Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

I Don’t Need the New York Times to Give Me Permission to Think Critically About a Billion Dollar Genre, When They So Obviously Cannot

Once Upon A Rose (La Vie en Roses #1) by Laura Florand

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One sometimes needs a palate cleanser. If that one is me, that is almost always a Romance novel. I am one of the millions of people who read, enjoy, and think about the genre, its tropes, and look forward to the reliability of a happy ending. (With the exception of a few descriptors I am an amazingly average Romance reader.) The world around us is falling apart quicker than we can patch the cracks. Sometimes we need to refuel with a guarantee. I finished this book almost a week ago and have sat on the review. Why? Well, as I […]

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10/4/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:55 |

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”

A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf, Juliet Stevenson (narrator)

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I think I keep doing Book Riot’s Read Harder challenges because they do force me to look through my epic list of books to read and get out of my own comfort zone and read with more variety. I have many startling gaps in my reading history, and Virginia Woolf’s entire oeuvre is one. I have seen or read exactly one of Woolf’s works before reading A Room of One’s Own (Orlando at the Yale School of Drama about 8 years ago while a friend was there). Other than her ties to the Bloomsbury Group and the Dreadnought Hoax and […]

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9/29/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:54 |

Banned Book Week Selection: Are you kidding me this was the most challenged book of 2016? Has everyone lost their minds?

This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki & Jillian Tamaki

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Each year, I try to read a frequently challenged or banned book during Banned Books Week (September 24-30). I have very particular feelings about the concept of banning or suppressing works of fiction because they do not fit into a particular worldview (I’m staunchly against it). Do I think every book should have an audience and be read? Probably not. However, I do believe in our ability to choose for ourselves what we should read, and that banning or challenging books which only serve to widen our understanding of the world and people around us is shameful. For the life […]

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9/28/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:53 |

A Gamache Cannonball

The Beautiful Mystery (Inspector Gamache #8) by Louise Penny, Ralph Cosham (narrator)

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It turns out that this year’s Cannonball book is an Inspector Gamache book, and that seems oddly fitting. I have chosen to spread out the Inspector Armand Gamache books instead of mainlining them. I read them in the seasons they are set, and it always proves to be something to look forward to. Following the disappointment of In Praise of Hatred I needed a comfort read, and Gamache is that for me. Luckily enough, autumn in northern Quebec is now, so we were all set. Louise Penny stretches as an author in each book, and is often trying something new. […]

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9/27/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:52 |

Allowing Humanity and Complexity to Coexist

Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay

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I have read many reviews of Roxane Gay’s Bad Feminist over the past few years, and I still don’t know if I really understood what I was getting myself into. But that isn’t a bad thing. At its core, this is a book about Gay coming into herself, and owning exactly who she is, without reservation. She walks the reader through her outlook, her struggles as a woman in the world to live up to being a feminist, or not wanting to be associated with people who create a negative perception for the rest of us. As she puts it, […]

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9/24/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:51 |

Such a Disappointment

In Praise of Hatred by Khaled Khalifa

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One of the rewards of being the book club maven is that I have to be on the lookout for books outside of my comfort zone. In my bio (which you can see just down there) I describe myself as someone who reads everything, just some types of books more frequently than others. That applies to proper Literary Fiction as well. More often than not, I’m rolling around in the genres. However, I try to give the people what they want and there were several requests for Non-Western Literature, which led me to a few weeks of research, several books […]

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9/14/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:50 |

Book Club Discussion Post: In Praise of Hatred

In Praise of Hatred by Khaled Khalifa

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Welcome to our third book club chat of the year: In Praise of Hatred by Khaled Khalifa. I’m interested to hear what everyone’s reading experiences were like with this book. Ground rules remain the same as they always have. For those of you who might be joining us for the first time (hello new friends!) all are welcome. All of our 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 respond directly […]

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9/13/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:0 |

Discussion Topics: In Praise of Hatred

In Praise of Hatred by Khaled Khalifa

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Our September book club is coming up quickly, we’re just two weeks away. Our non-western literary fiction choice In Praise of Hatred by Khaled Khalifa has lots for the reader to absorb and think about. Our group chat about this book will get going around 2 p.m. Eastern on Wednesday September 13th, both here and in our Facebook group, the Book Chat. Book Club is open to anyone and everyone. If there’s a topic, thought or opinion you’d like to see addressed, leave a comment down below and I’ll see what I can do about getting it included in the main post […]

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8/31/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:0 |


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