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“I try not to expect people to be who I wish them to be, rather than who they are.” (Bingo #2)

A Conspiracy in Belgravia (Lady Sherlock #2) by Sherry Thomas

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In setting up the prompts for our Sherlock Retellings Book Club I realized one of the parameters I use when deciding if something is a good retelling or remix: a good retelling for its own sake, needs to have enough of the original’s connective tissue without feeling like it’s been made using tracing paper. In the Lady Sherlock series Sherry Thomas split the various characteristics across several characters and I think it worked really well to not have direct analogs for the most part. Its set in the same historical time-space, but she really broadens the type of characters we […]

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9/21/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:46 |

Elementary, My Dear Watson

A Study In Scarlett by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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A Study in Scarlet, is the first Sherlock Holmes mystery that Doyle wrote. Although I mostly enjoyed it, it’s pretty clear he was just starting this thing out. It’s a little rough in patches. Also, while I read this when I was younger, I had completely forgotten the weird Mormon/Native American Tracker (or is he a white dude adopted by Native Americans? It’s never quite clear.) tangent he goes off on at one point.  The tangent does make me kind of want to ticket of the “Western” Category box just kind of as a laugh. But I won’t. Because I […]

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9/19/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:30 |

Discussion Topics: A Sherlock Retelling

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The discussion post is now live! Please visit that post to discuss your choice of Sherlock Holmes adaptations. Earlier this year we voted on which Classic with many retellings to use for our second and third Book Clubs of 2019. Arthur Conan Doyle’s A Study in Scarlet won and now you, dear Cannonballers, are able to choose any updated version of the Sherlock story to discuss with us in two short weeks. It can be a straight modernization, or a graphic novel, possibly even a gender-swapped version set in space, or a work of non-fiction. Whatever your choice, we’ll be […]

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9/9/2019 |

“We feel the pull in the land of a thousand guilts”

The Little Friend by Donna Tartt

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The Little Friend is not a mystery, despite what the description might lead you to believe. If it falls into any category it would be a coming-of-age story. Harriet Cleve Dufresne, a precocious twelve year old girl takes it upon herself to solve the murder of her older brother Robin, whom she has never met but whose death casts a pall over both her family and the small town she lives in. What begins as an adventure out of one of the many books Harriet reads quickly puts her and her friend Hely into the sort of danger she’d never […]

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8/23/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:25 |

Deserves the hype

The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

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  CBR11 Bingo Listicle- I’ve seen this on several best seller lists in addition to Pres. Obama’s summer reading list.   This was a really brutal book. The author has written a fictional account of a reform school for boys, but based it on a real school that closed only a few years ago. It was discovered after the schools’ closure that there were a number of bodies buried on the school grounds that had not been accounted for. The men in charge of the school had buried several of the students there but told the boys’ families that they […]

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8/21/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:49 |

Classic and a remix, and I’m not sure about either

A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

A Study in Seduction by Eva Chase

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CBR11Bingo Classic and Remix squares. I had never read anything by Arthur Conan Doyle before this. I have to say, I was a little disappointed. The first half of the book was about what I expected- introductions of characters, segue in to the mystery to be solved, Holmes solves a case that no one else can. I think most of the English-speaking world has some familiarity with Sherlock Holmes, whether through book, movie, television show or references in other pop culture. I wasn’t expecting the entire second half of the book to be a detour to the Murderous Mormon territory. […]

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8/21/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:48 |

“It’s quite exciting,” said Sherlock Holmes, with a yawn.” (CBR11 Bingo)

A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

A Scandal in Bohemia by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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My previous Sherlock experiences have all centered around visual adaptations, starting with The Great Mouse Detective (1986), but #CannonBookClub is always pushing me to read new to me things. My mind’s eye had a very specific versions of Holmes and Watson cobbled together over many incarnations Watson, to me, is an intelligent everyman who is aware of the things he does not know – as well as being a man of responsibility and duty. Sherlock is a bit testy, has a bit of tunnel vision when it comes to solving a problem or getting information he needs and is how […]

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8/18/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:38 |

Behind the Fictional Music

Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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CBR11Bingo – Pajiba The genius of this novel lies in the presentation. We’ve all become familiar with the oral history as a narrative form in recent years, whether in magazine pieces or in longer forms like the SNL history “Live From New York.” To a fiction writer it offers a comparatively easy way to utilize multiple narrators, unreliable narrators, differing perspectives and faulty memories. It also allows Reid to quickly characterize each of the seven members of the titular band and the other major characters. The Six feature two sets of brothers: talented singer-songwriter and leader Billy Dunne and his […]

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8/18/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:27 |


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