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:

A Story in Seven Parts

Midwinterblood by Marcus Sedgwick

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I can’t remember where I heard about this book, but it was on my to-read list on my account with the library, and since it was there I figured why not! And this was an interesting experience of a book for sure. I was referring to it as back-half-Cloud-Altas but that’s not quite right… Midwinterblood is essentially a series of seven little vignettes or short stories that are all connected in some way, and all take place on the same small island with its many mysteries and magic. We begin with a journalist, Eric, coming to the island in search […]

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5/12/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:20 |

Coming to Realize that I Really Do Love Sports Stories

Fence, volume 1 by C.S. Pacat and Johanna the Mad

Fence, volume 2 by C.S. Pacat and Johanna the Mad

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As per narfna’s suggestion in a glowing review of the first volume of Fence, I waited until there was at least a second volume out: and it still seemed to go by far too quickly! At least the next one is scheduled to be released in August which isn’t too far away, I guess… In any case, this comic series is a super cute and fun one, about a sport I haven’t seen featured much in sports movies/books, etc. There are definitely some familiar features to this as a “sports story”, and do I feel like I know a lot […]

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5/12/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:19 |

Conversations with Ourselves Through Conversations with Art

The Museum of Modern Love by Heather Rose

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To be honest this was another one of those books that I picked up at the library because the cover was appealing to me. Upon then seeing the logline that it was inspired by the art of Marina Abramovic, I felt compelled to check it out: you see, I did a big project about her back in art school (as a part of our history of performance art unit), and at the time didn’t really get what it was about her work that drew so many people in, but there was definitely still something resonating with me. And from time […]

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5/7/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:17 |

They’ve Even Got a Not-Quite-Talking-But-Very-Expressive Dog!

Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero

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Like a mashup of the teen detective gang in Scooby Doo with the return-to-what-still-haunts-you-in-your-home-town vibes of It, Meddling Kids brings us a club of teenagers who would solve mysteries in their town over the summer; 13 years later, however, and their once-bright futures are all anything but, as the remaining members of the club all still affected by the last case they did together in some way or another. Their final case seemed straightforward enough, finding a man in a mask imitating an old legend of a lake monster in town as a way to scare people off as he […]

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4/25/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:16 |

Easy Breezy Steampunk Mystery-Romance

Timekeeper by Tara Sim

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Timekeeper is a YA novel set in England in the late 1800s, with some historical (mostly, inventions, etc) aspects played with by the author for her version of this world: it has a very steampunk feel to it, and this is only added to by the fact that clocks play a huge role in the story. The clock-towers effectively control and guide the towns around them, and our young protagonist, Danny, is a mechanic of these clocks who can feel the threads of time acutely. He is working towards trying to be a major mechanic at a new clock that […]

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4/22/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:15 |

A Love Letter to the Women Forgotten After Deemed No Longer Useful, Tucked Inside a Love-Hate Letter to a Hometown

The Melting Queen by Bruce Cinnamon

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Honestly, I’m probably a little biased with this one, and writing a review feels a little strange because not only was it written by an old pal of mine from high school but it is also quite a love-hate letter to the city I live (albeit a somewhat fictional one), Edmonton, which doesn’t always get much of a feature in a lot of the things I read or watch (though one of my previous reads this year, Birdie, did include the city as a part of the protagonists’ larger journey). There’s a familiarity to the locations and settings and feelings […]

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4/4/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:14 |

Almost is Never Enough

The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton

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This book had all the ingredients to be very interesting, and it almost got there: almost. Unfortunately, after sludging through a pretty slow first-half which didn’t engage me very much, it drew me back in with some interesting twists, only to then fizzle out again. The whole thing just left me feeling cold, a large part of which I think had to do with how impenetrable I found the protagonist, Nella: I felt like she was being kept at an arms length and just couldn’t crack her. The Miniaturist follows a young woman in 17th century Amsterdam named Petronella (or Nella): she […]

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3/26/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:13 |

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 |


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