Cannonball Read 11

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Meh. (yes, that’s literally the best title I can come up with for this one)

Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis

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After reading Cannonballer Niki’s review of this book earlier this month, it cemented my decision to NOT read it. I had been wavering until that point; it kept being recommended to me as a “life changing read, like, omg”, but something about it never really sat right with me. Then I read Niki’s review, and it articulated & confirmed my hesitations, and I removed it from my Amazon ‘Save for later’ list (where it had been living for months). And then a bunch of women in my book club wanted to read it. And then my sister-in-law gifted me with […]

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1/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:3 |

Eleanor Oliphant is not at all what I expected.

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

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Despite this book being raved about by so many, and making an appearance on tons of “My Favourite Books” lists, I had no idea what it was about. I picked it up on a whim during a long road trip when I just wasn’t feeling the books that I had packed (THIS is why you always overpack books, people!). From the description on the back cover, I was expecting an easy-breezy, chick lit style book about a quirky-but-loveable character – and initially that’s what it appeared to be.  Eleanor is a slightly odd 30-year old woman who lives a solitary, […]

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1/5/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:2 |

Ringing in the New Year with Inspector Gamache <3

Kingdom of the Blind by Louise Penny

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Well, CBR10 was an epic disaster for me (I think I reviewed one book? maybe?), but we’re going to give ‘er another go this year. And what better way to kick things off than with the latest instalment in the Inspector Gamache series. There are very few books that I pre-order and am willing to pay full price for the hardcover immediate release. This series is one of those exceptions. This is the 14th book to date, and I can’t stress enough that you should go back and start from the beginning, because the beauty is not just in the […]

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1/2/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:1 |

Alternate title: How Millionaires Grieve

Option B by Sheryl Sandberg

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I really really wanted to love this book.  I picked it up after hearing Sandberg, Facebook’s COO, speak at a conference last summer.  I found her to be an engaging speaker and I immediately picked up her two books, hoping for more of the same.   In Option B, she talks primarily about unexpectedly losing her husband and how she has coped since his death.  The book’s subtitle, “Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy”, leads one to believe that the lessons she learned can be applied to all adverse situations.  In reality, she spoke mostly about grief.   While […]

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1/13/2018 's CBR10 Review No:2 |

More like cutting my heart….

Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

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Oh hello there.  Well CBR9 was a bit of a bust for me, in that life got crazy and I read exactly one book in Nov/Dec.  ugh.  But let’s give it a go again! I’m starting off this year with a book club pick, Cutting For Stone…and yeah, it was great. After an unfortunate reading hiatus, and a crazy holiday, this was a great book to get lost in. Marion & Shiva are identical twins born to a nun in Ethiopia at the missionary hospital where she works.  When she tragically dies in childbirth and their assumed father abandons them, […]

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1/6/2018 's CBR10 Review No:1 |

Are people really like this? Really? In real life?

The Lying Game by Ruth Ware

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 So, immediately after reading The Break, I needed a palette cleanser – something a bit more mindless and light.  This hit the spot for that.   A fairly generic mystery that was entertaining, but it wasn’t a complete home run for me. The Lying Game is about four friends who are living their separate lives in England, all while hiding a secret that they have been lying about since they were in high school together.  When something threatens to expose their secret, they come together to protect their story and to support each other. I have a similar issue with […]

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10/10/2017 's CBR9 Review No:36 |

Really, nothing compares to the bonds between women…

The Break by Katharine Vermette

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 The Break was a recent book club selection that was part of being intentional about not just reading yet another novel about white, middle-class North Americans in their 30’s.   2017 has been about intentionally divresifying the reading list, and man, aren’t we all just better for that? This book is set in Winnipeg, Manitoba and focuses on a Metis family (and their friends) dealing with several crises in each of their lives.  The chapters focus alternately on several members of the family from various generations, as their stories overlap and intersect.   There is a heartbreaking crime at the […]

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10/10/2017 's CBR9 Review No:35 |

Vive Gamache!!

Glass Houses by Louise Penny

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 I’ve been waiting for months for this to be released, and was so excited when the latest Inspector Gamache novel arrived on my doorstep!! I’ll try to not post too many spoilers, as I know there are other CBR’s working through the series. Gamache has been named Chief Superintendent of the Sureté and has taken on the daunting task of bringing down a drug cartel who is smuggling across the Canadian-American border. While this is happening, there is an unsettling murder that happens in Three Pines. Aaaaand that’s about all I can say. :/ As with all the books in […]

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9/22/2017 's CBR9 Review No:34 |


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