Cannonball Read 11

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It’s a library book about libraries!!

The Library Book by Susan Orlean

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Once again, I didn’t know what I was reading until I opened it and silly me had assumed this was a novel. But it was SO MUCH BETTER. Also that I got it from my library. That made me happy too. The Library Book is a chronicling of the history of the Los Angeles Public Library, focused around the 1986 fire that raged for seven hours and destroyed hundreds of thousands of books. It’s just as horrifying as it sounds and it has been impossible to pin down if it was accidental or arson or in any way how (or really […]

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6/13/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:46 |

I am really unsure how I feel about this book

We Cast A Shadow by Maurice Carlos Ruffin

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So, We Cast A Shadow is … a book. It was not one I enjoyed reading but that does not mean it was a bad book. I found the writing stilted and the characters a little flat, but my discomfort with the writing may have overly soured me on more than that. The book takes place in an all-too-plausible American hellscape, like a Jeff Sessions wet dream. Black America is haunted by deliberate over-policing and every insidious aspect of institutional racism we see today is amplified to a horrifyingly logical extent. It’s today’s world with the volume turned up a notch […]

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6/11/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:45 |

Tell yourself its fiction and you’ll feel better

The Overstory by Richard Powers

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This book took me by complete surprise. To start with, the first third or so is effectively a series of maybe-kind-of-if-you-squint linked short stories – and I loved them. I’ve written time and time again here how I’m not really a short story person but this part of the book changed me. They were just gorgeous. I loved the tree theme that carried through and how it was different and unique and beautiful to each and I was telling absolutely everyone how good it was and how they needed to pick it up immediately. For the most part I stand […]

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6/4/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:44 |

Bangkok wakes to past, present, future

Bangkok Wakes to Rain by Pitchaya Sudbanthad

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I found this book hard to start but easy to finish. Once I was able to step back and take the time to dive fully into it, I appreciated it much much more. Bangkok Wakes to Rain is a beautiful book that deserves more than superficial attention. The novel tells multiple stories across multiple timelines and tells about the places in which they interweave. These stories take place in mid-nineteenth century Siam and they take place decades in our own future, they take place in our present and our near past. It’s the same city through multiple lenses. Once you get […]

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5/28/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:43 |

A blink-and-you’ll-miss-it kind of book

His Favorites by Kate Walbert

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This one just across the board felt unsatisfying and falls sharply in the category of “why did I read that”. Maybe I just wasn’t in the right place to read a depressing story about a teenage girl. As I make my own Arya Stark-like list of “Alabama, Missouri, Georgia, Ohio” I just didn’t want to spend a few hours witnessing yet another abuse of a young girl without the tools to defend herself. I dunno. This is a story about a young woman named Jo. She’s 15, has two best friends, and it’s the mid-1980s. Surely nothing can go wrong, […]

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5/22/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:42 |

Freaking stellar debut novel

Tinfoil Crowns by Erin Jones

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Full disclosure: The author is a close friend, my former roommate, and one of my bridesmaids. I have every reason in the world to be partial and biased in favor of this book but the great news is that I don’t need to be because it is utterly fantastic. I honestly kept forgetting that I had a personal connection to the writer – Tinfoil Crowns so quickly felt like something I would have pulled for myself. Uuuggghh you guys I’m just so proud-happy-excited. Erin is just stupid talented and deserves every excellent review this book is getting. Let me get […]

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5/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:41 |

Super blah, but I still got choked up at the end

The Light Between The Oceans by M. L. Stedman

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The Light Between the Oceans kept popping up as “recommended” for me so I finally gave in and read it. And it’s not a bad book, it’s just not my kind of book. The circumstances and setting are fascinating but ultimately I was more than happy to move on to my next read. Good for someone, not for me. The primary characters of this book are a lighthouse keeper, Tom, and his young wife, Isabelle. He has taken the posting on Janus Island, a hundred miles of the western coast of Australia (this Janus Island is fictional. A quick google […]

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5/15/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:40 |

A delightful read for at home by yourself

The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang

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This book has been much reviewed here over at CBR and I probably won’t be adding much except: don’t read this at work. This book does not fade to black and you will feel weird about it. This is a book for reading at home while your partner is out of town and you are curled up on the couch with a glass of wine. That is the perfect scenario for The Kiss Quotient. The plot boils down to – Stella is 30 years old, professional successful, and when she measures herself against her peers, seemingly behind in the dating department. […]

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5/15/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:39 |


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