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 10 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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‘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 |

“This entire exercise was stupid.” Never truer words spoken

13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson

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17 year old Ginny receives a package of envelopes from her estranged Aunt Peg, the first letter instructing her to get on a plane to London and to not read any of the other letters until she has completed the task set in the previous one. Peg has set up an account for her that will (supposedly) cover all the crazy antics she has planned for her niece over the summer. In London, Ginny stays with Peg’s friend Richard, befriends an artist called Keith, and then goes on a quest around Europe, each step guided by Peg’s letters. There will […]

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3/31/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:14 |

The End is the Beginning

Dreams of Gods and Monsters by Laini Taylor

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An alliance has formed between the angels and chimaera. A shaky alliance hinging on the deception of Karou and Ziri, her Kirin kin. After being attacked by Thiago, Karou killed him and put Ziri’s soul in Thiago’s body. Now the young Kirin has to make everyone believe he is the White Wolf, and that joining with the seraphim is their only option. Their new foe? Akiva’s uncle, Jael. He has learned about the portals to Earth and, thanks to the fallen seraphim Razgut, knows of human weapons. He wants to bring them back to Eretz, to fight the distant seraphim […]

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3/25/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:13 |

The War is Over. The Killing Continues

Days of Blood and Starlight by Laini Taylor

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Karou’s family is gone. The chimaera have been decimated. The city of Loramendi has fallen. The seraphim had learned the secret of the chimaera resurrection – that every lost solider’s soul was gleaned and returned to a new body by Brimstone – and with his death the angels were able to finally win the war for Eretz. Lost in her grief, Karou meets up with Thiago, the son of the Warlord who commanded the chimaera troops. In her past life as Madrigal, which she now remembers, Thiago had her beheaded for falling in love with the enemy, the seraphim Akiva. […]

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3/21/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:12 |

I’m a Poor Person, Get Me Out of Here!

Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan

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New Yorker Rachel Chu has been dating Nicholas Young for two years when he invites her to his best friend’s wedding in Singapore. It’ll be the starting point of a grand summer adventure of travel and amazing food, and the chance to meet all his friends and family. What Nick hasn’t told Rachel is that his family is rich. Crazy, stinking rich. The sort of money that’s difficult to fathom. His grandmother lives in a house so grand it might as well be a palace, and that’s where Nick grew up. Plus there’s the maids and private planes and jewels […]

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3/14/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:11 |

Don’t read this when you’re home alone!

I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara

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In the 1970s, the East Area Rapist terrorised California by committing 50 rapes. His crimes had escalated from peeping to burglary until he began threatening women, tying them up and attacking them. They escalated again when he chose victims whose male partners were present. Later, after his crimes took a deadlier turn when he murdered twelve people, he was known as the Original Night Stalker. McNamara coins her own name for him, The Golden State Killer. Putting together decades of history in a readable, easy to follow manner is no easy task. And yet Michelle McNamara makes it seem so. […]

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3/8/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:10 |


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