Continuing our feel-good goals with #CannonBookClub in 2021 we’ve landed on Fairy Tales and Adaptations as our theme for our September meeting. With that in mind our Book Club team has decided on a shortlist of four books to choose from, highlighting different genres and original tales. September 17-18, 2021 Book Choices Select one, some or all of the books below. (Descriptions from Bookshop.org; links to original fairytales at Gutenberg.org) You can select the original, the adaptation, or both. Choose from: The Bear and the […]
I was today years old when I discovered this book and I are pretty much the same age
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
3.5 stars CBR13 Bingo: Machinery (space ships, the guide, Marvin – a lot of examples) Arthur Dent wakes up one morning to discover his house is about to be bulldozed. He’s very upset about it and goes to lie down in front of one of the bulldozers, so it can’t knock down his house, but is interrupted by his friend Ford Prefect, who has some very important things to tell him, and very little time left to do so. It turns out Ford Prefect is […]
“Stranger, Whoever you are, Open this to learn what will amaze you”
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthoy Doerr
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr is an epic story. My ARC copy was over 600 pages long. Doerr, who won the Pulitzer Price for All The Light We Cannot See, has woven together the stories of five people in three different times, connected with a sixth story, the ancient Greek story of Cloud Cuckoo Land. In modern day Idaho we have Zeno, an old man, orphaned at a young age, who was changed by his experience as a POW during the Korean War. Along with […]
Anxious People: Not what I expected, but charming
Anxious People by Frederik Backman
This was our June Book Club pick. This is an unexpected and delightful novel. I saw all of the press and buzz about A Man Called Ove and was never really tempted to read it. But this delightfully quirky and human story has made me curious about Backman’s other works. This is a novel about a bank robbery. And an apartment. And a hostage situation. And the conflict between City and country Swedeners. And love. And marriage. And winning. And losing. And dying . And […]
How the hell did I miss the book club?
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
So anyway – I read The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy for the #CannonBookClub back in April. And then I proceeded to never find the link to the chat and completely forget about all things book club. And then I didn’t know if I could post a review before hand so I was overthinking everything and got so behind on reviews that I now have 8 books to review. Wow… talk about slacking. So I’m welcoming myself back 🙂 Now on to The Hitchhiker’s Guide […]