Cannonball Read 10

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Lisa Bee

Looks like CBR10 will be my 6th year participating in Cannonball Read! Catch me doing most of my reading while waiting for customers to come in to work.

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“It’s Wrong What They Say About the Past, I’ve Learned, About How you Can Bury it. Because the Past Claws its Way Out.”

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

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My friend and I were talking about books recently, and she said something about how a lot of the things I had been reading lately sounded very depressing. And I sometimes ask myself why I would want to read something about someone’s pain and hurt, which is a question that I can’t always answer, but it often boils down to the fact that the subjects surrounding this pain is usually one of importance, or perhaps despite all the sorrow there is also a piece of hope within these stories that makes you think that maybe not everything is hopeless. I […]

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8/16/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:41 |

“Unbelief is a Terrible Thing, and So is the Hurt we Cause Others Unknowingly”

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

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A couple of years ago I fell in love with the music and voices from the (at that time) currently running broadway revival of The Color Purple, and I realized that while I knew about this book and the subsequent movie adaptation, I had never read nor watched it. But here it fit perfectly into the bingo square for frequently challenged or banned books, so no time like the present. I can’t recall if anyone I knew had read it as a part of our high school curriculum, but I feel like if I had, I really would not have appreciated […]

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8/12/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:40 |

“We Aren’t the Masters of the Earth. We’re the Servants.”

The Orenda by Joseph Boyden

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I wanted to do a little more for the CBR Canada Day reads, but it just didn’t happen. So here, I thought why not cross off a CBR10 bingo square of reading a novel from my home country, but double down and make it related to the history of Canada as well: a historical fiction, but indeed related to missionary communities and tribal warfare in the early 17th century. The great thing about our local library is that all books by Canadian authors will have a little maple leaf sticker on them so they are easy to identify. What I didn’t […]

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8/10/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:39 |

“This Isn’t a Wonderful Place for Boys to Play and Have Adventures”

Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook by Christina Henry

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Earlier this year I read another one of Christina Henry’s novels, The Mermaid, which is also a reimagining of a classic story or myth (in that case, of PT Barnum’s infamous Feejee Mermaid). While it was a good read though not super captivating, upon looking at some of Henry’s other works, I was drawn in by a series of covers for the UK versions of her various novels to date, which included this one pictured for Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook. And you know the junior-high version of myself always rears her little head to get intrigued by any […]

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8/2/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:38 |

No Shade in the Shadow of the Cross

Boy Erased: A Memoir by Garrard Conley

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As you might imagine, this memoir is not a fun one to work through, but that fact doesn’t mean it is not a good or doesn’t have significance. I was drawn to reading it after just finishing a YA novel focused on sexuality in a majority Mormon community, only to see that the trailer for the film adaptation for Boy Erased just dropped. And watching it was a lot to handle at a moment where I was already emotionally compromised, but I figured it would be worth it to read the source material and see just how Garrard Conley’s story […]

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7/23/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:37 |

“This is How We Reveal Ourselves […] the Reactions We Can’t Hide”

Autoboyography by Christina Lauren

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It seems like I’ve been on a bit of a YA romance kick this year, and I think it’s because there is nothing quite like a sweet story about first loves. And this thoughtful novel by writing-duo Christina Lauren delves not only into this area of young love, but also largely focuses on what it means to grow up queer in a largely religious area that doesn’t support this facet of humanity. Autoboygraphy is largely from the point of view of a teenager named Tanner, who moved about 2 years earlier to Provo Utah: back home, he was openly bisexual with […]

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7/16/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:36 |

Children Can Experience Racism at Any Age, So There Isn’t Really Such Thing as Being “Too Young” to Learn About It

Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes

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I could see this book being involved in some good classroom discussions. I can also see certain communities resisting this, and not for the right reasons. From what I can see, Jewell Parker Rhodes’ body of work consists largely of novels dealing with current events and social commentary, aimed at children, and Ghost Boys is no different: in this novel, we follow the spirit of a young black boy named Jerome, after he has been shot by a police officer while playing with a toy gun. Jerome’s spirit both recounts the events leading to the incident, as well as follows […]

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7/12/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:35 |

Oh, the Many Cages We Find Ourselves In

The Mermaid by Christina Henry

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Coincidentally the second piece of media released recently that I’ve taken in having to do with the historical figure of PT Barnum; one more and it’s a pattern. But in The Mermaid, the story is not per say about him, but rather about a fictional recounting of a mermaid who finds herself in his exploitative employ (inspired by the infamous Fiji mermaid hoax). But despite the magical elements therein, this novel is more of an introspective exploration of personhood, freedom, and human cruelty. The Mermaid begins with what almost comes across as an old legend told about one of the inhabitants of […]

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7/11/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:34 |


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