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 one year 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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“We’re done justifying our place at the table”

The Good Immigrant by Nikesh Shukla

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Bingo square: Underrepresented  The Good Immigrant is a collection of essays by writers, actors, and journalists about what it’s like being a minority in the UK today. A UK which sees you as someone who isn’t to be trusted, unless you’re winning an Olympic medal or are a great footballer. I don’t read a lot of non-fiction, and if I do it’s seldom short essay collections, but I mostly enjoyed this one. There are some excellent essays here, my favourites include Kendo Nagasaki and Me by Daniel York Loh, about the frustration of not seeing yourself reflected in popular culture […]

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10/21/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:40 |

A pretty depressing bingo

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

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Bingo Square: Award Winner In August of 1944, Saint-Malo in France is under siege. 16 year old Marie-Laure, blind since the age of six, is trying to survive the bombing and hide from someone who is searching for her. 18 year old Werner, a German solider, is trapped in the rubble of a hotel. From this starting point we go back several years, to Marie-Laure first losing her sight, and Werner’s childhood in an orphanage with his younger sister. Marie-Laure lives with her father, a locksmith at a museum, and he creates for her a model of their neighbourhood, so […]

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10/15/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:39 |

When reality ruins your escapism

Save the Date by Morgan Matson

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Bingo square: Brain Candy Charlie’s sister, Linnie, is getting married. This means all her siblings will be together again, something Charlie longs for. But as the Grant children assemble everything that could go wrong on Linnie’s big day does go wrong. From the wedding planner who may be a criminal to a suit mix up, power outage and a cake catastrophe. In the middle of this Charlie’s parents are selling their house, leaving Charlie feeling adrift, and her mother’s famous comic strip that features their entire family is coming to an end – complete with a live interview with Good […]

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10/7/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:38 |

“If anyone reads this when I have passed to the big bad beyond I shall be posthumorously embarrassed. I shall spend my entire afterlife blushing”

The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher

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Bingo Square: Birthday At around the time she began filming Star Wars: The Force Awakens (I believe), Carrie Fisher rediscovered journals from when she was 19 and filming the original film. She published excerpts from these diaries here, along with other insights about the bizarreness of fame and what it means to be associated with such a beloved character for so long. She also reveals an affair she had with Harrison Ford during said original film. It pains me to say I didn’t really enjoy this one. I’ve read others of hers and thought they were great – she’s an […]

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9/30/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:37 |

“What are you, Jackson, the last good man standing?”

Case Histories by Kate Atkinson

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Bingo Square: And So It Begins Case Histories is the first in Atkinson’s Jackson Brodie series. He’s a former police inspector turned private eye (with a stint in the army to boot) and there are three main cases he’s involved in within this book. Case 1: The disappearance, over thirty years before, of a three year old girl from her back garden. Case 2: The seemingly random killing of a solicitor’s daughter. Case 3: The murder of a husband by his wife with an axe. Jackson also has to deal with his ex wife and her new husband, a scatty […]

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9/27/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:36 |

“Home was warm and normal until it wasn’t”

Now My Heart is Full by Laura June

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Bingo Square: Not in My Wheelhouse When Laura June’s daughter, Zelda, is born, she thinks ‘I wish my mother were here’. A mother who has been dead for several years, and from whom Laura was estranged due to her mother’s alcoholism. Yet the birth of her daughter makes her feel closer to her mother than she has in some time, and in raising her daughter she begins to have some understanding of what her mother went through. There are common threads in motherhood that cannot be severed, and she feels more of a connection to the women her family who […]

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9/22/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:35 |

Some Food I Might Want to Eat

Cravings: Recipes for All the Food You Want to Eat by Chrissy Teigen

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Bingo Square: Delicious! I’m searching for the perfect recipe book. One that is filled with Carrie-friendly, quick, no fuss food that tastes great. I have seen a bunch of reviews for Chrissy Teigen’s Cravings and wondered, is this it?? I’m aware that I’m asking a lot of these books. I basically want them tailored to me, which wouldn’t bring in the big bucks I’m sure. But I’m tired of getting cookbooks and paging through to find one or two recipes I like or would even attempt. Long lists of ingredients and fiddly processes just put me right off. I have […]

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9/20/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:34 |

By the stars, we hope

Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers

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Bingo Square: Listicles. (From this list. Bonus points for telling me Morgan Matson has a new book out too.) The last humans to leave Earth when the planet was dying are known as Exodans. They were carried away by the Fleet, a large group of spacecrafts able to sustain their lives for centuries, until they could find a habitable planet on which to settle. Instead, they found alien life, and were eventually welcomed into the Galactic Commons – a sort of alien UN. Now able to survive on the Fleet indefinitely thanks to alien tech, they orbit a sun, never […]

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9/19/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:33 |


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