We are just one week away from our next meeting of our Cannonball Book Club! It will begin on Friday September 17th when we’ll have Discussion Posts here for each of our selections, The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden, Deerskin by Robin McKinley, Sea Witch by Sarah Henning, and Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson. We will also be talking on our Social Media platforms, and of course in our Facebook group, Cannonball Read Book Chat, we’ll have some additional prompts […]
Another story I didn’t know existed, a perfect author for the Gateway square
A Good Heretic (Wayfarers #0.5) by Becky Chambers
There are a handful of authors that I am simply delighted Cannonball Read has put on my reading radar. Becky Chambers is absolutely one of those. Her The Wayfarers series helped to cement for me my enjoyment of space based science fiction, while simultaneously reaffirming that one doesn’t need to rely on the hero’s journey in order to write excellent genre fiction. My favorite genre books are all character driven, and that is just the kind of exploration and survival stories at which Chambers excels. […]
A Self-Care Treat for Me
The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay & Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's novel to film by Emma Thompson
The 1995 movie adaptation of Sense and Sensibility is maybe my favorite movie adaptation ever and is certainly in my top five movies of all time. I will watch it when I’m happy, when I’m sad, when I’m wistful, when I’m tired. It makes my heart happy and is one of my go to tools in the self-care toolbox. While I have read many Austen related books in my time with Cannonball I had never poked around into books about the movie adaptations. Then in […]
I really want to go to the Dark Forest at Sugar Fair – why does it have to be fictional?
Battle Royal by Lucy Parker
I absolutely adored Lucy Parker’s London Celebrities series and was excited to get my hands on the first book in her next series, Battle Royal. How could I not be excited for a book where the introduction to our protagonists involves a confectionary unicorn hoof hitting one of them on the forehead mid-judging of a televised baking competition? After that first meeting four years ago Sylvie Fairchild has gone on to open her own bakery, Sugar Fair, across the street from Dominic De Vere’s eponymous […]
“The wind blows itself out, and dawn comes to the window cold and still in a clear gold-green.”
The Searcher by Tana French
I waited to pick up a Tana French novel even though she is highly regarded around these parts. Late last year I commented on narfna’s review that I was hesitant to pick up another author who writes an ongoing series (I’ve got the Inspector Gamache books to contend with) and that’s true enough. But I think another component was that I knew French wrote gritty, hard-boiled crime novels and I just wasn’t in the mood for those, no matter the quality of the writing (the […]
CannonBookClub Fairy Tales & Adaptations Announcement
Discussion posts are live, see below. The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden Deerskin by Robin McKinley Sea Witch by Sarah Henning Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson Book Club Details Continuing our feel-good goals with #CannonBookClub in 2021 we’ve landed on Fairy Tales and Adaptations as our theme for our September meeting. With that in mind our Book Club team has decided on a shortlist of four books to choose from, highlighting different genres and original tales. September 17-18, 2021 Book Choices […]
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