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Escobar minus Escobar

Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras

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One of the first things this book made me realize was that I had watched Narcos all wrong. I’d thought that the title referred to the DEA agents, I guess I was thinking “narcs” or “narcotics officers”. But the word narcos stands for narcotraficantes – the traffickers. Makes sense. The show was about Pablo Escobar, not the other guys. Fruit of the Drunken Tree is the story not of the agents or the traffickers, but of the Colombian citizens caught in the crossfire. In her debut novel, Ingrid Rojas Contreras tells the story of the Colombia she remembers, only mildly fictionalizing her […]

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7/19/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:62 |

It had been too long since I read this

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

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I dug my first copy of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy out of my Christmas stocking when I was probably twelve years old. My dad had been telling me the story (mostly his favorite part, Restaurant at the End of the Universe’s “Meet Your Meat”) for years but finally gifted me a copy. I was sold on the cover copy alone: “The first in the increasingly inaccurately named Hitchhiker’s trilogy”. I loved it then, I love it now, and I loved it when my high school put it on our required summer reading list (BOOM!) It’s so good. It’s so clever. It’s […]

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7/18/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:61 |

Well, it didn’t scare me off MY wedding

Strangers and Cousins by Leah Hager Cohen

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I’m calling Strangers and Cousins a “summer read” because it’s largely about a family gathering for a wedding and that feels like a quintessential beach read to me. I’m getting married this fall and am already kind of dreading the unavoidable deluge of distant relatives, so it also felt a little personal, up until the point I started reading it. Cohen may have been better served had she pared things down a bit. There’s a wedding AND the town is in crisis AND the parents may sell the house AND the mom is pregnant again AND the family matriarch is old […]

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7/17/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:60 |

This Cannonballer says read it

Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams

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This had been on my list and then I saw that a number of Cannonballers had read it before me (namely, lumenatrix and scootsa1000) and then I SUPER wanted to read it. Other reviewers give it kind of a Bridget Jones-y feel but, never having read or watched those, I picked up on some similarities with, of all things, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine. Mostly in its mental health angles, but you might see what I mean. Or I might be totally off base. I also loooooove orange covers. Anyway. Queenie! Our titular character is 25, working in digital publishing, lives in […]

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7/11/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:59 |

Life is stressful, I want easy books

Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday

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I kind of wanted to claim this one as “The Collection” but it’s only three stories and two of them are connected, so that felt like cheating. Much like I felt cheated out of a good time reading this book. I think I’ve just got too much going on in my life and all I want are engaging, easy reads. Or even just engaging. So, Asymmetry. Makes kind of sense. There are three stories in here but one of them is fifty perfect of the book. It and the second story are about seriously asymmetrical balances of power. I dunno how […]

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7/10/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:58 |

I only finished it because I hate giving up

The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt

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Insult to injury, I can’t find a bingo category for this one. Anyway. The Last Samurai, by Helen DeWitt. Apparently first published in 2000, I guess it started popping up again recently because it was put back into print. The gist is that it sent me running for the Cannonball FAQs to see at what point I could throw in the towel, but then it started to be a little less insufferable so I finished it. Not a good enough reason, as it turns out. I found myself continually wondering if I was really that dumb or the book was really […]

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7/10/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:57 |

I forgot these started so bro-y

Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey

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I’ve extrapolated previously about how much I love this series but going back to book one and there’s part of me that’s astonished I made it any further. The later books do a masterful job of shifting perspectives but for this first one we only get two – Holden and Miller – and with Holden being the milquetoastiest of all milquetoasts, Miller is the driving personality. And then he goes and falls in love with a dead girl he’s never met. The ick factor is high. I didn’t even fully grasp how bad that limited perspective was until Caliban’s War cold […]

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6/28/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:56 |

I am a purist

A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin

A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin

A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin

A Feast for Crows by George R. R. Martin

A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin

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Is it fair to do a single review for all five A Song of Ice and Fire novels? Probably not, but I reread the series basically as a single unit and can no longer tell what happened in which book, so here we go. I love these books – yes, all five. Yes, that includes A Feast for Crows – and am a staunch better-than-the-show purist. I get really annoying about it and my fiance has just learned to smile and nod and ever since I found the r/pureasoiaf subreddit I’ve been a happier person. And I’m always happier digging back […]

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6/25/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:55 |


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