Cannonball Read 11

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These hoes ain’t loyal (banned books, bingo)

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

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Um. No. I’m champagne taste on a beer budget incarnate, but it’s never led me to cheat on and bankrupt an adoring spouse. I am bougie as hell in some ways but I’m not about to let my kid go without so I can have luxury. I may have debt but I’m not about to turn a blind eye to it by paying off credit with more credit. I love a good fantasy but I know where reality’s hard border is. Fuuuuuuck you, Emma Bovary. I get why this was banned, even if it’s hilariously tame to the modern reader. […]

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9/13/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:72 |

“Where do you get coins like that?” “In Pairs.” (double bingo, Two heads are better than one)

Mort by Terry Pratchett

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Despite having read The Color of Magic my first day of college, adoring Good Omens, and in general living up to every nerd stereotype, I never got into the Discworld series. So for my dual review, I asked my husband, a major Discworld fan, to recommend a good entry point and discuss the book with me. Apparently much of the internet agrees with the octospouse that this is a good one to start on, and while I did enjoy it, it may have been a better entry for someone completely ignorant of the series. I read the book thinking it […]

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9/6/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:71 |

And exhausted is my patience. (back to school, bingo)

Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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I was hoping that re-reading this might make me more apt to like it; after all, it’s been eleven years since I graduated college and this is seen as one of Fitzgerald’s masterworks. But yeah, after MeToo there is no WAY I’m feeling anything resembling sympathy for Dick Diver, the worst psychiatrist in history.  There’s actually a line in flashback where Dick states his aspiration to be the world’s best psychiatrist and his partner thinks he’s joking and laughs; I laughed too because HE MARRIES HIS PATIENT. A couple of chapters later he is “accused” of seducing another patient and […]

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9/6/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:70 |

The wife stuff (bingo, true story)

The Astronaut Wives Club by Lily Koppel

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As I was mentally writing my review for this book midway through it, I realized that my only complaint was that it wasn’t a The Right Stuff -length piece. At first I was thinking how if Koppel focused only on the Mercury astronaut wives, we could have learned so much more about them in greater depth, but then we would have missed the differing responses to the Apollo One tragedies in Pat White, consumed by her husband’s loss, and Martha Chaffee’s fortitude in moving on. (That perhaps sounds judgmental, but rest assured, I see far more of myself in Pat).  […]

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8/30/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:69 |

Birthday bingo

The Night Women by Sara Blaedel

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One day I will learn that remaindered books are not always the bargain I think they are because you’re only saving money on something cheap if you actually want it. I’m not the brightest in that regard. At least this is a good selection for my birthday bingo card; the author was born 8/6 and the book prominently features an abandoned newborn. I’m not one for mysteries typically, but I had just finished Tana French’s The Trespasser and realized I was nearing the end of her oeuvre, so I figured that as Blaedel had a series of books she had […]

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8/29/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:68 |

Not stopped, just slow.

How to Stop Time by Matt Haig

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Yet again I am sucked into buying a book because of its cover. But look at it, it’s so pretty! And the back cover has a blurb from Neil Gaiman! I love Gaiman so much that I don’t even mind knockoff Gaiman, so I was hopeful this would be a nice little sci-fi jaunt with the gothic twists he’s expert at. For someone who loves book covers so much, I sure don’t read the actual relevant information on them. This isn’t about time travel (well, any more than forward at the rate of one second per second like the rest […]

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8/28/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:67 |

Better get used to those bar graphs, kid

Cribsheet by Emily Oster

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Apparently it’s economist week at Octothorp’s cannonball read. Emily Oster’s Expecting Better was one of those shibboleths of motherhood that I didn’t even realize existed until I had the octolet, and I fell for it hard. (I felt like I stumbled on a Stonecutters meeting when I was about to give birth. Old friends came out of the woodwork to welcome me to the club, and parents of toddlers were like vampires at the prospect of a) new parent friends and b) someone who was getting even less sleep than they were. I didn’t even realize there was a club […]

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8/23/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:66 |

Good bang for the buck

Payoff by Dan Ariely

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Strange to read such similar books back to back, but doing so highlights how much better Payoff is than the similar Drive I reviewed in my last CBR post. Both are short explorations of what motivates people, and how the simple answer (money) is often not the correct one. Payoff is even shorter than Drive was, having stemmed from a TED talk, but it feels more fully realized than the longer book as Ariely explores the same topic more thoroughly. He’s an engaging writer, and connects the abstract ideas of motivating factor to vivid concrete examples. When he discusses the […]

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8/23/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:65 |


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