Cannonball Read 11

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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 two 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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It got me another bingo at least

Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer

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Bingo square: Award Winner. It won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, 2017 and Compton Crook Award for Best First Novel. In the distant future, war is a thing of the past. A utopia, fast car transport has meant countries are no longer boundaries. You can live in Italy and work in the US and go to school in Australia. People no longer belong to nations but Hives, chosen for their best fit to personality and beliefs. Nor do nuclear families exist, instead you belong to a bash’ of your making, put together with college friends and […]

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10/10/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:45 |

“We’re not gonna throw away the past as if it meant nothing.”

Pride by Ibi Zoboi

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Bingo Square: Remix This is an update/remix of Pride and Prejudice. Set in present day Brooklyn, its focus this time is the Benitez sisters, and is narrated by second child, Zuri. She is strong-willed and loves her family fiercely, especially her older sister, Janae, who is coming home from university for the summer. But a new family has moved in across the street and they take Janae’s attention – especially older brother Ainsley. But it’s Darius, the seemingly judgemental and arrogant younger brother who gets under Zuri’s skin, though not in a good way. I didn’t finish this one, but […]

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9/26/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:44 |

How to make more informed parenting choices (but probably still feel like you’re doing it wrong)

Cribsheet: A data driven guide to better, more relaxed parenting, from birth to preschool by Emily Oster

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Bingo Square: Science (I’m hoping this can fall in this category since it says ‘economics is the science of decision-making’ and this book is full of data from studies backing up what she says.) Having already written a bestseller about debunking pregnancy myths (Expecting Better, I missed that one while pregnant) Oster now tackles all the advice and information thrown at new parents. What can you take on board and what can you ignore? Are you really going to screw up your child based on these choices? (It feels like it most days.) She addresses big Mommy War type topics: […]

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9/23/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:43 |

The stage is set for murder…

Last Act by Christopher Pike

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Bingo square: Banned Books (listed here). Melanie has moved to a new town with her dad after her parents’ divorce and she’s struggling to make friends. That is until she helps Susan cheat in maths class and is invited to audition for the school play. Getting the part, Melanie is suddenly surrounded by new people, all of whom have a history together. Unfortunately Melanie has a history with Rindy, the gorgeous star of the play. Over the summer they had a fender bender and Melanie isn’t happy about the way it was resolved. Still, she has the handsome Marc to […]

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9/18/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:42 |

“The truth can cause a lot of trouble for those who are not supposed to know it.”

The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

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Bingo square: History/Schmistory (as in alternate history, given that – as with The Handmaid’s Tale – the book ends with historical notes from a symposium about Gilead in the year 2197). Set more than 15 years after the events of The Handmaid’s Tale, The Testaments is told by three different narrators. There is the familiar Aunt Lydia who we saw through Offred’s eyes in the previous book; a young girl named Daisy living in Canada and unaware of her ties to Gilead; and Agnes, one of the first generation to grow up under this regime. Each are giving their own […]

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9/15/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:41 |

Snakes, explosions, poisoning (several), hot British boys and really smart birds…

Weekend by Christopher Pike

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Shani is headed to Mexico with a group of friends to stay with their rich-but-do-they-even-like-her? frenemy, Lena. She has an amazing beach house totally cut off from the world and a darling adopted sister who is currently dying from kidney failure thanks to an accidental-but-probably-not poisoning at a party. Said party was attended by all those at this fabulous weekend away. Coincidence? But Shani isn’t worrying about any of that at the start, she’s too busy fantasising about what she’ll do to Brit boy Flynn when she gets him alone. Until the garage blows up with one of their number […]

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9/12/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:40 |

Another trip down memory lane

Flight 116 is Down by Caroline B. Cooney

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16 year old Heidi lives on the outskirts of a small town and barely interacts with her neighbours. She’s recently moved from a private school to the local high school and has yet to make friends. Her parents are wealthy but rarely at their massive residence, leaving Heidi isolated. Patrick is a volunteer EMT itching for an incident to prove his skills. Carly, Daniel, Teddie, and Darienne are passengers on flight 116. Some are heading home, others just to connecting flights, but their plane crashes in Heidi’s back yard. Not all of them will make it. I haven’t read this […]

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9/8/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:39 |

“I’m writing to you in the hope that we will not be the last”

To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers

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Bingo square: Travel Ariadne O’Neill is an astronaut on an ecological survey of new worlds. First Aecor, then Mirabilis, Opera and finally Votum, before returning to Earth. She and her colleagues, Chikondi, Jack, and Elena, are able to travel such long distances thanks to torpor (basically cryo-sleep), where their bodies will keep ageing, just not as quickly as if they were awake. And their bodies are readied for their new environments during torpor, via a revolutionary method known as somaforming. They are given supplementations to their biology, to further withstand radiation, changes in gravity, lack of sunlight, etc. All of […]

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9/4/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:38 |


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