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Book Club Discussion Post: Any Sherlock Retelling

September 20, 2019 by faintingviolet 14 Comments

The time is here for our most free-form book club yet. Our goal here is to discuss any Sherlock Holmes retellings or adaptations you have read (doesn’t have to be in the past month or two) and how they reflect on both the larger mythos of Sherlock and what it takes to tell a good story based on another. For those of you returning or who might be joining in for #CannonBookClub for the first time (hello new friends!) all are welcome, you don’t have to be registered for CBR11. The topics are numbered, and we ask that you refer […]

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9/20/2019 | Post by faintingviolet
| Tags: Arthur Conan Doyle, CannonBookChat, CannonBookClub, retellings, Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Retellings | Category: Fiction | 14 Comments

“It’s quite exciting,” said Sherlock Holmes, with a yawn.” (CBR11 Bingo)

A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

A Scandal in Bohemia by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

August 18, 2019 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

My previous Sherlock experiences have all centered around visual adaptations, starting with The Great Mouse Detective (1986), but #CannonBookClub is always pushing me to read new to me things. My mind’s eye had a very specific versions of Holmes and Watson cobbled together over many incarnations Watson, to me, is an intelligent everyman who is aware of the things he does not know – as well as being a man of responsibility and duty. Sherlock is a bit testy, has a bit of tunnel vision when it comes to solving a problem or getting information he needs and is how […]

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8/18/2019 | faintingviolet's CBR11 Review No: 38 |
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| Tags: A Scandal in Bohemia, A study in scarlet, book club, CannonBookClub, cbr11bingo, classics, faintingviolet, sir arthur conan doyle | Category: Book Club, Fiction | 0 Comments

A Study in Scarlet Discussion Topics

August 2, 2019 by Mswas 3 Comments

Our discussion has begun! Please visit the discussion post to chime in. We will also be talking on our Social Media platforms, and of course in our Facebook group, Cannonball Read Book Chat, we’ll have some additional prompts so please join us there as well. Remember, you don’t have to be registered for CBR11 to speak your mind – feel free to invite a friend along! Hello Cannonballers near and far! The summer is just flying by, and it is getting close to our #Cannonbookclub discussion day! On Friday and Saturday, August 16 and 17, we’ll be meeting up here and in the Facebook group […]

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8/2/2019 | Post by Mswas
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Book Club Discussion Post: Good Omens Show Adaptation

June 14, 2019 by faintingviolet 8 Comments

The time has come, a table has become available at the Ritz, so let’s sit down and chat about Good Omens, both the television show and the book. First, some boilerplate: for those of you who might be joining in for #CannonBookClub for the first time (hello new friends!) all are welcome. The 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 reply directly to them and also tell us about your own […]

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6/14/2019 | Post by faintingviolet
| Tags: adaptation, CannonBookChat, CannonBookClub, good omens, Neil Gaiman, television show, Terry Pratchett | Category: Book Club | 8 Comments

Reminder! Good Omens Show Discussion This Weekend!

June 6, 2019 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

Hello Lovely Cannonballers! Dropping in to remind everyone that we’ll be gathering for our second chat THIS weekend to talk about the Good Omens show adaptation on Amazon. It’s another chance to talk about the book in case you missed May’s Discussion post and a chance to talk specifically about what we all think about the choices made in translating the book into a six-hour television experience. On Friday evening, June 14th, MsWas and myself will be chatting LIVE in our Cannonball Read Book Chat Facebook group at 7:30 p.m. Eastern, and I’ll be posting a Discussion Post here earlier in […]

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6/6/2019 | Post by faintingviolet
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Book Club Discussion Post: Good Omens

May 17, 2019 by faintingviolet 20 Comments

It is that time friends, our first #CannonBookClub of the year is officially underway. Good Omens is getting the television adaption treatment, but first it will get the Cannonballer experience – assuming we all survive the apocalypse of course. 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. The 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 […]

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5/17/2019 | Post by faintingviolet
| Tags: CannonBookChat, CannonBookClub, good omens, Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett | Category: Book Club | 20 Comments

Thanks, Book Club!

Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

May 7, 2019 by crystalclear Leave a Comment

So I’m giving this another go due to book club and the series coming out (which looks awesome!)  But there is a reason I didn’t read it until now. I bought the book a while ago (10 years ago?) and it was just hanging out in my TBR pile.  Then I started dating a guy, and he recommended that I read it. So dug it out and put it on top of the pile. Then we broke up. And I couldn’t seem to get past the first few pages of the book!  And so it was tainted by ghost of […]

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5/7/2019 | crystalclear's CBR11 Review No: 33 |
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| Tags: book club, CannonBookClub, CBR Book Club, cbr11, good omens, Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett | Category: Book Club, Fiction | 0 Comments

Good Omens Discussion Topics

May 6, 2019 by faintingviolet 3 Comments

Our Good Omens discussion is now open. Please join us there for these and other topics to discuss! This was a first time read for me, a book that has been sitting on my bookshelf, or my roommate’s, for years. I was saving it, and without getting into review/spoiler territory I can say I’m glad to have read it now. Good Omens tells us the story of what happens when The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (the world’s only completely accurate book of prophecies, written in 1655, before she exploded), is indeed correct and the world will […]

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