Cannonball Read 11

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

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I want to read more older things and British things this year, and some that are both. Oh and I’ll probably end up reading a bunch of Italian and French writers this year too. I think.

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The girl anchors the stage, sucks in the male gaze, and, depending on who she is, throws her own gaze back out into the audience.

Girl in a Band by Kim Gordon

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This is a memoir by Sonic Youth co-founder Kim Gordon. I’ve never been super familiar or super into Sonic Youth, but I do have a handful of their albums and I’ve listened to a few of them more than others and really enjoy individual songs more than the whole things. But they’ve always been around in my life, or more or less. Their first album came out in 1983, I think, and I was born in 1981. But like a lot of people I connect them with the Homerpalooza episode of The Simpsons, which gives them a funny playful air […]

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2/18/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:97 |

There was something of the pavilion about one raincoat…

The Bride of the Innisfallen by Eudora Welty

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Eudora Welty was around 30 when the first of her writing was first published. And in those early stories and novels, you can see the develop of the voice and mind at work. She’s never naive, and in fact is especially sharp, especially in stories like “The Wide Net” and “A Petrified Man” both of which show both a wisdom and irony about relationships. In this collection, she’s clearly older. She’s expanded beyond her Mississippi roots in trying to capture other places in the world and characters from other parts of this character. The title story doesn’t read like a […]

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2/17/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:96 |

A small-scale happiness and a modest harmony

The Waiting Years by Fumiko Enchi

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This novel, written by the same writer for the novel Masks, that I reviewed a few days ago, is about a well-off household in prewar Japan that is preparing for the arrival of a new concubine. The narrative perspective of this arrival is primarily from the first wife. This is a sad and frustrating novel. It’s sad and earnest, and gives voice to what is inherently a silenced voice. This novel also predates other novels that I have read that discuss the concept of bringing a concubine into the fold of a household and showing it for what it is, […]

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2/17/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:95 |

This spring came the third flood

A Story of the Red Cross by Clara Barton

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This is a kind of institutional memoir and document of advocacy written by Clara Barton, found of the American Red Cross, and published in 1904. The book begins with Clara Barton’s responding to a query by a young letter writer (whether real or emblematic) and so begins a nonfiction account that is similar to Virginia Woolf’s Three Guineas in its format and design. The letter writer asks Clara Barton not to simply tell the history of the Red Cross or explain its motivating rationale, but to tells a story that shows both in this portrayal. And so Barton begins to talk about […]

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2/17/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:94 |

Something had to happen between them. Two people cannot play a conspiracy for so long, and play it each on his own.

The Elected Member by Bernice Rubens

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This is the second(ish) novel to win the Booker Prize. I am interested in the question of what wins prizes at different periods of times because it sheds some kind of light on critical and popular taste. In the early years of the prize some very good novels were to win, some particularly weak novels were to win, and some very good novels were to lose. This book is somewhere in the middle: an interesting but forgettable novel that lingers because of the win, but less so for the quality. I had thought this novel would be about a member […]

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2/17/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:93 |

I can share the seethe of millions, but it won’t do. Rage has limited uses and serious flaws.

The Source of Self-Regard by Toni Morrison

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This is a collection of essays from Toni Morrison. That more or less should speak for itself in terms of what you’re getting if you decide to read this one. It’s not a total collected works but more so works along some broad themes to present her nonfiction thinking from the last 30 years or so. So a few things happen when you read this book or a few considerations to make in reading this one: one, her political, racial, and cultural writing outside of the confines of literature is incredibly clear, strong, effective, and holds up. There were a […]

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2/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:92 |

Harder to behold were the more structural disfigurements

Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday

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This book reminded me closely of Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon squad. For one, it’s about a familiar figure rendered on the page in the guise of a set of literary tropes. Two, it plays around with reader expectations on plot and form. Three, I was repeatedly told how great it was. Four, I didn’t think it was, actually. Five, I felt fooled by reviews. I was reminded in an odd way of Flaubert’s Dictionary of Accepted Ideas here; this was not because the novel is anything like that book, but because there’s a given accepted idea that […]

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2/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:91 |

But it’s different with a woman. Her work in the house is to keep not to get.

The Devil's Pool by George Sand

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This is a short novel from the 1840s and published in a serial form by George Sand, the pseudonym of  Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin. While George Sand is quite famous, obviously, I don’t feel like she’s got the same status as other 19th century French novelists or other 19th century female novelists working in contemporary times. This novel begins with a thematic prologue from the narrative voice (a full of life authorial voice) who discusses looking at a famous painting of Holbein, looking at a small inscription that lauds the integrity of the man of labour. We then begin the novel […]

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2/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:90 |


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