Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

We need a new category for Mystery-Love Story-Religious Thrillers

The Wonder by Emma Donoghue

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 The Wonder brings so many of my favourite elements together – a mystery, faith, a love story, and Ireland.  It basically hit all the right notes for me. Anna is a young Irish girl, who is gaining fame for being able to live without eating for weeks.  Lib, an English nurse and self-proclaimed skeptic, is hired to observe and substantiate the claims that this is an honest-to-goodness miracle. Tensions develop between Lib and Anna’s family, as well as members of the community, as she tries to get to the bottom of the mystery surrounding this girl. Spoilers… (sorta): While I […]

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7/17/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:25 |

When God Gets Lost in Translation

The Grammar of God by Aviya Kushner

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“The Grammar of God” by Aviya Kushner is Ms. Kushner’s experience reading the Bible in English for the first time. Ms. Kushner isn’t an immigrant, in face she’s from New York, but until she began graduate school she had never read the Bible in a language other than Hebrew. When she begins her class on the English Bible, she learns, from the very first verse in Genesis, that the experience of reading the Bible in English is not the same as she has experienced the Bible in Hebrew. She embarks on a journey to explore some of the subtle and […]

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7/8/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:32 |

A for Method, D for Conclusions

What is the Bible? by Rob Bell

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Have you ever respected someone for their method but disagreed with their conclusions? That’s how I felt toward Rob Bell in this book. As a practicing Christian, and one who’s interested in the Bible as a book and a source of inspiration, I’m interested to learn more about it. Too many times the Bible has been hijacked by fundamentalists who ignore literary, historical, and social contexts in order to prove a point. Personally, I don’t believe this is how it should be used, nor was intended to be used. Mr. Bell begins by taking a random verse about Moses and […]

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7/8/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:31 |

Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely

Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me by Ron Miscavige with Dan Koon

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Following Escape Camp 14 with Ruthless was a fairly easy transition. The work camps of North Korea have eerie similarities with the SeaOrg work conditions within Scientology. Miscavige makes the association, lumping in Nazi Germany, himself. Ron Miscavige, father of cult leader David Miscagive, left the Church of Scientology in 2012 after 40 decades involvement including 27 years in the SeaOrg. He brought his family, including teenage son David, into the fold and devoted his life to the “church” included traveling to England for classes. At sixteen David left what meager schooling he was still attending to join to SeaOrg full time. David managed […]

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6/14/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:67 |

Left Behind in a Shack to eat Chicken Soup with Kirk Cameron. Jesus.

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace

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There is a pretty good story, here, but it’s lost in the sonorous ramblings of a man too fixated on scenery. Do I need to provide a synopsis? Surely we’ve all seen the movie (not the new one, which I assume is atrocious). In short: it’s a revenge tale, of a first century Jewish man who has his life ruined by a childhood friend, a Roman. Judah Ben Hur spends years as a galley slave, before lucking his way back into wealth and the good graces of Rome. He then takes out his revenge in a fabulous chariot race then […]

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5/25/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:43 |

The Oasis – where I’ve got friends in low places

Genesis - Part VI: Ch 23-26 by God. Obviously. With a little help from his friends in low places

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Previously on Supernatural…. Ishmael and Abraham’s baby mama are kicked to the desert curb because Sarah has ISSUES and God pranks Abraham with the old “sacrifice your son” gag then promises more descendants ruling over everything forever. This week… Patty: Ding Dong the Witch is Dead. Sarah finally bites it at the ripe old age of 127. Good riddance, I say. Abraham needs a place to bury his wife, so most of Ch 23 is all: Abraham: Let me pay you for the land to bury my wife. Ephron: No, I couldn’t. Just bury your wife on my land. Abraham: […]

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5/15/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:11 |

I will not submit.

Submission by Michel Houellebecq

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I started writing this review about the academic epiphany I had while reading this book: the character mentions many writers, thinkers, philosophers, in quotations that made no sense to me. I felt incapable of what I chose as a career. But in the course of writing it, I realized that I got more upset about the book because of another characteristic of mine: that I am a woman. Submission carries such a heavy burden for real events that its pages fail to meet the expectations placed on them. The book follows a professor of literature, solitary and indifferent, who sees […]

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5/15/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:3 |

The Shack

The Shack by William P. Young

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In The Shack we follow Mackenzie Phillips’ (Mack). Mack has five children, two of them are out of the house. On Labor Day weekend, Mack takes his three youngest children, a son and two daughters, camping at Wallowa Lake near Joseph, Oregon. Mack’s wife, Nan, is unable to join them. They spend the long weekend there exploring the area and having a good time. On the last morning, the older of the two children on the trip, go for one last canoe ride on the lake. It is at this time that disaster strikes. While on the canoe, it flips, trapping his son below […]

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5/7/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:30 |

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