Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

“The poems were cool. The best ones were like bombs, and when all the right words came together it was like an explosion.”

The Crossover, Booked by Kwame Alexander

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I’m still making my way through the constantly growing pile of books I need to read for work. I need to be able to comment on some of our “new and noteworthy” books picks, so if parents or teachers want recommendations, I can easily help them out. Oh, your kid likes dark fantasy and Neil Gaiman? Try The Girl Who Drank The Moon. You say your kid likes sports, but really isn’t much of a reader? Well, then get some books by Kwame Alexander. And get them now. These books are my first foray into reading stories told in prose. […]

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9/23/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:54 |

Twelve metres of shorn grass

The Rules of Backyard Cricket by Jock Serong

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Darren Keefe is “…a talented freak with no mooring,” a bad boy cricketer that never quite reaches his potential. As a young player rocketing towards the pinnacle of Australian cricket, Darren had little oversight or true coaching – no one wanted to change what was working, and if a coach tried to reel him in, his mother switched him to another team. When he starts making money, the troubles start: drugs, drinking, corruption in cricket, toxic masculinity, and so forth. There is a noir mystery threading throughout the book, although this is less successful for me than the character development […]

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9/6/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:6 |

A book that I purchased solely based on judging it’s cover.

Beartown by Fredrik Backman

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 I’m so stereotypically Canadian, that I picked this up because of the hockey game on the cover.  True story.  #sorrynotsorry Beartown is a small rural village (in what I’m assuming is Sweden, although I don’t think it ever specified) that is slowly dying.  Their only hope for economic revival is their junior hockey team – a championship win will secure them as the site for a new elite hockey academy which will bring people and businesses back to the area. But before that final game, at a drunken teenage party, the star player rapes the coach’s daughter.  What follows is […]

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7/17/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:26 |

I Kind of Just Feel Nothing with this One

Pop by Gordon Korman

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There’s a café in our city with a little “library” that encourages visitors to swap books (leave one, take one), and I’m pretty sure at the moment they have about 4 full sets of all the Twilight series? In any case, on Canada Day, I impulsively did a switcheroo, and got my friend to point at a random book for me to take, which led me to picking up Pop by Gordon Korman. Well, initially it was something like “Vampie Lovers 2” or whatever but I said, I can’t read this if I haven’t read the FIRST one, now can I? But I digress… […]

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7/11/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:15 |

Still don’t know anything about tennis…

Double Fault by Lionel Shriver

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I had issues with this book.  Yes, I know, I have issues with everything, but once again, they really got in the way of my enjoyment of the book.  First off, this is a romance.  That’s okay.  It also isn’t a romance at all.  It isn’t much of anything, because a lot of the issues at the core of the book – ambition, the definition of love, coupleship, the spread of one person in a relationship, the cult of the self – they’re all so very subjective.  Me, personally, if I have a stable relationship, I don’t feel ambition.  Or […]

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7/4/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:9 |

The Game Within the Game After the Game

Game 7, 1986 by Ron Darling

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This is a book for a niche audience. Obviously you’d have to be a baseball fan to even have a passing interest, but on top of that you’d really need to be a Mets fan to care enough to read it. Not only that but you’d probably have to be old enough to remember the 1986 Mets or at least have a specific interest in that historic team. It would also help if you were given the book by your mom. For those of you who don’t know and are still reading this for some reason, Ron Darling was a […]

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6/30/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:23 |

A quarterback and a photographer try to be friends, end up as lovers

The Hot Shot by Kristen Callihan

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First of all, I want to warn my fellow romance readers that there are a LOT of distracting typos in this book. Normally, while I’m a complete grammar nazi in my daily life(comes with being a language teacher, I suspect), I am nonetheless usually able to ignore the occasional typo in my romances, mainly because I don’t tend to read them all THAT closely. But in this book, there were enough that it bothered even me and took me out of the story on occasion. I know stuff like that can be a deal-breaker for some, hence the friendly warning. […]

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5/7/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:42 |

Pee Wee, Jackie, and the Duke

The Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn

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The Boys of Summer isn’t quite what you expect. Though it covers the familiar ground of the great Brooklyn Dodger teams of the ’50s, the author’s unique position and the hybrid framework of this memoir create a little gem of a book that is full of the stuff of life. Heartbreak, struggle, accomplishment, valor, friendship, bigotry and death all arising from a child’s game played by adults. Kahn served as the Herald Tribune’s beat reporter for the Dodgers for a few seasons in the early ’50s, missing both the historically crucial 1947 season in which Jackie Robinson broke the color […]

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4/13/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:13 |


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