Cannonball Read 11

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Any man who can spend a million a year and have nothing to show for it, don’t need a recommendation from anybody.

Brewster's Millions by George Barr McCutcheon

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So somewhere in the back of my mind, I knew this was a book. I saw the movie about a dozen or more times as a kid, the one with Richard Pryor and John Candy, where Brewster is a minor-league baseball player, learns that he has a dead uncle who leaves him $300 million under the contract that he must first spend $30 million in 30 days. He runs for president, he hires the Yankees to play his ball club, he invests in icebergs, and he ends up finding out that people are parasites. The novel that it is based […]

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5/21/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:284 |

Deliverance

Severance by Ling Ma

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Severance meanders; take that for what it is and don’t expect more from it and it becomes a valuable exploration of memory in contrast to the present. It’s for people who live in cities and love walking them, both familiar and unfamiliar parts. It’s for people who work because they need to do something, anything, nevermind, what it actually is. It’s for immigrants and people who feel trapped between more than one place, who have matured over states and provinces and cities and across lines. It’s for millennials who understand they can’t just live outside the system; there is no […]

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5/19/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:9 |

Why will you young men continue to write about things that are so entirely uninteresting as the mentality of adolescents and artists?

Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley

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I still feel quite underserved by my British Modernism professor in college who had us read some truly great novels (and by great I mean important, iconic and mostly rewarding in terms of scope and challenge) Women in Love, A Passage to India, The Good Soldier, but then made us read Brave New World. And I like Brave New World, but it’s parodic and satirical and it is rewarding kind of, but it’s a book I read in high school and didn’t really help me grow as a reader in college. Also, it made me think that Aldous Huxley only […]

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5/19/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:273 |

A delightful read for at home by yourself

The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang

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This book has been much reviewed here over at CBR and I probably won’t be adding much except: don’t read this at work. This book does not fade to black and you will feel weird about it. This is a book for reading at home while your partner is out of town and you are curled up on the couch with a glass of wine. That is the perfect scenario for The Kiss Quotient. The plot boils down to – Stella is 30 years old, professional successful, and when she measures herself against her peers, seemingly behind in the dating department. […]

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5/15/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:39 |

It is bad enough that one of us be in its shadow.

The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle

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Look at this absolutely ridiculous cover! And man! Anyway, this is the fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel and it’s much too like the others for its own good. It would be one thing if this was purely structural, but it’s not. In this novel Holmes is brought on to a case of a home invasion and self-defense murder….just a man getting shot in the face with a shotgun. And as the crime and investigation unfolds, we are treated to a very long section in which the interested party tells us about American intrigue! Wherein in a small town in […]

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5/12/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:260 |

Hits all the high notes, and yet…

The Girl With All The Gifts by M. R. Carey

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This novel is a modern-day retelling of the story of Pandora (as the literal translation of the title ‘The Girl With All The Gifts’). A plague of fungus has wiped out most of humanity, hijacking the bodies of the infected and using them to spread the downfall further. Yet through the hopelessness emerges a group of children who have retained their humanity and intelligence, despite the infection. It is hypothesised that they may hold hope for the cure. They live wild on the streets of London but, when captured and brought to heel, they can be taught. They can reason. […]

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5/5/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:9 |

Let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

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A lightly fictionalized memoir, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is Betty Smith’s story of growing up in the slums of Brooklyn in the early 1900s.  Her mother’s family are German immigrants, her father’s family are Irish immigrants, and both sides are poor and lacking formal education.  When her mother, Katie, is 18, she marries her charming musician boyfriend, Johnny Nolan.  Their firstborn, Betty’s stand-in Francie Nolan, arrives less than a year later and is followed quickly by a son, Cornelius called Neely.  Johnny is a beautiful singer but not a reliable income earner, and so the family moves frequently and […]

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5/2/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:19 |

Get your Wild Kratts here!

Wild Sea Creatures: Sharks, Whales and Dolphins by Kratt Brothers

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This is not your parents Kratt Brothers. Or more likely, your Kratt Brothers. Chris and Martin Kratt took their love of animals and nature and turned it into various television shows and books. Here in the Wild Kratts (based on one television series) the brothers, in their cartoon style illustrations, created a level two reader about the critters of the sea. Very basic information can be found in Wild Sea Creatures: Sharks, Whales and Dolphins. The aged aimed for (like many level twos, but not all as have mentioned before, each publisher has their own system) is for the middle […]

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4/23/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:138 |


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