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Make Margaret Atwood Fiction Again

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

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So I bought a house.  Moved my mother in with us in her own apartment. Sold her place. Renovated our old one to ready it for rental.  Got half new staff at work. Raising the tiny one.  It’s been a bit since I’ve posted, but life has been hectic.  Nothing like a nice relaxing read to soothe my jangled nerves, so of course I pick The Handmaid’s Tale to read (and make my coworker book club cohorts read for our first selection.) I’m a masochist. You know the plot, so did I.  It was my third time through.  I won’t […]

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9/17/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:39 |

Remember when we used to be friends?

For You by Kristen Ashley

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PATTY: Say it. Admit it. SAY IT. KATIE:  FINE. Fine. Kristen Ashley’s FOR YOU is actually fine, maybe even edging into decent/good. It’s the first book in her ‘Burg series, and if someone sent you this book to read with nothing identifying who wrote it, you’d probably think it’s an okay romantic suspense novel even if it is a little wordy. PATTY: February Owens and Alec Colton were once upon a time a dream couple. The *something* happened and February broke up with Colton and twenty years later they barely speak to each other but there’s all this yearning. Katie: […]

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8/24/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:5 |

Sanitized For Your Convenience

Between the Bridge and the River by Craig Ferguson

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OK, so I don’t want to go too far into this yet, because I know it’s for the Book Club in November, and I’ll come back and add to this between now and then, but I want to get my initial impressions down now before they dull in my head. I read this book really early because, basically, I went to my library’s site to put a hold on it now, assuming it would have a wait list. Lo and behold! It was available! So I figured, why not? Let’s get going on it now. Good lord this book is […]

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8/13/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:12 |

I’m pissed I didn’t like this more.

Kindred by Octavia Butler

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I’ve been sitting on this review for quite a while, not 100% sure what I wanted to say about this book. I was only about half finished with it during our book club discussion, but reading all of the comments, I knew I just didn’t feel as strongly about this book as most of you did. And I was pissed. I really wanted to love this. I was so fired up to read it. But maybe there was just too much hype, that when I found it to be “just fine,” I felt like I missed something. Why didn’t I […]

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7/13/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:28 |

Back to the future

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

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In what must be the most frightening birthday surprise ever, on Dana’s 26th birthday, as she is moving into a new house with her husband Kevin, she suddenly feels dizzy and gets transported away from her safe and familiar surroundings in 1976. She comes to in the woods by a river, where a boy is in the process of drowning. Dana reacts instinctively and wades into the water, rescuing the boy. Faced with the boy’s hysterical mother, and more terrifyingly, the boy’s angry father, who points a rifle at her, Dana is suddenly back with her husband. She might have […]

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6/23/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:48 |

I have additional rambling thoughts on Kindred

Kindred by Octavia Butler

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I’ve finally made my way to reviewing our #CannonBookClub selection, Kindred. Did I ever tell you all how happy I was that this was the one we chose? Not that I wouldn’t have happily read any of our options, but Kindred has been lurking on my to read list a long time and it fulfills two of this year’s Read Harder Challenge tasks (read a genre fiction classic, read a sci-fi novel with a female protagonist by a female author). My review is probably going to be a bit disjointed, as I wander through my thoughts and our book club […]

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6/20/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:20 |

Cannon Book Club: Kindred

Kindred by Octavia Butler

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I tend to listen to an audio-book while driving, read a paperback or thin hardcover on my lunch break and then save thicker hardcover books for at home. My copy of Kindred was a paperback so it was on the lunch rotation which meant it took me a lot longer to read than it deserved. At this point I think we all know the gist of Butler’s Kindred but here is a quickie synopsis for the lone person who missed all the other reviews and/or Book Club discussion. Dana, an African-American woman from California, is transported back to the Antebellum South, namely the […]

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6/12/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:69 |

Book Club Discussion Post: Kindred

Kindred by Octavia Butler

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The time has arrived (and no limbs were lost in the process); we’re going to spend the next two days talking about Kindred. It’s our “most popular” category Anniversary Read so I’m very interested to hear how you feel this book rates in your all-time Cannonball list. Ground rules remain the same as they always have. For those of you who might be joining in for #CannonBookClub for the first time (hello new friends!) all are welcome. All of our topics are numbered and we ask that you refer to them below by that number to help people find the […]

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6/8/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:0 |


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