Cannonball Read 11

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“but safe in sound you’ll go to sleep”

Nighttime Symphony by Timbaland

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I almost did not write a review for Nighttime Symphony by Timbaland, Christopher Myers and Kaa Illustration. As this picture book (out May 2019) is one of the books that make me think/say, “Book good. Read.” Of course, the Tarzan mentality only gets you so far. The review needs to talk about the story: The sounds of the city lull a baby to sleep. Of course, they are loud sounds, soft sounds, unique sounds to the city. The father is telling, in lyrical text, this lullaby to his child. The review needs to talk about the text: This is a […]

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2/21/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:51 |

Here a skull, there a skull, everywhere a skull-skull….

SKULLS! by Blair Thornburgh

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SKULLS!  Yes, you have one. Yes, I have one. Yes, your dog has one. Yes, even a pirate has one! Blair Thornburgh’s narrator takes you through the world of skulls in a very scientific but simplistic and story formatted, way. Follow the story along as she tells you all the great things skulls can do for you and things about skulls. The afterwards has interesting facts about skulls that do not lend themselves easily to the story itself. This would be a good book to read to an early-aged class learning about basic human body science. It is not necessarily […]

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2/21/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:50 |

“It’s impossible to know if we were a good thing that broke somehow or a bad thing that eventually became exposed. “

Something in the Water by Catherine Steadman

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Something in the Water got a lot of attention last year; Steadman’s debut novel was nominated for two Goodreads Choice awards and was Reese Witherspoon’s June Book Club read. I borrowed this one from the library based on these facts so I didn’t know much about the novel going in which is sometimes best with thrillers. “I notice my sudden jump in logic. From making a mistake to actively committing a crime. Just like that. I wonder if that’s how it starts with a lot of criminals…” Erin is a documentary film maker who is weeks away from her wedding when […]

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2/20/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:16 |

Notorious Pleasures is the title, not the reading experience

Notorious Pleasures by Elizabeth Hoyt

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I read the first book in this, the Maiden Lane series, but didn’t do a write up for it before starting book two and now it has sort of evaporated out of my head so I am just going to skip that one and go straight into Notorious Pleasures. Notorious Pleasures deals with Lady Hero Batten, the lovely, proper, and dutiful sister of the Duke of Wakefield, who is about to be engaged to Thomas Reading, the Marquess of Mandeville. The book opens with her having entered a small room to adjust her wayward stocking at a ball, only to […]

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2/20/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:5 |

Cozy re-read.

Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

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Quick review for a re-read. I still love this book. It’s still a great character study of Cath, who has anxiety and abandonment issues, and has huddled in on herself like a turtle, afraid to put out feelers to the outside world. She uses reading and writing fanfiction as an outlet for her creativity, and a way to forget herself for a while, but she wants to be a professional writer, and that means a type of writing she isn’t comfortable with yet, a type of writing that is personal and uncomfortable, for which you have to be present at […]

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2/20/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:22 |

…But Like So Many Unfortunate Events In Life, Just Because You Don’t Understand It, Doesn’t Mean It Isn’t So

The Bad Beginning, Book The First by Lemony Snicket

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I did not read A Series of Unfortunate Events when they first came out.  I was a little too old, and I heard of them when the Jim Carey movie came out, but didn’t really get interested in it.  It wasn’t until the Netflix Series came out and it hooked the imagination of my son that the Series really revealed itself to me.  Once my son devoured all of the episodes of the tv show, he has moved on to voraciously reading the series.  I’m having a hard time matching his pace, but figured I’d start to try and catch […]

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2/20/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:4 |

Sir Condy Rackrent, by the grace of God heir-at-law to the Castle Rackrent estate, was a remote branch of the family.

Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth

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This is a bizarre, little raucous novel from 1800. And it got me thinking about a few things. The novel itself is kind of collective history/memoir of three generations of rich landowners (of Castle Rackrent as you can imagine) told from the perspective of a long-time servant of the estate, one “Honest Thady” who is able to witness to, about, and confess on the various comings and goings of the family. This faux memoir is written as a kind of family history in the style of a narrative history (as opposed to other styles like an annals or listing). It’s […]

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2/20/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:103 |

I have always loathed murder.

Bring the Monkey by Miles Franklin

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This book is kind of impressively bad. It’s impressive in the sense that it’s just obviously not a good novel and is difficult to read as a consequence of audacious of author choices that are done for a purpose, and are clearly part of that purpose but otherwise are not fun, good, or interesting to read. Let me explain. This is a satirical detective novel lampooning 1920s and 1930s estate manor mysteries like Agatha Christie or Dorothy Sayers. It’s from 1933 and so it’s early in this wave of writing, some ten or so years after the first Agatha Christie […]

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2/20/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:102 |


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