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I have additional rambling thoughts on Kindred

Kindred by Octavia Butler

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I’ve finally made my way to reviewing our #CannonBookClub selection, Kindred. Did I ever tell you all how happy I was that this was the one we chose? Not that I wouldn’t have happily read any of our options, but Kindred has been lurking on my to read list a long time and it fulfills two of this year’s Read Harder Challenge tasks (read a genre fiction classic, read a sci-fi novel with a female protagonist by a female author). My review is probably going to be a bit disjointed, as I wander through my thoughts and our book club […]

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6/20/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:20 |

Cannon Book Club: Kindred

Kindred by Octavia Butler

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I tend to listen to an audio-book while driving, read a paperback or thin hardcover on my lunch break and then save thicker hardcover books for at home. My copy of Kindred was a paperback so it was on the lunch rotation which meant it took me a lot longer to read than it deserved. At this point I think we all know the gist of Butler’s Kindred but here is a quickie synopsis for the lone person who missed all the other reviews and/or Book Club discussion. Dana, an African-American woman from California, is transported back to the Antebellum South, namely the […]

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6/12/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:69 |

Book Club Discussion Post: Kindred

Kindred by Octavia Butler

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The time has arrived (and no limbs were lost in the process); we’re going to spend the next two days talking about Kindred. It’s our “most popular” category Anniversary Read so I’m very interested to hear how you feel this book rates in your all-time Cannonball list. Ground rules remain the same as they always have. For those of you who might be joining in for #CannonBookClub for the first time (hello new friends!) all are welcome. All of our topics are numbered and we ask that you refer to them below by that number to help people find the […]

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6/8/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:0 |

Discussion Topics: Kindred

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Book Club Discussion is Today, June 8-9! Visit our Discussion Post and speak your mind! Our second #CannonBookClub of 2018 on June 8 and 9 is Kindred by Octavia Butler as our first of two Anniversary Reads. Kindred is an historically highly rated and reviewed book for Cannonballers: in the ten years of Cannonball Read we’ve had eleven reviews of Kindred with a Cannonballer average rating of 4.64, which is only 0.16 away from our highest rated book of all-time. It’s time to get thinking about what we’re going to talk about, and this book has any number of avenues we […]

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5/29/2018

A fantastical coming of age tale in space

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle

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When we decided to read A Wrinkle in Time for our #CannonBookClub, I was ecstatic! Perfect motivation to re-read it before the Ava Du’Vernay’s film release. Before its release, there seemed to be some negative buzz that disheartened me. I felt like I was defending the movie and the book to an extent before it hit the theaters! In the end, I managed to complete my re-read the morning before seeing the film. The refresh with the original text rekindled my childlike curiosity and sense of wonder. BEWARE OF SPOILERS FOR THE BOOK AND THE FILM BELOW! A Wrinkle in Time […]

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5/3/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:8 |

Books Announcement: #CannonBookClub Anniversary Reads

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Hello Lovely Cannonballers, did you read A Wrinkle in Time? Did you comment on our Book Club post? Did you see the movie? (I didn’t read the book, did see the movie, and I have *thoughts*). Most importantly, are you ready for two more book clubs this year? As we celebrate our tenth anniversary we asked you to vote in two categories, a well-reviewed Cannonball book (10 or more reviews and an average Cannonballer rating higher than 4.6) and something that AlabamaPink read during the first Cannonball Read. You made your voices heard, and we’re happy to announce that Friday and Saturday, […]

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4/4/2018

Across the universe

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle

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Yes, I’m one of those; I was going to reread A Wrinkle in Time because the movie is coming out, even before the book club announcement. I mean, I’m going to see it anyway (whenever my country gets it) because I trust Ava DuVernay, but I wanted to familiarize myself with the original again in advance. I first picked up the book in fourth grade, and I confess I did not appreciate at the time the opening line of “It was a dark and stormy night.” Taking a fresh look, I missed a lot of things then, but that didn’t […]

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2/23/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:2 |

“We do not know what things look like. We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing, this seeing.”

A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet, #1) by Madeleine L'Engle

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I still love this. The last time I read A Wrinkle in Time was ten years ago. I hadn’t read the book in years before that, and barely remembered it, except for a few images that had burned into my subconscious (the man with the red eyes, for example; the Murry’s vegetable garden and their laboratory; Charles Wallace; and I remembered that I thought it was terrifying). It’s basically impossible for me to read or review it now without my childhood impressions coloring it. Because I think this may be one of those cases where a book is best first […]

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2/21/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:26 |


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