The time has come, a table has become available at the Ritz, so let’s sit down and chat about Good Omens, both the television show and the book. First, some boilerplate: for those of you who might be joining in for #CannonBookClub for the first time (hello new friends!) all are welcome. The topics are numbered, and we ask that you refer to them below by that number to help people find the conversation topics they are looking for. If you are responding to someone else’s thoughts, please try to reply directly to them and also tell us about your own […]
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“Claim your power, and bring along your full humanity.”
Wolfpack: How to Come Together, Unleash Our Power, and Change the Game by Abby Wambach
One of the weird things about me is that I *enjoy* attending graduation ceremonies. I can understand why others don’t like attending them – they can be very long and require us to sit in uncomfortable locations but there’s something about watching people I love accomplish something and be recognized for it that makes my heart happy. Because I’m a human full of contradictions I hated attending my own graduations. All of them were pure torture. One of the quintessential parts of graduations is the commencement addresses. I’ve read one before but I wasn’t expecting to read another. Abby Wambach’s […]
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6/13/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:24 | 
| Tags: Abby Wambach, Wolfpack, women in sports | Category: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction, Sports | 0 Comments
“We are all of us more complicated than the roles we are assigned in the stories other people tell”
Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
A couple of months ago I read American Like Me and focused my review on how the various contributors wrote and reflected on the way their lives hopped boundaries or existed on the edge of multiple cultures. In Educated Tara Westover is doing a deep dive of her own, very personal, journey of leaving one culture (that of her father) and exploring the cultures of more mainstream Mormonism and mainstream America. It is not a perfect book, and to my mind Westover chose an interesting time in her life to reckon with her lived experience to this degree and this […]
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6/6/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:23 | | Tags: #memoir, Educated, faintingviolet, read women, Tara Westover | Category: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction | 0 Comments
Reminder! Good Omens Show Discussion This Weekend!
Hello Lovely Cannonballers! Dropping in to remind everyone that we’ll be gathering for our second chat THIS weekend to talk about the Good Omens show adaptation on Amazon. It’s another chance to talk about the book in case you missed May’s Discussion post and a chance to talk specifically about what we all think about the choices made in translating the book into a six-hour television experience. On Friday evening, June 14th, MsWas and myself will be chatting LIVE in our Cannonball Read Book Chat Facebook group at 7:30 p.m. Eastern, and I’ll be posting a Discussion Post here earlier in […]
“And never underestimate the importance of even just a little bit of progress.”
Unf*ck Your Habitat: You're Better than Your Mess by Rachel Hoffman
I’ve intended to read this book for some time. Down in the depths of my depression fellow Cannonballer Siege mentioned on Facebook one of Rachel Hoffman’s tips to Unf*ck Tomorrow Morning – put a little toilet cleaner in the bowl before bed. It was such a small thing, but cleaning my bathroom had become my Impossible Task and it helped get that under control that week and lift the cloud of depression just a little bit. I knew instinctively that any author who would a) think to write that help category and b) get that specific was someone who could […]
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5/23/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:22 | | Tags: Ale, cleaning, emmalita, faintingviolet, impossible task, Rachel Hoffman, Siege, Unf*ck Your Habitat | Category: Health, Non-Fiction | 4 Comments
“But because the universe is a cat, and I am but a fuzzy ball of string”
Dating You/Hating You by Christina Lauren
This is a case of its me, not the book. I see all the positive things in this book that have made it so well reviewed here at Cannonball Read but I still just can’t get myself to settle in and enjoy it. After nearly a month off and on I’ve given myself permission to walk away for now. I might come back to it at some point – I really do like the characters and plot framework the authors are working with – but now is not that time and there are too many other books perched on my […]
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Book Club Discussion Post: Good Omens
It is that time friends, our first #CannonBookClub of the year is officially underway. Good Omens is getting the television adaption treatment, but first it will get the Cannonballer experience – assuming we all survive the apocalypse of course. Ground rules remain the same as they always have. For those of you who might be joining in for #CannonBookClub for the first time (hello new friends!) all are welcome. The topics are numbered, and we ask that you refer to them below by that number to help people find the conversation topics they are looking for. If you are responding […]
“Life offers up these moments of joy despite everything,”
Normal People by Sally Rooney
It has been a long time since I absolutely demolished a novel in less than 24 hours. I had waited months for my turn to come up on the library hold list for Normal People so a soon as I officially finished Good Omens I ignored the other books sitting on my kitchen table and settled in to see what jeverett15 and dAvid experienced that led them both to rating it so highly. I very quickly understood and am myself rating it five stars, rounding up. This book has a seemingly simple premise: rich disaffected girl and popular working-class boy […]
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5/12/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:20 | | Tags: faintingviolet, Normal People, read harder challenge, reading women 2019, Sally Rooney | Category: Fiction | 1 Comment