Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

A Knight Like No Other

The Last Knight by Candice Proctor

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This is a medieval era romance, set in the time of Henry II , written by the same woman who penned the Sebastian St. Cyr mysteries.  Candice Proctor is her real name, and she had written several historical romances as such before using the pen name C.S. Harris.  Having enjoyed that series so much, I was curious to see what her older books were like. Lady Attica d’Alerion is nineteen and betrothed for political reasons to a fourteen year old boy named Fulk the Fat.  While this prospect isn’t great, she knows that she doesn’t have much say in the […]

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6/27/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:56 |

“If you had the time to lose, an open mind and time to choose.”

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

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  I avoided this book for years because I was told it was a romance novel and I have a prejudice against romance novels. Perhaps it was the seemingly endless supply of Harlequin books my mother seemed to devour. The closest I ever got was a minor obsession with V.C. Andrews which take a decidedly darker turn than the average “bodice ripper.” While I’m still not a fan of a straightforward romance novel, I have included books that fall under the “romance” umbrella into my TBR pile. This was the first and mostly like the most hefty in foray into […]

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6/27/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:24 |

Much Ado About Harry

A Fashionable Indulgence by KJ Charles

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This is the first book in a series called A Society of Gentlemen, a Regency set trilogy about the lives and loves of a group of young men.  The first one is somewhat of a take on  My Fair Lady, with Harry Vane being plucked from the gutter to take his place in society as an heir to a fortune.  His parents were radical reformists, and died for the cause, leaving Harry on his own.  HIs grandfather had disowned Harry’s father for his marriage and his views, but now searches Harry out when the other heirs passed away.  The only problem […]

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6/26/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:55 |

NightinFail

The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

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Spoilers in this review. This book made me tired. I confess, I do not get what everyone sees in The Nightingale. I feel like because it is set in WWII/the Holocaust, and we know that terrible things happened, this book had ALL OF THE TERRIBLE THINGS and we just accept that EVERY TERRIBLE THING happened to the characters because, of course, it was a time of terrible things. But it was too much; it was simply not believable to me after a point. But I’m getting ahead of myself. The protagonists are Isabelle and Vianne, two French sisters. These two […]

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6/23/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:48 |

A tale of three cities

A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab

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In the world of V.E. Schwab’s Shades of Magic trilogy, in which this is the first book, there are parallel worlds. There used to be gateways between them, but now only the magical Antari (identified by having one normal and one fully black eyeball) are able to travel through to the various worlds, using their blood and magical ability. Young Kell, fostered with the royal family in Red London is one of these Antari. In each of the four worlds, there is a London, the geographical location of which overlaps. There is Grey London, which is the England of George III, […]

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6/23/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:53 |

Murder and Mayhem in Oklahoma

Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann

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Everyone’s history deserves to be told. One of the principal reactions I had to David Grann’s new book, about a series of heinous murders committed against wealthy Osage Indians in the 1920s, was incredulity that I had never heard even an inkling about this terrible chapter in American history. The story, in brief: after being forced out of their original homeland the Osage Indians found themselves on a rocky, arid plain in Oklahoma that was given to them essentially because no one else wanted it. The Osage were smart enough to ensure that the terms of their agreement gave them […]

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6/22/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:22 |

Today was my last teacher workday, so I read this.

The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education by Diane Ravitch

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Diane Ravitch doesn’t believe in conspiracy theories, and neither do I. If you hold the belief that education is a funneling institution designed to make people dumber and more compliant and more consumerist and all that, I think you’re foolish and wrong. If, though, you talked about how one of the effects of a schooling based in testing, accountability, profit, and various other aims that are not really part of the goals of education is some version of the above, then I might agree with you. Like a lot of things in politics, the ways schools are run is a […]

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6/21/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:244 |

If you like the title, you’ll like the book?

The People of Forever are not Afraid by Shani Boianjiu

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*sits speechless for a while* *squints* I liked it?? I’m just going to describe what this novel is about. (Yes this is a book review that lacks words for my opinion about the book. I did a beautiful interpretive dance that conveyed my sentiments exactly, but, alas, it cannot be transcribed to the page.) The novel follows three childhood friends as they venture from the safe life of their village into the army. We meet Amishag, Yael and Lea at school when they are teenage girls, giggling over boys, trying to get cell phone reception and organize parties. Still we […]

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6/21/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:15 |

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