At the tail end of 2015 I listened to my first Romance audio book. It was an interesting experience. Not my favorite, but also not bad. Since I started the Stud Club books that way, with Tessa Dare’s One Dance with a Duke I figured I would continue on that path for the series and picked up Twice Tempted by a Rogue. Then I promptly forgot to read it as I worked through other books this year. When I finished We Should All Be Feminists […]
Thank You, Ellepkay!
I have a soft spot for the community here at Cannonball Read, and it gives me great pleasure to organize our book exchange each year. Pairing up just the right people is a fun challenge. The most awkward part? Sending my own name to someone. It doesn’t stop me though, since I love giving and receiving books. This year Ellepkay nailed it (I have always been very lucky with my gifters!). Not only did I receive a very sweet card (one is on its way […]
“I am angry. We should all be angry. Anger has a long history of bringing about positive change.”
We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Raise your hand if you have been called a feminist as a derisive term. Raise your hand if you have ever had to explain to someone that feminism is, in fact, not the hatred of men or the wishing to take something away from them but rather believing in the social, political, and economic equality of the sexes. Raise both your hands if you’ve experienced that from someone younger than you. My hands are raised. I am, on the best of days, probably a lazy […]
Now Put Your Hands Up
Cannonball Read is the best for getting good books in front of your eyeballs. I read expandingbookshelf’s review of All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation this summer and added the book to my to read list on Goodreads. Then I read Lollygagger’s review early this fall and I put in my library hold. I hope some of you will do the same. I am a single lady in my 30s. I have never been married. I am one […]
It’s Finally Time to Say Goodbye, Dear Count
I have already said many words about The Count of Monte Cristo, since it entered our lives as the final of the four #CannonBookClub choices for 2016. It was a great idea I had, pick 6 books, three male authors and three female, all predating 1920 which had film adaptations, so we could honor our Pajiban roots, and I could easily check a Read Harder Task off the list (I needed to compare and contrast a book with its movie, you see). Thank you, my […]
Book Club Discussion Post: The Count Of Monte Cristo
It is time for our fourth and final #CannonBookClub of 2016. It is my sincerest hope that you have enjoyed this experience, and I look forward to continuing on in 2017. I’m working on genre ideas now, so if you have hopes and dreams of what you’d like to see the group tackle, let me know. But we are really gathered here today to discuss the epic tome which is Alexandre Dumas’ The Count of Monte Cristo. It is the story of one man completely […]
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