Cannonball Read 11

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In a Jungle

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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While this book is one the surface a novel about a family, it is hard to shake the idea that the book is also about the power of reading. In some ways, the story is about the power of the reader to create life, to give the characters life beyond what the writer of the story can do. It is important that the book starts and ends with a sense of memory because in many ways that is what reading is. The history of the Buendia family is strange, wonderful, and horrifying. It involves numerous children, possible saints, lovely women, […]

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4/21/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:55 |

Grimm but not Carter

The Juniper Tree by Barbara Comyns

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“The Juniper Tree” is a Brothers Grimm story that is at once both unremembered and remembered. Many people think they don’t know, but when you tell them the plot, they go, “oh yeah”. It is also a rather bloody piece of work. (Not as bloody as their story about playing pig slaughter). Barbara Comyns reinvents the tale from an almost feminist perspective. She might not be as rich in language as Angela Carter, but despite its short length the book is far deeper than it first appears. On one level, it is the story of Bella who is mother to […]

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4/21/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:54 |

A novel published in serial form and it shows

North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

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Margaret Hale is the daughter of a country pastor who has had a sudden crisis of faith and has given up his position. Margaret has spent several years living with her aunt and cousin as a well-loved household assistant, but has recently returned to her parents’ home upon her cousin’s marriage. Shortly after moving home her father informs her that he will be moving the family to an industrial town in north England. Margaret’s father is too much a coward to tell his wife about these life-changing events, and so asks Margaret to do it while he goes out for […]

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4/21/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:16 |

But no no no, she did not want to be found.

Claire of the Sea Light by Edwidge Danticat

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Next books for mowing! So this book feels almost like an accidental sequel to my previous book, Bernice L McFadden’s Gathering of Waters. This book takes place in Haiti, where we meet a fisherman and his young daughter. We begin with this fisherman trying to give her to a local fabricstore owner. And we learn soon enough that he’s in deep despair and mourning for the death of her mother, who died when Claire was born. The fabric store owner was there when the mother died and nursed the new born child from her own breast. We move from here […]

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4/21/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:210 |

I am Money. Money Mississippi.

Gathering of Waters by Bernice L McFadden

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Finally! As promised, here’s the first book I listened to while mowing. It takes me a while to mow, so I could finish a big chunk of this one. So we begin this novel with an ethereal voice telling us that they represent the town itself, but also death, life, and maybe a kind of group of spirits. We then meet a young family moving to the black section of a Mississippi town, now established once the white members of the town settle and decide where the Black folks are allowed to live. It’s the 1930s and well, it’s Mississippi. […]

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4/21/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:209 |

One is always punished out of season.

Coup de Grace by Marguerite Yourcenar

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This is another novel by Marguerite Yourcenar and like her book Fires, which I reviewed last week or so it’s from the 1930s. I bring this up for a few reasons. For one, her book after WWII seem of a completely different flavor. The books tend to be longer, slower, and more meditative. This one is quite short — a very light 150 pages, and the narrative is much more quickly paced. The novel about is a rich family in Germany right at the start of WWI. The lead character is too young to join the war effort and feels […]

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4/21/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:208 |

“Fathers and sons…they’re like governments: always having sword fights with their penises”

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Like Life by Lorrie Moore

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OK ok ok. So I originally used to truly love Lorrie Moore stories, especially from the two collections Self-Help and Birds of America. I read Birds of America in college and read Self-Help a few summers ago from a ratty old copy I found in a free bookstore. But recently I have read first her collected nonfiction, which ranged from perfectly good, to unnecessary, to kind of meh, to outwardly bad. I also read her most recent collection Bark and found it more or less empty. Or I was empty of a reaction. And then this novel and short story […]

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4/21/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:207 |

If nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart

Blubber by Judy Blume

Freckle Juice by Judy Blume

Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume

A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett

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This post brought to you by: Books I listened to while playing a ninja video game and prepped my bathroom for painting! A Little Princess I am certain I have read this one before, and if I haven’t I have certainly seen the movie. The author’s bio for this one is kind of funny to me because it makes the claim that Little Lord Fauntleroy is her most famous book, and I imagine that might have been true at various points, but clearly The Secret Garden is now for sure, probably quickly followed up by this one. But this book […]

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4/21/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:205 |


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