Cannonball Read 11

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Aiming for my fourth Double Cannonball with this awesome community

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“I was not a lovable child, and I’d grown into a deeply unlovable adult. “

Dark Places by Gillian Flynn

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Did you know that Gillian Flynn hasn’t written anything new since Gone Girl? She has kept busy doing the foreword to I’ll Be Gone in the Dark and writing the film & television adaptations to all three of her novels. Unfortunately she has been radio silent on the publishing front since the lack luster short story The Grownup in 2014! I was really disappointed in the film adaptation of Dark Places so I hadn’t thought much of the novel until my coworker began reading it a few weeks ago. I mentioned I had read it before but, besides the highlights, couldn’t really […]

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7/5/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:66 |

Jenny Lawson Times Two!

Let's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson

Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson

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Let’s Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir by Jenny Lawson “In short? It is exhausting being me. Pretending to be normal is draining and requires amazing amounts of energy and Xanax.” Jenny Lawson, the Bloggess, is one of the most relateable and funny women to come out of the blog craze of the early aughts. Her debut novel, Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, is a hysterical and poignant look at living with mental illness. But Jenny’s life isn’t just about managing her anxiety, OCD and depression. She has an intelligent partnership with her husband, Victor, and after years or fertility […]

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7/3/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:65 |

How did I go this long without reading Cath Crowley?!

Words in Deep Blue by Cath Crowley

Graffiti Moon by Cath Crowley

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Words in Deep Blue  Before badkittyuno disappeared off Cannonball again (I can say that because I’ve come back) she read and reviewed Words in Deep Blue by Cath Crowley. It sounded right up my alley so I downloaded the narrated-by-Australians (this may have added a star) audiobook from Overdrive and promptly fell in love. The night before Rachel Sweetie moved away from her hometown she left a note for her best friend, Henry, confessing her years long crush on him. Unfortunately Henry’s not-quite girlfriend, Amy, saw the note and made sure he never got it. Rachel thought his lack of reaction meant he […]

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6/24/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:63 |

“If I’m going to die, I’d like to actually live first.”

Five Feet Apart by Rachael Lippincott, Mikki Daughtry, Tobias Iaconis

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My review of Five Feet Apart:  Oh you want more? Sorry, I am a bit rusty on my review writing. Five Feet Apart is written by Rachael Lippincott, Mikki Daughtry, Tobias Iaconis which means it took three people to write this The Fault in our Stars rip-off. Stella has cystic fibrosis; she has a popular vlog, is developing an app for monitoring her drug regime and is well-liked at the hospital she has been treated at her entire life. Her healthy older sister died in a freak accident and now Stella is perpetually afraid about what will happen to her parents when she dies. Will also has […]

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6/24/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:61 |

Gentlemanly and Lady-like Guides to 18th century living

The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee

The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy by Mackenzi Lee

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Guys. The last (not even) 30 days of my life have been bonkers- like I would not be upset if you did not believe me when I say all of the following things have occurred since May 29th: I got in a horrific car accident. I walked away unharmed despite the airbags in my totaled car failing to deploy. My husband and I are in the process of buying and selling houses which is wonderful. We just found a (dream) house faster than planned which meant we had to scramble to get our house ready but we are currently undergoing the inspection/ […]

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6/24/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:60 |

“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 |


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