Cannonball Read 18

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So many magical bastards!

Fool’s Quest: The Fitz and The Fool Trilogy Book 2 by Robin Hobb

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Cbr18bingo Success because with this review I have achieved a bingo blackout and for the first time, I have done so without using the “free” space! Book 2 of The Fitz and The Fool Trilogy is 700+ pages of action and heartache. I know there are a few Cannonballers out there who love Hobb’s Realm … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:54 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: , , , , , , , , ·

Hey Hey, My My, Rock and Roll Will Never Die

Rock*: A Mainstream Alternative History of Alternative Mainstream Music by Chuck Klosterman

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Seemingly inspired by the trite music critic observation that The Velvet Underground & Nico only sold 10,000 copies but all 10,000 of those people went out and started a band, Chuck Klosterman's new novel Rock*: A Mainstream Alternative History of Alternative Mainstream Music imagines that music … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:72 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: ·

“The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.”

The Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham by Lucy Hughes-Hallett

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CBR18 Bingo: Right - As favorite to both James I and Charles II of England, the Duke of Buckingham served as the right hand of the king in helping govern the kingdom. When George Villiers caught the eye of James I of England, it was the start of a brilliant rise in politics and society for him. … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:68 · Genres: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: , , , , , , , , , ·

“In the modern world, in short, you are your address.”

The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power by Deirdre Mask

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CBR18 Bingo: Refuge - People's homes are meant to be their refuge, but this book makes the case that their street addresses also have a significant power over their lives. We usually think of our home addresses as the details we fill out to get mail, but the story of street names and house … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:67 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: , , , , , , ·

“You are mine until the grave makes ghosts of both of us.”

The Rain Maiden by Jill M. Phillips

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CBR18 Bingo: Or - Philippe is constantly having to choose between his relationships with Isabel and other women, who care for him on a personal level, and his relationships with the sons of Henry II, which line up instead with his grand ambitions. Isabel of Hainault is married off to the young … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:66 · Genres: Fiction, History · Tags: , , , , , , , , , ·

“… the critics who shaped our modern idea of the novel in English so frequently dismissed women writers that the systematic excising has a name. It’s called the Great Forgetting.”

Jane Austen's Bookshelf by Rebecca Romney

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Is this book my platonic ideal of a non-fiction book? Maybe. Probably. So much so that I have in fact already ordered and received my own copy of the book. Why am I not rounding it up to 5? I don’t know.   The topic was always likely to draw me in. Jane Austen's Bookshelf chronicles the women … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:28 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: , , , , ·


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