Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

There’s a Lot Going on Here.

The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman

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I think if I tried to fully explain the plot of The Invisible Library, we’d be here all day. This book has a LOT going on. Let me see if I can just skim the surface. Irene is a Librarian at a special Library that exists outside of space and time. Her job is to visit different worlds and collect books for the Library. Original printings, special books that only exist in one universe instead of in all of them, stuff like that. She’s sent out on a mission with a trainee, Kai, to retrieve a special version of Grimm’s […]

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8/15/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:36 |

This is No Time for Timidity

Al Franken, Giant of the Senate by Al Franken

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I read this book because I was promised an entire chapter devoted to s***-talking Ted Cruz, and Al Franken, Giant of the Senate did not disappoint. Really. I added this book to my library requests within 5 minutes of reading online that Al Franken hates Ted Cruz and spent a chapter in his newest book detailing exactly why. Ted Cruz’s response was to complain that Sen. Franken was using him to get more liberals to read his book. Guess what, Ted? It worked. In all seriousness, I probably would have read this anyway, but knowing I would get to enjoy […]

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8/1/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:35 |

Impending Doom

The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny

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The fifth book in the Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series, The Brutal Telling is a murder mystery that takes place in the small town of Three Pines, where a man no one seems to recognize has turned up dead in the local cafe. The Brutal Telling has all the hallmarks of the series: an outsider is murdered, the peace of Three Pines is shattered, Inspector Gamache bestows his beatific smile on those who deserve it and saves the day. But for reasons unrelated to the quality of these books, I’m starting to struggle with them a bit. The Inspector Gamache […]

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7/28/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:34 |

Cozy Cotswolds

Agatha Raisin Mysteries, Books 1-5 by MC Beaton

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Wow, it feels like forever since I posted a review.  We bought a house last month and everything else has been on hold while we moved and settled in. In that time, I discovered Agatha Raisin and found that she was perfect for stressful times of life. The Agatha Raisin series is about a middle-aged woman, Agatha, who retires from her high-powered job in London for a quiet life in the Cotswolds. Unfortunately, chaos and murder seems to follow her and she finds herself mixed up in one murder case after another. Fancying herself a bit of an amateur detective, […]

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7/7/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:33 |

The end of the beginning

When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

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When this book first came out, a friend of mine texted me and told me I had to read it. I dutifully added to my TBR list, but privately I thought I’d never get around to it. I couldn’t imagine ever being in a mood where I’d want to read the memoir of a man who died of cancer in his 30s. I work in direct service, and it’s a convenient excuse to get out of a lot of “sad” things. I see real life sadness everyday, I tell myself–I’m not going to go to see tearjerker movies. I’m not […]

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6/19/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:28 |

Culture Shock

First Fieldwork: The Misadventures of an Anthropologist by Barbara Gallatin Anderson

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First Fieldwork was an assigned reading when I took Intro to Anthropology in college. That was a good 15 years ago, and since then I’ve reread this book probably five times. It’s short, it’s interesting, and it’s hilarious. Barbara Gallatin Anderson recounts a fieldwork assignment in the tiny fishing village of Taarnby, Denmark. She and her husband are there to study the changes that urbanization is making to the culture of the small town. To this non-anthropologist, that sounds dull as dishwater, and I’m guessing I wouldn’t have had any interest in a genuine ethnography. First Fieldwork, however, is not […]

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6/15/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:27 |

We need to talk about Peter

A Rule Against Murder by Louise Penny

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Half Cannonball, and a third of the way through the Inspector Gamache books! Like all the other Inspector Gamache books, this one is great. If you’re not familiar, these books take place in Quebec (mostly in a small town called Three Pines, but this one takes place at a remote hotel not too far away), and star Inspector Armand Gamache, a homicide detective and one of the best people in literature. By “best” I don’t mean best written (although he is pretty well written), but I mean like literally one of the best people ever. He’s kind, forgiving, smart, gentle, […]

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6/6/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:26 |

Wolves at the Door

The Wolves Chronicles by Joan Aiken

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There are actually 12 books in the Wolves Chronicles, but when I was a kid I only read six of them, and these were the six that I recently reread and am reviewing: The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, Black Hearts in Battersea, Nightbirds on Nantucket, The Stolen Lake, The Cuckoo Tree, and Dido and Pa. The series takes place in alternate timeline in 1800s England (in this timeline, James II was never deposed in the Glorious Revolution, and so throughout the books his descendants sit on the throne of England. The other main difference is the number of wolves in […]

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6/4/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:25 |

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