Cannonball Read 11

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Lisa Bee

Heading into my 7th year participating in Cannonball Read with CBR11! Catch me doing most of my reading while waiting for customers to come in to work.

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Lisa Bee's Reviews:

I Have Heard of This Book So Many Times Without Ever Actually Knowing What It Contained

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

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I’m not sure where to begin with Jeffrey Eugenides’ Middlesex, simply because there is so much to it: spanning across the story of three generations in a family, the story takes place over many years, as the protagonist, Cal, recounts how he came to be, and how his life shaped who he is now through a long history of family and discovery. We begin in 1922 in Greece, where Cal’s grandparents first begin their relationship under intense shame due to the fact that they are siblings. When their town is attacked by Turkey, they choose to flee to America and […]

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3/13/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:12 |

A Little Bit of a Fleeting Feeling

We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

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I foolishly left the library book I was working my way through at work, and wouldn’t be back for at least a week, so I looked for something that seemed like it would be easy breezy to hold me over until we were reunited again. I chose We Were Liars, which ended up being a quick and not too difficult read, fun at times but also emotional. I can’t say that I totally connected with it, however, and I wasn’t entirely sold on the ending: not because it doesn’t work but because after a certain reveal, it seemed like some […]

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2/28/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:11 |

Truth Be Told I Don’t Know How to Review Poetry…

Selected Poems by John Keats

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I’m not exactly sure how to go about this review because poetry is not exactly something I read often (at all, really), nor do I know much about it, so everything here will be coming from a place of very little knowledge. So then why did I choose to read this collection of poems? Because I had an itch to try something not really in my comfort zone, you know, branch out to some new forms and see how it goes. And why John Keats? Well you see, I absolutely adore Ben Whishaw and was watching Bright Star wherein he […]

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2/19/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:10 |

You Want Something Fun, Fast, and Adorable? You Like Bros, Baking, and Hockey? Well Here You Go!

Check, Please! Book 1: Hockey by Ngozi Ukazu

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I honestly can’t tell you why I haven’t gotten into Ngozi Ukazu’s web-comic series Check, Please! before (this book is just the first 2-years of the protagonist’s story compiled into one volume), because I know I’ve heard good things about it before, and upon finally reading it I can say that I really did enjoy it a lot! It is super cute, with a lively and clean art style, and is about nice hockey bros just being bros?? Love that. Yeah, maybe it’s a little predictable at times, but I don’t mind at all as I was excited to see […]

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2/15/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:9 |

Trauma, and the Trudging On Towards Healing

Birdie by Tracey Lindberg

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This is a bit of a difficult one to parse out my feelings: as a novel, Birdie has a lot of empathy and power in it, delving into an extremely human and complicated character that has had to deal with a lot of extremely difficult things. That is not to say that it is completely humorless, as there is some fun sprinkled into this book, but it is not exactly a fun read based on the subject matter. Yet, despite the voice being given towards a character representing an often underrepresented and uncared for group, this novel leaves some things […]

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2/12/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:8 |

But What Goes on With Everyone Else While the Chosen Ones Deal With all the Villain Stuff?

The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness

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I have only read one other novel by Patrick Ness before (also of the YA variety) and did not like it very much, but I had heard good things about The Rest of Us Just Live Here and figured I should give it a shot: as it turns out I found this novel be well worth the read. Despite involving some fantastical elements, these magical components for the most part are only the background of the more human-centric story which the book focuses; at it’s heart, this novel is a very relatable story about figuring out life, love, and relationships […]

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2/4/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:7 |

Super Powered Siblings and Family Issues Going Hand-In-Hand

Umbrella Academy 1: Apocalypse Suite by Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá

Umbrella Academy 2: Dallas by Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá

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I initially read the first 2 volumes of The Umbrella Academy series about 9 or 10 years ago, at which time there was a cover and title for the 3rd coming volume, Hotel Oblivion, but this was not released as issues until this past year. So, in anticipation of finally reading this next instalment, as well as the Netflix series to be released later this month, I figured it was time for a re-read as I remembered very few details. And it was just as wacky and fun as the first time around! The first volume, Apocalypse Suite, shows us […]

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2/2/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:6 |

A Coming-of-Age Mystery

Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey

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Jasper Jones follows a boy named Charlie, a teenager living in a small Australian town known for it’s gossip and the way stories about people get out of hand into a mythology surrounding them. One such object of the town’s disdain is a young outsider, Jasper Jones, who comes to Charlie’s window one night asking for help. Jasper shows Charlie the discovery he made in the woods of a dead young girl named Laura, and fearing that he will be the one blamed for her death, wants Charlie to help him in discovering who killed her. From this initial concept, […]

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1/25/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:4 |


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