Cannonball Read 10

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“One never knows when one is behaving like a creep; probably even that astronaut lady who drove for two days to beat up her ex-boyfriend’s new girlfriend didn’t think twice when she bought those adult diapers. It just felt right.”

Party of One: A Memoir in 21 Songs by Dave Holmes

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Here are all of the things Dave Holmes and I have in common: We went to college together and have a few of the same friends. We both worked as DJs at WCHC. We both remember what it was like to anxiously await the arrival of a new J Crew catalog. We can both easily drop SNL’s Gary Kroeger into a conversation. We both love music. Here are some ways that Dave Holmes and I are different: I have never been on MTV. I’m not a gay man. The similarities clearly outweigh the differences. Really, we are more or less […]

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12/5/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:46 |

“Sometimes people have to be allowed to have something to live for in order to survive everything else.”

Us Against You by Fredrik Backman

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Last year, after I read A Man Called Ove, I tried to get my hands on everything Fredrik Backman had written. Including Bear Town. I read it but didn’t review it. I couldn’t quite figure out what I wanted to say about it…that it was a good book that filled me with dread every time I picked it up? That I didn’t enjoy it but acknowledged that it was great? That, as the parent of a teenage girl, it scared me to death? I wasn’t sure, so I didn’t say anything. And now, here’s the sequel to Bear Town, picking […]

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11/26/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:45 |

Like Sam the Butcher, bringing Alice the meat. Like Fred Flintstone, driving around with bald feet.

Beastie Boys Book by Adam Horowitz, Michael Diamond

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When I was a senior in high school, many moons ago, I was lucky enough to go and see the Beastie Boys Licensed to Ill tour at the Worcester Centrum, complete with Murphy’s Law, Public Enemy, and a 6 foot hydraulic penis. To say I was obsessed with this record and this band was a bit of an understatement. They were young, and fun, and ridiculous. Their jokes were random and hilarious. I loved them. A few years after that, I was a DJ at my college station, and we got a copy of Paul’s Boutique. I was looking for […]

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11/22/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:44 |

Do I look like I drink water?

So Close to Being the Shit, Y'all Don't Even Know by Retta

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I think most of us know Retta from Parks and Rec, where she played Donna Meagle and was part of the TREAT YO SELF phenomenon of 2011. I also knew she loved the LA Kings and Hamilton, but really didn’t know much else about her before listening to her audiobook. Now I know a lot about her…but I still don’t really feel like I know her. RETTA, WHO ARE YOU? You love handbags. You love your hardworking, immigrant parents. You love Duke University. You are super smart. You love dark roast coffee made in a Keurig. You love to tweet. […]

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11/13/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:43 |

This book made me thirsty.

Dry by Neal Shusterman, Jarrod Shusterman

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I read a lot of dystopian fiction. I have read about the super flu, zombies, the earth’s rotation slowing down, nuclear wastelands, and government created vampires. This was my first foray into dystopia via climate change fiction, and parts of it were terrifying. The part that scares me the most in these dystopias are the scenes on the crowded highways. Where are you supposed to go if you can’t get there? These scenes scared me in The Stand and in World War Z — something terrible happens, and you have to leave… but everyone else is leaving too, so the […]

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11/12/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:42 |

A book about baseball that suddenly became a book about so much more.

Swing by Kwame Alexander, Mary Rand Hess

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I’ve read a whole bunch of Kwame Alexander’s poetry stories — he writes for tweens and teens in verse, but it never feels boring or difficult. The plot moves quickly and easily and his topics are usually difficult ones. Divorce, death of a parent, unrequited crushes, adoption, the end of a friendship, etc. And it seems like his best books — for me, that would include The Crossover, Booked,and Rebound— revolve around sports. Basketball. Soccer. And now, baseball. Noah is in high school and is in love with one of his two best friends, Sam. He’s been in love with […]

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10/31/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:41 |

Emma Thompson is a goddess and should always be treated as such. Oh, and BINGO.

Emma by Jane Austen

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I’ve read Emma a few times before, and have read several re-imaginings and retellings as well. I’ve seen at least four adaptations (Mark Strong as Mr. Knightley…Jonny Lee Miller as Mr. Knightely…the web series made by the folks who did The Lizzie Bennett Diaries…and of course, the GOOP version), and always thought I preferred the movie to the book. I mean, come on. Jeremy Northam gave so much beautiful side-eye to Goop in that movie. And then, low and behold, Audible gifted me with the Emma Thompson (plus full cast) version of the audiobook. And it was so good. I loved […]

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10/30/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:40 |

One of these days, I’m definitely going to have to learn how to spell Marisha Pessl without looking.

Neverworld Wake by Marisha Pessl

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Its become very clear that Marisha Pessl is now a MUST author for me. I loved her debut novel, Special Topics in Calamity Physics. And while I didn’t have the same immediate feelings for Night Film, that book crept up on me and ended up scaring me more than I thought possible. With Neverworld Wake, Pessl presents her first YA offering, and it offers a combination of the private school privileged world seen in Calamity Physics and a nightmarish view of human nature, similar to that in Night Film. Be a lives with her parents in a picturesque seaside town […]

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10/9/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:39 |


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