Cannonball Read 9

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Book Announcement: #CannonBookClub Reads Non-Western Literary Fiction

In Praise of Hatred by Khaled Khalifa

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The votes have been counted and Khaled Khalifa’s In Praise of Hatred will be our September #CannonBookClub read! Our goal is always to expand our reading, so if this wasn’t your first choice, I as always hope you’ll make room in the next several weeks for both. #CannonBookClub convenes on Wednesday, September 13. I’ll be posting a Discussion Topics post two weeks before our discussion. As in previous Book Clubs, feel free to visit us here on the group blog for the dedicated post or in our Facebook Cannonball Read Book Chat group where I’ll have even more topics to discuss. For a little more about […]

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7/27/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:0 |

Book Club Reads Non-Western Literary Fiction – Voting!

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Voting for this #CannonBookClub is now closed. The selection is In Praise of Hatred by Khaled Khalifa. Buy it online at amazon, and please join us on September 13 for our discussion. Who’s ready for an ambitious summer read? Here at the #CannonBookClub we are always on the lookout to expand our horizons and try new and different genres, so this summer we are going to go in the direction of Literary Fiction. Our twist this time is that we will be focusing on Non-Western authors. This is a very broad literary arena, so in order to find something new for […]

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7/20/2017 | |

Bad Impulses

All the Stars in the Heavens by Adriana Trigiani

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Although I have a “To Read” list on Goodreads and have books and authors scribbled down on the backs of various envelopes and whatnot, I am also a pretty impulsive reader. Especially at my favorite local used book store.  It’s a wonderful place where they give you credit for any books you bring in and also offer a 50% discount when you use that trade credit.  When I’m there, I completely ignore my scribbles and my “To Read” list and just buy books on impulse. All the Stars in the Heavens, by Adriana Trigiani, was just such an impulse buy, […]

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7/17/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:25 |

Freedom, like everything else, is relative.

The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood

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Margaret Atwoods The Handmaids Tale tells the story of Offred; a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead – a reconstructed United States. Offred witnesses the dissolution of her former way of life and the transformation of society into a totalitarian theocracy. Women are enslaved and stripped of even their most basic rights, they cannot choose who to be in a relationship with, they cannot, read, write, own property, gain employment or even hold on to their own name. Offred is a patronymic, it is a name gifted to the individual to signify ownership, she is of fred, therefore Offred. Prior […]

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7/14/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:25 |

Completely fine. 100% fine. a thousand percent fine.

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

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Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine is the debut novel for author Gail Honeyman. The book rights have sold for huge sums worldwide and the movie rights now belong to Reese Witherspoon’s new company Hello Sunshine. In writing Eleanor, Honeyman has created a character I would love to get to know – She is unfiltered, forthright, smart, funny and profoundly lonely. Eleanor has no interpersonal skills, no social skills, no concept of what opportunities life could hold for her and she is very very real, there are parts of Eleanor I see in myself and parts I cannot hope to ever […]

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7/13/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:24 |

It’s true that they don’t make good romantic comedies anymore

Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned from Eighties Movies by Hadley Freeman

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This was the most recent book club entry in the Cannonball Book Club, where the theme was movie related non-fiction. It wasn’t the book I voted for, but book clubs are all about expanding ones horizons and reading things you wouldn’t necessarily pick yourself, so I downloaded it from the library and started reading. Sadly, on the day of the actual book club discussion, I was feeling unwell, and not really able to take part as much as I would have liked. Of course, now it’s been over a month since I finished the book, and while I kept thinking I […]

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7/4/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:60 |

Growing Up Is Hard Even Without LSD

The Girls by Emma Cline

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This book takes place in the late 1960s, around the summer of love.  I wasn’t around then, so I’m sure that a lot of my ideas of that time are influenced by popular culture.  This isn’t one of those books that glamorizes that era, but seems to exist solely in between the two worlds of structured society and drug-saturated counterculture. The protagonist is Evie, a girl that would be described as “fourteen going on thirty.”  Evie is a bit of an outsider in her own life, caught in between her divorcing parents and their plans for her.  She has one […]

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7/3/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:19 |

I think she got her subtitle wrong

Life Moves Pretty Fast: Lessons We Learned from Eighties Movies by Hadley Freeman

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I read a decent amount of non-fiction in my life, so our June Book Club book, Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned from Eighties Movies was right up my alley. I also really enjoy the process, the lore, and the production decisions surrounding Hollywood and the film industry, which is why I decided to skew our non-fiction selections a certain way. You all decided 80s was the way to go and here we are. I liked this book fine, but I think Hadley Freeman (while an accomplished writer) had quite a few missteps, which prevented me from rating this anything […]

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6/15/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:33 |

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