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The Audiobook is Amazing!

One More Thing by B.J. Novak

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One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories by B.J. Novak My rating: 4 of 5 stars “One More Thing” by B.J. Novak is a funny, dark, cynical, deep, well-written collection of short stories. I highly recommend listening to the audiobook because several famous comedians/celebrities and Novak himself read the stories. While there’s a grab bag of different tones throughout the stories, there’s several stories that have a real grit to them. While sometimes this grit is housed in some absurd scenarios, there’s no mistaking that there’s some truth behind them. There’s not a lot that made me stop and think, […]

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12/2/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:14 |

What Happens When We Finally Colonize Mars

The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

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The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury My rating: 4 of 5 stars “The Martian Chronicles” by Ray Bradbury was originally written as separate short stories. After being submitted to his publisher, the publisher told Bradbury to connect the short stories into a cohesive collection about the planet Mars and its subsequent colonization of the planet. Each year I teach “There Will Come Soft Rain” by Bradbury and until reading “The Martian Chronicles” I had no idea the two were related. Granted, the inclusion of “Soft Rain” in the “Chronicles” is abstract at best. In fact, it really could’ve been excluded […]

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12/2/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:13 |

Until then I am a red balloon, a balloon tied to an anchor

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

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Another book from my list of 50 Books Every Woman Should Read Before She Turns 40 was The House on Mango Street (1984) by Sandra Cisneros. I did not realize this until I had actually finished Mango Street, but I’d already read Caramelo by Cisneros years ago and enjoyed it. I like repeating authors when I appreciate their writing, and I was again impressed by Cisneros’s writing and perspective with this book. However, I was always looking for more detail, and I often felt left behind and looking for more. The House on Mango Street is a relatively short novel made up of a number of brief, poetic […]

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12/1/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:53 |

Murderbot is the depressed and anxious android you’ve always needed. (CBR10 Bingo 10 & 11)

All Systems Red by Martha Wells

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Bless Cannonball Read, praise be for friends who you know share a similar taste in books, and let the world rejoice for Murderbot. Because November is a busy time here at Cannonball Read (I still have half the assignment emails for Book Exchange to send out) I’ll be using a slightly modified plot summary from Goodreads: In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. Exploratory teams are (required to be) accompanied by Company-supplied security androids, for their own safety. But in a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest bidder (you’re shocked, […]

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11/29/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:57 |

“Happiness? He wasn’t even sure what that meant.”

Men Without Women: Stories by Haruki Murakami

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Sometimes a year feels fast, and sometimes a year feels slow. Sometimes a year feels like both! That’s been my year with Murakami. It feels like he’s always been a favorite author of mine, but when I look back, I hadn’t read a word of his until early this year. Now I average a Murakami book every couple of months.  This particular book is different than the previous works I’ve read simply because it’s not a novel. It’s a collection of seven stories about, you guessed it, men without women. Or, maybe, men with too many women. Or too many […]

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11/23/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:66 |

Meh

Nine Women, One Dress by Jane L. Rosen

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My book club chose Nine Women, One Dress (2016) by Jane L. Rosen as our latest book. It looked like a short and easy read, and I was hopeful that I would enjoy it. You can probably get a good guess at the plot from the title. There is one little, black dress of the season that significantly affects nine women’s lives. Some of the stories were entertaining, and Rosen did a good job of weaving the dress through her characters’ lives. I really enjoyed the beginning of this book. However, as the book wore on, I found it more difficult to […]

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11/21/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:49 |

Add Friday Black to your Black Friday shopping list!

Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

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[BINGO #2!] In this most holy month of guerrilla bargain shopping which begins with the Happy Holiday season of Black Fridays and Cyber Mondays, I couldn’t think of a better book to review than Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah. Both Roxanne Gay and George Saunders are singing the praises of this fresh young author, and everyone should be reading this outstanding collection of short stories. Adjei-Brenyah’s tales whipsaw between dystopian near futures of shopping madness in “Friday Black,” where stores just pile up the dead bodies so shoppers can consume without disruption, to the boundary-pushing of legal justifications for *freedom* in the […]

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11/21/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:23 |

Sea Section seems like a perfectly reasonable name for a beach house.

Calypso by David Sedaris

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So I picked Calypso by David Sedaris as my “Brain Candy” square for CBR10 Bingo, which after reading it, seems like maybe not the best choice, because these short stories are a bit darker than usual. Sedaris’ sister Tiffany committed suicide in 2013, and this, his mother’s alcoholism, and a strange tumour growing on his side become the running topics in many of the stories in his first compilation in five years. Calypso is still hilariously funny, in exactly the ways you expect it to be. I’ve always had a soft spot for Sedaris and his entire family, mostly because they’re from North Carolina […]

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11/14/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:22 |


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