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But the Wind Goes Right Through You, It’s No Place for the Old

The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden

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Okay, I’m going to be upfront here that this was a book club pick (my book club pick, actually), and we broke a cardinal rule: never read the first in a series. It’s incredibly difficult to judge character arcs and abandoned plot lines, because you know that the story is only just beginning. That also makes it difficult to write a fair review, but I will try. Do you love whimsical stories rooted in complicated family dynamics? Apparently I do, because I adored reading this book. The Bear and the Nightingale is the first installment in The Winternight Trilogy, by […]

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1/20/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:2 |

“Grief is Love’s Souvenir”

Love Warrior by Glennon Doyle Melton

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  This book was actually recommended to me by the awesome ladies at the Get Booked podcast. I requested some books that would help me get through some pretty rough stuff that I was going through in life and this book fits the bill. There are many things that Glennon Doyle wrote about herself and about existing as a woman in this world that resonated very deeply with me and gave me some direction on where to go and what to do next. What made it hard for me to relate to was that the author, being a well off […]

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1/7/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:1 |

“There are certain qualities of light that blur the years.” (CBR10Bingo Blackout!)

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

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I apologize now, this review will not really be a review. It is more a love letter to our community here at Cannonball Read. Of the ten books we had to choose from for So Popular, I had read most, but not all. The ones I haven’t read I don’t care to (looking at you, Divergent) so I was thinking about re-reading Eleanor & Park to go with last year’s re-read of Attachments or maybe The Martian to see if I still had a book crush on Mark Watney. I wrote up my #cbr10bingo list with a couple options and […]

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11/30/2018 's CBR10 Review No:58 |

What can I say about Between the Bridge and the River that has not been said before?

Between the Bridge and the River by Craig Ferguson

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And with a close of this book I made the last Bingo book before the deadline! #cbr10bingo is now complete! What can I say about Between the Bridge and the River that has not been said before? I purposely did not read anything about this book before reading it. Sadly, now I wish I had found this book before the book club discussion. I would have a few things to say. Therefore, I am just going to give my impression of the book (as we probably mostly know it by now). This was one of the most indulgent, pieces of sh*t […]

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11/27/2018 's CBR10 Review No:439 |

Better late than never – Cbr10bingo: Cannonball Book Club

Between the Bridge and the River by Craig Ferguson

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A little over a week ago I realized I was two squares short of completing a second bingo column, the book club pick and something from the So Popular! category.  My downtown library had both Between the Bridge and the River as well as Eleanor and Park, my first choice on the So Popular list, so off I went.  Due to the mixed opinions on Craig Ferguson’s book, I suspected I would not enjoy it as much as Eleanor and Park, so I decided to read it first and save E&P as a treat. While reading the book I kept alternating between it […]

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11/26/2018 's CBR10 Review No:48 |

I Was Tempted to Make This Review a Mediation of When Exactly the Likeable Arsehole Line Is Crossed, but Thought Nah, Better Not

Between the Bridge and the River by Craig Ferguson

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  Sorry, I’ve been a bit sluggish with this one. I had every intention – really, I did – of completing this one in time for the book club two weeks ago, but things got in the way. Like work. And Charles Stross’s new book. This book holds a very, shall we say, odd place in my personal rankings; one that is shared with just one other book that I have read recently – Charlie Jane Anders ‘All The Birds In The Sky’. Both of these books left me with the same odd feeling of liking the authors well enough, […]

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11/19/2018 's CBR10 Review No:29 |

#CBR Bingo: #Cannonbookclub (Bingo #5)

Between the Bridge and the River by Craig Ferguson

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#CBR10Bingo: #CannonBookclub I voted for this book in the most recent Book Club poll because Craig Ferguson’s autobiography is hugely enjoyable and one of the best ones I’ve read/listened to (I have the audiobook, narrated by Ferguson himself), and as a result, I was curious and excited at the chance to read a work of fiction by him. Unlike some who have already reviewed this book (by now quite a few, I’m yet again behind on my reviews), I didn’t really watch a lot of Ferguson’s stuff as a late night host (although I’ve seen quite a few fun interviews he’s done on YouTube […]

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11/17/2018 's CBR10 Review No:97 |

So bad it made me make up a bad metaphor

Between the Bridge and the River by Craig Ferguson

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So I thought this was going to be Craig Ferguson’s biography.  I know it says “a novel” but I still thought it was semi-biographical at least. I was wrong, it appears. This is not good.  It bounces around and rambles.  Everyone seems to have miserable lives.  Some of the background characters have interesting stories, but as others have mentioned, women are not portrayed well.  I didn’t hate it as much as other people, but I didn’t like it either.   We follow certain people around, the brothers Saul and Leon, George, and Fraser.  George seems to be the most decent […]

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11/3/2018 's CBR10 Review No:38 |


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