Cannonball Read 10

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faintingviolet

A lady reader and caffeine addict who consumes all sorts of books, some just more frequently than others. I believe in community, and the beauty that comes from a common goal of reading, sharing, talking, and saying Fuck You to cancer.

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Audrey is Great. This Book? Not So Much. (CBR10Bingo)

Enchantment: The Life of Audrey Hepburn by Donald Spoto

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When we were voting for the AlabamaPink book club this book was my second choice (even though I don’t vote my first choice was Between the Bridge and the River and I’ll be talking about my feelings on that one in my next review) so choosing this for the Alabama Pink bingo square made perfect sense to me. I like biographies, Audrey Hepburn, and classic Hollywood – done and done. I am however left underwhelmed by the reading experience of this book. I think it can be attributed to the style of its author. Donald Spoto is a writer and […]

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10/14/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:49 |

A Visit to My Childhood (BINGO!)

All-of-a-Kind Family by Sydney Taylor

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I couldn’t let September close without achieving my first bingo. It was bothering me that I was sitting with 14 squares done and no bingos, and that given my available library books it was two more squares at least until I accomplished this. And then I remembered that I had my Throwback Thursday choice sitting on my bookshelf and it was time to take a trip back to my childhood reading. I have no recollection of how All-of-a-Kind Family arrived on my shelves. There’s no inscription in the front, no library book sale note, I didn’t write my name in […]

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9/30/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:48 |

Our Histories Build Us (CBR10Bingo)

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

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Confession: I took this book out of the library no less than twice before I managed to read it. I was intimidated by the book, both by its content and its acclaim. It has a near perfect five star rating on Cannonball Read and high rating on Goodreads where literary fiction doesn’t normally do so well. I shouldn’t have been hesitant – the book earns its high rating by being one of the most accessible works of literary and historical fiction I have possibly ever read. In her debut Yaa Gyasi tells a story which is both grand in scope […]

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9/30/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:47 |

“When am I giving up? I’m not. I did not give up on myself then. I am not giving up on you now.” (CBR10Bingo)

The Governess Game (Girl Meets Duke #2) by Tessa Dare

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I love a fun, feminist, anachronistic romance novel and that is something that Tessa Dare delivers regularly. Dare writes what I fondly refer to as Historical Fantasy Romance. There is *some* historically accurate details running through her narrative but they are very thin and often bent to suit her plot needs. In the second outing in the Girl Meets Duke series we’re following Alex Mountbatten, introduced in The Duchess Deal, who makes her living by setting clocks to Greenwich Mean Time. Following a terrible, and hysterically inappropriate interview for a governess position she doesn’t realize she’s being interviewed for, Alex […]

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9/23/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:46 |

Yes, dear ones, the book was indeed better. (CBR10 Bingo)

The Silkworm (Cormoran Strike #2) by Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling, pseudonym), Robert Glenister (narrator)

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Since I missed the world of Cormoran Strike, when the television show was announced I knew I would do my best to track it down. It wasn’t easy in the States without a Cinemax subscription, but I sent a plea to my brother and he managed to procure the series for me. Talk about perfect timing for The Book Was Better? bingo square. Most people can’t reread mystery novels; once they know the ending the book loses its ability to hold their interest. Because my brain apparently doesn’t hold onto the salient details the mystery is often new again to […]

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9/22/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:45 |

“All that surrounds us comes from death, every part of every city, and every part of every person.” (CBR10Bingo)

From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty (writer), Landis Blair (illustrator)

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Two years ago I read and truly enjoyed Caitlin Doughty’s debut book, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, which chronicled her journey from someone curious about the business of death into an advocate for seeking out what she terms “the good death” and changing the funerary business as it is now in the United States.  Besides being an interesting story about her life, the book is basically a treatise about making death a part of your life, of staring down your fears and accepting that death itself is natural, but the death anxiety of our modern culture is not. I wasn’t […]

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9/18/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:44 |

Balogh Gives Us Young Love (CBR10Bingo)

The Arrangement (Survivors Club #2) by Mary Balogh

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I have stuff going on in my personal life right now (as do we all from time to time) so I found myself ready to check out of reality for a bit and sink into a safely fictional reality where things end happily. Off to Romancelandia I went to visit Mary Balogh’s Survivors’ Club and check off the Brain Candy square for bingo. The Arrangement is the second book in the series, and I’ll admit that I was a bit put off by which characters were going to be our focus having enjoyed the romance of people in their thirties […]

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9/13/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:43 |

This Book Could Have Been Any Number of Bingo Squares (CBR10Bingo)

The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt

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I have an enormous backlog. My Goodreads account tells me as of today, I have 649 books on my Want to Read shelf. I still have 62 that I added on the day I joined, January 6, 2012 during my first year participating in Cannonball Read 4. What better book to knock off the Backlog square than something I was introduced to in my first week of Cannonball Read and has been languishing for more than six years on Mount TBR (and has a movie adaptation coming out later this month). The Sisters Brothers of the story are Charlie and […]

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9/9/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:42 |


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