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Chris's Reviews:

Strong Debut

There There by Tommy Orange

June 8, 2019 by Chris Leave a Comment

There are people who wonder why the need for diverse books exists. Sometimes they can admit that there are not enough minorities in works of fiction, but that is usually followed by something along the lines of “minorities should write them then”. Combine that with the issue of approbation and these same people then add something like “why should white men write about other groups when they always combine it is wrong”. Of course, that is the answer to the question itself. But a book […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: tommy orange

Chris's CBR11 Review No:67 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: tommy orange ·
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Syria's Secret Library by Mike Thomson

May 23, 2019 by Chris Leave a Comment

Disclaimer: ARC via Netgalley Ursula K Le Guin tells the story of a place whose happiness depends on one child being miserable in “The One Who Walks Away from Omelas” and the reactions to those when they discover it. In part, our ability to exist in the world is on our ability to disregard or ignore horrors, but sometimes we refuse that happiness, refuse to bow to the horrors. In many ways, Thomson’s book makes me think of that story as well as how much […]

https://cannonballread.com/2019/05/syrias-secret-library-chris/

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: MIke Thomson, NetGalley

Chris's CBR11 Review No:66 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: MIke Thomson, NetGalley ·
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Read the book Trump can’t!

The Muller Report by Robert Mueller

May 23, 2019 by Chris 1 Comment

5 stars is somewhat misleading. I mean, it’s a government report. It isn’t riveting. Highlights:   Edition: I am using the Brown Books Publishing Group Edition because it was cheap. It has a foreword by Lt. Col. Allen B. West (Ret.), and an introduction by Hon. Dan Boren. One is Republican, one a Democrat. Neither one seems very happy about the current state of politics. Because this kindle edition does not use page numbers, I will use location numbers. ALl typos are my mistakes. Cool, […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: Robert Mueller

Chris's CBR11 Review No:65 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: Robert Mueller ·
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Everyone should read this

How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

May 23, 2019 by Chris 3 Comments

Disclaimer: I received an ARC via Netgalley.   Shortly after I finished this book, I put a quote from it up on the board in my classroom. At one point, Kendi argues that white supremacy is also anti-white and a form of genocide on whites. This is in addition to the attacks on non-whites. The interesting thing is that the black students (I use black because not all of the students are American citizens) were all nodding their heads, and the white students were all […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: Anti-Racism, ibram x. kendi, NetGalley

Chris's CBR11 Review No:64 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: Anti-Racism, ibram x. kendi, NetGalley ·
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Should read about police

Policing the Planet by Jordan T Camp

May 23, 2019 by Chris Leave a Comment

I should note that I am most likely a little less left leaning than the majority of Verso readers. I have the publishers, it makes me think, and I always learn something. But my politics are less revolutionary and radical. On one hand, this book is a little repetitive and slightly misnamed. I’m not sure why it is policing the planet when the essay focus on the US. There is mention of Toronto and many of the groups interviewed have voiced support for Palestine, but […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: Christina Heatherton, Jordan T Camp

Chris's CBR11 Review No:63 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: Christina Heatherton, Jordan T Camp ·
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A little trip to Sweden

Castle Gripsholm by Kurt Tucholsky

May 23, 2019 by Chris Leave a Comment

May 2019 NYRB Selection Look at that cover. What’s not to love? And then you have lines like this, “I looked at the two herrings, the two herrings looked a me, and none of us said anything” (25). On one level the story is about a man and his lover going on vacation to Sweden. One the other hand is it that or the story the character wrote about two people going on vacation. Then it is also a story of saving a child from […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Kurt Tucholsky

Chris's CBR11 Review No:62 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Kurt Tucholsky ·
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