Cannonball Read 11

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Rachel

I love to read and would like to get better about reviewing the books I go through every year. Fighting cancer at the same time only makes it better.

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Waiting For the TV Show…

Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid Finished on May 2, took 9 days to read 3 stars on Goodreads Genre: Fiction Rating 2/3 Fiction There were so many reasons why I was excited to read Daisy Jones & the Six. Several of my favorite blogs, podcasts, and friends recommended this book. I loved the author’s earlier novel: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. And most notably, earlier this year Daisy Jones got the ultimate bump when it was featured by Reese Witherspoon’s book club, and now the book is being made into a TV show on Amazon […]

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8/7/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:18 |

A Beautiful and Difficult Novel: Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

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Pachinko – Min Jin Lee Finished on April 23, took 17 days to read 5 stars on Goodreads Genre: Historical Fiction Rating 2/3 Historical Fiction Pachinko is a beautiful and heart-breaking book. The plot extends over multiple decades of one woman’s life: Sunja. Sunja was born in Japanese-occupied Korea, but eventually marries and moves to Japan prior to the outbreak of World War Two. We follow Sunja and her family (four generations) all the way through the 1980s and their lives in Japan. I was completely ignorant of how Koreans were treated in Japan, even after independence. This book was […]

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6/29/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:17 |

If You Live Forever…Maybe Do Something?

Eternal Life by Dara Horn

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Eternal Life – Dara Horn Finished on April 7, took 13 days to read 2 stars on Goodreads Genre: Fiction Rating 2/2 Fiction Well, this was not a good book. Finishing this book convinced me that in addition to keep a list of books I want to read on Goodreads, I need to keep notes on who or what media outlet recommended books to me. That way I can actively avoid recommendations from those sources in the future if I end up disliking a book. So thanks, Eternal Life, for convincing me to get a better recommendation system in place. […]

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6/2/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:16 |

Hope the TV Show Brings This Book to Life

Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid Finished on May 2, took 9 days to read 3 stars on Goodreads Genre: Fiction Rating 2/3 Fiction  There were so many reasons why I was excited to read Daisy Jones & the Six. Several of my favorite blogs, podcasts, and friends recommended this book. I loved the author’s earlier novel The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. And most notably, earlier this year Daisy Jones got the ultimate bump when it got picked by Reese Witherspoon’s book club, and now the book is being made into a TV show on Amazon […]

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Buy the following on Amazon and help our mission to stick it to cancer, one book at a time:

We pay for our website first, and then all proceeds above and beyond those fees are donated to the American Cancer Society in AlabamaPink's name. Find out how else you can help support our mission.

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6/2/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:15 |

Leah on the Offbeat – Fun Visit Back to Creekwood

Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli

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Finished on March 26, took 2 days to read 3 stars on Goodreads, actually a 3.5 Genre: Young Adult Rating 4/4 Young Adult Leah on the Offbeat is a follow up novel to one of my favorite books from last year: Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda. I devoured Simon in one night, and immediately watched the movie (not as good as the book but still fun). So I was very excited to visit the characters from the point of view of Leah, one of Simon’s best friends from the first novel. We follow the Creekwood gang as they navigate […]

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5/12/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:14 |

12th Century Boss Lady: Part Two

The Winter Crown by Elizabeth Chadwick

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The Winter Crown – Elizabeth Chadwick Finished on March 24, took 3 days to read 5 stars on Goodreads Genre: Historical Fiction Rating 2/2 Historical Fiction Good lord Elizabeth Chadwick has a way with words! The Winter Crown is her second installment in the Aelinor (actual historical spelling of Eleanor) of Aquitaine series. I am hooked on this series. I read the first one back in January and I am deliberately taking a few months off between each installment to make them last as long as possible. When we last left Aelinor, she had married recently crowned King Henry II […]

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5/12/2019 |

A Delightful Spring Romance

A Sky Painted Gold by Laura Wood

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A  Sky Painted Gold – Laura Wood Finished March 21, took 4 days to read 5 Stars on Goodreads Genre: Romance Rating: 1/4 Romance The hosts of one of my favorite podcasts, Bad on Paper, absolutely gushed over this perfect little book. Lou (short for Louise) is a teenaged girl living on the coast of Cornwall in the late 1920s. She is from a huge family, loves to write stories, and is incredibly close to her older sister. Lou lives in a very small town and feels some pressure to follow her sister’s path to get married and settle down. […]

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4/7/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:12 |

Thank You, Next: Throne of Glass

Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas

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Throne of Glass – Sarah J. Maas Finished March 19, took 12 days to read 3 Stars on Goodreads Genre: Young Adult Rating: 2/3 Young Adult I had incredibly high hopes for this series as I devoured Sarah Maas’s other series: A Court of Thorn and Roses. Unfortunately, Throne of Glass did not draw me quite as quickly. I can’t quite put my finger on why, as there were a lot of similarities between the two first books of each series. We meet Celaena, an imprisoned assassin who is working off her sentence (for what, we don’t know and actually […]

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3/30/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:11 |


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