Cannonball Read 9

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Book Club Discussion Post: In Praise of Hatred

In Praise of Hatred by Khaled Khalifa

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Welcome to our third book club chat of the year: In Praise of Hatred by Khaled Khalifa. I’m interested to hear what everyone’s reading experiences were like with this book. Ground rules remain the same as they always have. For those of you who might be joining us 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 conversation topics they are looking for. If you are responding to someone else’s thoughts, please try to respond directly […]

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9/13/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:0 |

Discussion Topics: In Praise of Hatred

In Praise of Hatred by Khaled Khalifa

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Our September book club is coming up quickly, we’re just two weeks away. Our non-western literary fiction choice In Praise of Hatred by Khaled Khalifa has lots for the reader to absorb and think about. Our group chat about this book will get going around 2 p.m. Eastern on Wednesday September 13th, both here and in our Facebook group, the Book Chat. Book Club is open to anyone and everyone. If there’s a topic, thought or opinion you’d like to see addressed, leave a comment down below and I’ll see what I can do about getting it included in the main post […]

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8/31/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:0 |

Book Announcement: #CannonBookClub Reads Non-Western Literary Fiction

In Praise of Hatred by Khaled Khalifa

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The votes have been counted and Khaled Khalifa’s In Praise of Hatred will be our September #CannonBookClub read! Our goal is always to expand our reading, so if this wasn’t your first choice, I as always hope you’ll make room in the next several weeks for both. #CannonBookClub convenes on Wednesday, September 13. I’ll be posting a Discussion Topics post two weeks before our discussion. As in previous Book Clubs, feel free to visit us here on the group blog for the dedicated post or in our Facebook Cannonball Read Book Chat group where I’ll have even more topics to discuss. For a little more about […]

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7/27/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:0 |

Book Club Reads Non-Western Literary Fiction – Voting!

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Voting for this #CannonBookClub is now closed. The selection is In Praise of Hatred by Khaled Khalifa. Buy it online at amazon, and please join us on September 13 for our discussion. Who’s ready for an ambitious summer read? Here at the #CannonBookClub we are always on the lookout to expand our horizons and try new and different genres, so this summer we are going to go in the direction of Literary Fiction. Our twist this time is that we will be focusing on Non-Western authors. This is a very broad literary arena, so in order to find something new for […]

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7/20/2017 | |

Discussion Topics: Life Moves Pretty Fast

Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned From Eighties Movies (And Why We Don’t Learn Them From Movies Anymore) by Hadley Freeman

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Our Discussion Post is live – join us now to discuss Life Moves Pretty Fast.  We’re quickly approaching our second Book Club of the year: Non-fiction. Life Moves Pretty Fast by Hadley Freeman won the vote, and we are just over a week to go time. Our group chat about Eighties Movies and this book will get going around 2 p.m. Eastern on Wednesday June 14 both here and in our Facebook group, the Book Chat. Book Club is open to anyone and everyone, and with this choice’s theme I imagine we’ll all have lots to say. If there’s a pressing […]

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6/5/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:0 |

Book Announcement: #CannonBookClub Reads Non-Fiction

Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned from Eighties Movies by Hadley Freeman

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With nearly 50% of the vote, our book club choice for June is Life Moves Pretty Fast: Lessons We Learned from Eighties Movies by Hadley Freeman. Check out the discussion questions, and join the discussion starting June 14th.  As always, I hope that if your vote wasn’t our final choice, that you’ll make the time to read both at some point during Cannonball Read 9 (for those that are curious, the runner up was Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood by William J. Mann). I’ll be posting a Discussion Topics post two weeks before our discussion, which is scheduled for […]

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4/20/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:0 |

Intellectually interesting, not so much enjoyable for me.

The Devourers by Indra Das

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Well, I think I’ve put this review off long enough, and it will be a short one, since our fantastic discussion last month covered a LOT of ground. The Devourers is certainly an original take on werewolves, I’ll give it that, but this book was just not for me. I get intellectually what it was going for, and in parts I was engaged, but overall, I just didn’t care. At the beginning of the book, I actively disliked it. As many have said in their reviews, for me it got better once the book switched narrators to the female character, […]

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4/13/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:31 |

Book Club Reads Non-Fiction – Voting

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Voting for this Book Club is Closed. Come see what we chose on our Announcement Post, and join us on June 14. It is time once again friends to decide what book we want to tackle as a group. Following a great discussion, if not great reading, for our Fantasy pick, it’s time to head in a new direction, west you might say – and fall into some Non-fiction about the history of Hollywood. Below you will find our four choices, which cover different times and topics within the broad view of Hollywood’s History. I have stayed away from biographies […]

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4/12/2017 | |

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