The votes have been counted and Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo is the selection for the May 2022 AAPI-themed book club! Learn how book club works and when you can join in on the discussion in the announcement post. May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month (or AAPIHM for short) in the United States and was created by Congress in 1992. Here at Cannonball Read we’ll be celebrating its 30th anniversary by focusing on authors who fall within the roughly 50 ethnic […]
Worth the hype!
The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen
The Magic Fish By Trung Le Nguyen I knew this book had won awards going in, but I wasn’t really sure what to expect. Whatever awards this got, it most definitely deserved! Going in, I knew that it was about a Vietnamese boy, Tíển, struggling to find the words to come out to his parents, while bonding with them over fairy tales. But it is so much more than that. It is a story about family and immigration and survival. It’s about acceptance […]
If you haven’t already but you are able to do so, please get vaccinated. And get a flu shot.
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
BINGO – Book Club (CBR Book Club selection for 2020) A pandemic has wiped out most of the population of Earth. Very few survive to see the world collapse, but there they are. Some go wild. Some dive head first into fringe religious belief. Some take refuge in music and theater. Everyone, though, in one way or another, is trying to do more than just survive. Told through a multiple timelines, points of view, and narrative styles, Station Eleven tells the story of how people cope with […]
The worst part about reading something day 1 is that you have the wait the longest possible length of time to read the next book…
The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik
Book Club: after I indoctrinated two friends into the Gideon the Ninth world, we all grouped together to read and discuss other books. This was so good my friend had to call us in the middle of the night her time to have an impromptu “Locked Tomb Book Club” meeting. When I was doing my catch up review writing, I thought I was done and then I was just about to congratulate myself on finishing out my backlog of reviews when I sensed that I was […]
“If this is the last decision I can ever make, at least it is my decision. Let me go, Alyosha. I am not afraid.”
The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden
One of our #CannonBookClub prompts asked if there’s any special power in taking a known story and envisioning it in a new way, and for me the answer is a resounding yes. Whether its something along the lines of Longbourn where characters who are merely set dressing in the original tale are given the limelight or something like The Bear and the Nightingale where history and folktales are put into a blender, metaphorically, and something new arrives there is more often than not an engaging […]
Book Club Discussion Post: Deerskin
Welcome to our Fairy tale Adaptations book club! This go round we’ve selected four books that showed their author’s take on various fairy tales and folktales. Each of our books below have their own Discussion Posts and don’t forget, we’ll be having our Zoom Book Club on Saturday September 18 at 7 pm EDT. Other Discussions The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden Deerskin by Robin McKinley Sea Witch by Sarah Henning Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson For those of you returning […]
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