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Gold Fame Citrus by Claire Vaye Watkins

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I’m not sure about this book. It took me a long time to read (nearly six weeks) and I stopped mid-way and didn’t touch it for nearly three weeks, until finishing the last 150 pages in one night. In general, I’m not averse to unlikable protagonists, end of the world settings, or literary prose, but there were times with this book where I really felt myself questioning whether or not I do like those things, or if I just want to like those things so that I can claim to be a certain type of person who likes those things. […]

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8/18/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:17 |

If you must break the law, do it to seize power.

SPQR I: The King's Gambit by John Maddox Roberts

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In the year 70 BC, highborn Roman official Decius Caecilius Metellus the Younger tries to solve two murders, the disembowelment of a foreign merchant and the garroting of an ex-gladiator, and an arson that were all committed in his district. Organised crime has an unbreakable hold on the city, and corruption, intrigues, and brutality run rampant, but these crimes seem much more than business as usual. The book seems to be well researched and contains a wealth of information about the Rome of this particular time. Roberts explains food (deep-fried sow’s udder stuffed with Libyan mice anyone?), society, politics, slavery, […]

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8/18/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:41 |

“It’s quite exciting,” said Sherlock Holmes, with a yawn.” (CBR11 Bingo)

A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

A Scandal in Bohemia by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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My previous Sherlock experiences have all centered around visual adaptations, starting with The Great Mouse Detective (1986), but #CannonBookClub is always pushing me to read new to me things. My mind’s eye had a very specific versions of Holmes and Watson cobbled together over many incarnations Watson, to me, is an intelligent everyman who is aware of the things he does not know – as well as being a man of responsibility and duty. Sherlock is a bit testy, has a bit of tunnel vision when it comes to solving a problem or getting information he needs and is how […]

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8/18/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:38 |

Laugh so Loud at the Coffee Shop that the Guy Next in Line Spills His Drink (CBR11 Bingo: The Collection)

Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory by Raphael Bob-Waksberg

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The bizarre come home to roost in Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory. Fleeting daydreams turn into years long stunted relationships, science goes too far into US history, dogs navigate the meaning of “good” and “bad”, entire stories are told in the span of half-sentences, and a Minions watch holds new and aching power. The wordplay, absurdity, and bone-deep ennui of Bob-Waksberg’s previous creation, Bojack Horseman, are ever present and ready to build you up and tear you back down to the ground. Some of those sensibilities make themselves known before even opening the book, as Bob-Waksberg solicited […]

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8/18/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:11 |

Angsty, charming, good….and problematic?

Emergency Contact by Mary H.K. Choi

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CBR11 Bingo –  Cannonballer Says So, scootsa1000 reviewed this book two months ago, and she could’ve just said, “Hey, Rainbow Rowell says this is the best book she read last year.” That would’ve been enough to get me to read Emergency Contact. Instead, she went on to give a really good review of the book. I suggest reading it. Penny is a freshman in college, and I don’t think she’s ever looked forward to anything in her life as much as she has getting away from her mother, her high school, and her boyfriend. She’s a little odd, and definitely […]

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8/18/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:19 |

Behind the Fictional Music

Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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CBR11Bingo – Cannonballer Says The genius of this novel lies in the presentation. We’ve all become familiar with the oral history as a narrative form in recent years, whether in magazine pieces or in longer forms like the SNL history “Live From New York.” To a fiction writer it offers a comparatively easy way to utilize multiple narrators, unreliable narrators, differing perspectives and faulty memories. It also allows Reid to quickly characterize each of the seven members of the titular band and the other major characters. The Six feature two sets of brothers: talented singer-songwriter and leader Billy Dunne and […]

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8/18/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:27 |

Oh Margaret. You can do so many things, but rapping is not one of them. (CBR 11 Bingo: Remix)

Hag-Seed: William Shakespeare's The Tempest Retold by Margaret Atwood

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I love a good Shakespearean remix. I devour everything Margaret Atwood has to offer. I was delighted to come across Hag-Seed, as I am still haunted by her addition to the Canongate Myth Series (Penelopiad) 14 years after reading. Atwood sets her storm in the “summer-stock” theater world of world of far flung Canada. Our Prospero is a wrongfully toppled director of a prestigious theater; toppled by schemes, toppled by loss, and toppled by grief. His island takes the form of a prison, where he rises once again as the lord of all he sees by teaching inmates literacy through Shakespeare. They’ve […]

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8/17/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:10 |

Puzzled, he silently mumbled.

Harriet Hume by Rebecca West

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This is a British novel from 1928 by the writer Rebecca West, most well known for The Return of the Solider, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (a 1400 page diary/journal through Eastern Europe), The Birds Fall Down, and The Fountain Overflows. I have only previously read The Return of the Soldier and recall more about the physical object of the book itself than the story (it was a first edition from 1917 that my library had in the stacks, so it was really neat, and likely valuable). This novel is set across a series of time periods and encounters, not […]

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8/17/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:472 |


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