Cannonball Read 10

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Carriejay

Many moons ago I took part in Cannonball Read II, under the name Teabelly. A lot has changed since then, and I now have 12 month old twin girls. I'm not getting as much reading done, but I'm hoping to make a half Cannonball at least.

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They do it because they can

The Power by Naomi Alderman

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The Power considers a world in which women can create and conduct electricity with their bodies, with enough juice to kill a man. Now the tables have turned, and it’s men who have to be afraid. What will become of this new world order? The story unfolds through four main characters. There’s Roxy, daughter of a London gangster; Allie, grown up in foster care and creates a new persona once her power comes in, that of Mother Eve; Margot, mayor of somewhere in the US (if it tells me where I already forgot); and Tunde, a Nigerian journalist. This is […]

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6/20/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:22 |

We’re All Strangers to Each Other

The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule

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In 1971 Ann Rule was a writer struggling to get by on articles for detective magazines. During her free time she volunteered at a Seattle Crisis Clinic, helping callers through their personal issues. Her partner during this time was Ted Bundy. Ann liked him immediately. They saw each other a little and were in contact some after leaving the crisis centre, and Ann would offer advice on his romantic life with his lost love, Stephanie. In 1974 there were attacks against young women and disappearances. With Ann’s background in law enforcement and her writing expertise she was the perfect person […]

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5/20/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:21 |

One Cannot Live on Faith Alone

The Wonder by Emma Donoghue

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In a small Irish village in the 1850s a miracle is taking place. Or is it? Eleven year old Anna O’Donnell has been fasting for four months and yet is alive and well. Lib, an English nurse trained by Florence Nightingale, is sent to Ireland to watch the girl and report back to a committee about her findings. Is Anna a fraud or a blessed child? Lib is confident that it’s the former, but as Anna begins to deteriorate, she struggles with her own complicity in the child’s ailing health. Her family and the local priest seem blind to Anna’s […]

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5/8/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:20 |

All Filler No Killer

Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson

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The Ellingham Academy has a dark and famous history. In 1936 Iris Ellingham and her daughter, Alice, were kidnapped. Albert Ellingham, a man so rich he can start a free private school in the hills of Vermont, tries to pay the ransom to have them returned, but to no avail. One clue to the crime is a mocking riddle received days before they disappeared, and signed ‘Truly, Devious’. Cut to the present day and the school is still open and accepting students. One of those is Stevie Bell, a girl obsessed with the Ellingham case and who applied to the […]

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5/1/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:19 |

You’re Welcome to Weep

Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor

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On the Second Sabbat of Twelfthmoon, in the city of Weep, a girl fell from the sky. Lazlo Strange has been fascinated by the city of Weep since he was a boy. A far away place cut off from the world 200 years ago, even its name has been snuffed out of existence. Lazlo felt magic in the air when that happened, and has spent his life since learning all he can about Weep. An orphan raised by monks, he finds himself at the library as a teenager and decides to stay there. In a forgotten section he reads about […]

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4/26/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:18 |

‘Haven’t you ever felt like there has to be more?’

More Than This by Patrick Ness

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Seth drowns. His body is beaten against rocks, bones broken, and he dies. He wakes up in the street outside his old house in England. He’s lived in the US for almost a decade. And the world around him is crumbling. Food is moulding on the shelves, a sinkhole has opened in the middle of the road. And he is alone. Until he meets The Driver, a seemingly unstoppable force that’s out to kill Seth. But can he die when he’s already dead? Is this some version of hell? A personal one, just for him? Is it real, or just […]

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4/16/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:17 |

Where I wax lyrical about roller derby in the guise of a book review

Eat Sweat Play: How Sport Can Change Our Lives by Anna Kessel

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I wouldn’t call myself a sporty person. I hated PE growing up (first thing on a Monday morning!!). Shivering on a muddy field in the freezing temperatures of northern England. The boys in their long sleeved rugby tops, us girls in short skirts and navy knickers (so archaic it’s ridiculous). The only options in winter were netball and hockey, two sports I loathed. Nothing about my physical education made me want to exercise. It wasn’t fun. It felt like a punishment. So I was as surprised as anyone when I started playing a team sport aged 29. I found roller […]

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4/13/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:16 |

Read A.J. Fikry Instead

Young Jane Young by Gabrielle Zevin

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Aviva Grossman is a young woman interning for a congressman when they begin an affair. He’s almost as old as her parents and married. It’s the early days of the internet and she keeps an anonymous blog about it, with seemingly few readers. But after an incident brings to light the possibility of their relationship the blog is found and Aviva is torn apart by the media. The congressman, of course, comes out relatively unscathed. Unable to find work after becoming horrendously Google-able, Aviva changes her name and moves to a small town, starting over. She has a daughter, Ruby, […]

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4/4/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:15 |


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