to get rid of troublesome women.”

Into the Water by Paula Hawkins

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I have a well documented problem with books that have too many characters, particularly when the too many characters each have chapters from their point of views, so I don’t think I was every going to love Into the Water… That being said, even if the novel only focused on two or three of the characters I still don’t think I would have been into it, definitely not like I was with Hawkins’ previous novel Girl on the Train or any of the other recent strings of female focused thrillers. Nel, a single mother, is found at the bottom of the river in a […]

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8/9/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:83 |

But I’m a Cheerleader

Exit, Pursued by a Bear by E.K. Johnston

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This was a choice for last year’s Y.A. Book Club but it lost out to The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian and, having now read both, I wish Exit, Pursued By a Bear had won. “There’s a moment when I know that I should scream. But screaming would be hard. And blackness would be easy. Black picks me.” Hermione Winters is a popular cheerleader for the small Canadian town of Palermo, where cheerleaders are bigger sport stars than the teams they root for- like in Bring it On. Hermione, her best friend, Polly, and their fellow cheerleaders (including Hermione’s boyfriend, Leo) attend […]

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8/1/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:81 |

Unfiltered. Unsupervised. Unapologetic.

Stories I'd Tell in Bars: yeah, bro, another memoir by Jen Lancaster

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Jen Lancaster was the author that really got me into the memoir genre; she was loud, liked animals and felt comfortable sharing most of her somewhat ridiculous life with her audience. In recent years she has delved into fiction which I tried but haven’t enjoyed. Jen knew her core audience, including many of the women buying her fiction, wanted more memoirs from her and she wrote this book for them. But then her publisher didn’t want to publish “vintage Jen Lancaster” so she opted to self-publish. You can tell. It is rife with spelling and grammatical errors- to the point […]

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8/1/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:80 |

The Granite Mouse

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

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I don’t know how to properly express my love for this novel. Any review I give will pale in comparison to Irving’s opus and the only thing I can really say is that: if you haven’t read A Prayer for Owen Meany- you should and if you have read A Prayer for Owen Meany- then you should re-read it. I was first introduced to John Wheelwright and Owen Meany by my high school English teacher and I don’t think I properly appreciated it at the time. Who appreciates anything when they’re sixteen? I’ve read it at least one more time since graduating so I […]

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7/27/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:79 |

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