Cannonball Read 10

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Snubbed? Sure, but still a winning story

The Birchback House by Louise Erdrich

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If I am reading my research correctly, Louise Erdrich’s The Birchback House was a 1999 National Book Award Finalist. I know this book was on my shelf for a long time, but I was saving it for the Snubbed category which is no shame as it went up against some AMAZING books. She went up against Kimberly Willis Holt (winner. Yay! LOVED the book/author), Laurie Halse Anderson’s Speak (OMG! What a book/author!), Polly Horvath (did not read Trolls but she is very good) and Walter Dean Myers (I have loved him since I first read him…I sadly never got to […]

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9/24/2018 |

I was in love with the night even before I was in love with the girl

Kaleidoscope Song by Fox Benwell

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It starts in a bar. One of ours, in the heart of Khayelitsha. Nothing special on the outside but inside, tonight, two hundred people cram together beneath the corrugated roof and wait, turned out in their Friday Bests, because everyone knows you have to look good for the radio (1).   Thanks to the great curating at my local public library, I stumbled onto this book totally by accident—intrigued by its cover and by the description on the inside flap.  I had just seen the somewhat bland movie, Alex Strangelove, on Netflix and so I was intrigued by a coming […]

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9/24/2018 |

Women talking, getting comfortable with anger

Women Talking by Miriam Toews

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I picked up Miriam Toews’ newest novel, Women Talking, in the airport recently. I felt very lucky because it ticked so many boxes for me – I had run out of reading material on a work trip so really needed a book, it was in those new resell displays at the news stand so it was discounted enough to get through my NO NEW BOOK PURCHASES embargo, it fits with my vow to read more Canadian literature, and it was published in 2018. Toews has included a note at the beginning of the novel, characterizing it as a fictional reaction […]

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9/23/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:21 |

“When am I giving up? I’m not. I did not give up on myself then. I am not giving up on you now.” (CBR10Bingo)

The Governess Game (Girl Meets Duke #2) by Tessa Dare

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I love a fun, feminist, anachronistic romance novel and that is something that Tessa Dare delivers regularly. Dare writes what I fondly refer to as Historical Fantasy Romance. There is *some* historically accurate details running through her narrative but they are very thin and often bent to suit her plot needs. In the second outing in the Girl Meets Duke series we’re following Alex Mountbatten, introduced in The Duchess Deal, who makes her living by setting clocks to Greenwich Mean Time. Following a terrible, and hysterically inappropriate interview for a governess position she doesn’t realize she’s being interviewed for, Alex […]

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9/23/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:46 |

In which I parody Kurt Vonnegut to stick it to cancer

God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian by Kurt Vonnegut

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CBR 10 Bingo: Birthday – Kurt Vonnegut born November 11, 1922 This is Kim Pendergest, Cannonball Read 10’s reporter on the Afterlife. During yesterday’s controlled near-death experience, I interviewed Kurt Vonnegut and asked him to explain why he decided to write God Bless Dr. Kevorikian. “So what’s the deal?” I asked. “Was this just a cash-grab?” “Not at all,” he said, “I started writing these as 90-second spots for WNYC, the public radio station for New York City.” “Thanks for the exposition, but I know that already. And that’s all well and good, but why bind these into a book […]

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9/23/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:23 |

This one I read in 24 hours

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

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I bought this book on a camping trip stopover a few years ago. I wanted to read it so badly, but was always waiting for what seemed like the right time; some books are like that for me. It has been sitting in my TBR pile ever since and it finally felt right to read it this last week, a reward for finally finishing a book I really struggled through. It was an excellent reward; I haven’t been this obsessed with finishing a book since Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was released. Sherman Alexie has written a book that […]

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9/23/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:20 |

“Home was warm and normal until it wasn’t”

Now My Heart is Full by Laura June

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Bingo Square: Not in My Wheelhouse When Laura June’s daughter, Zelda, is born, she thinks ‘I wish my mother were here’. A mother who has been dead for several years, and from whom Laura was estranged due to her mother’s alcoholism. Yet the birth of her daughter makes her feel closer to her mother than she has in some time, and in raising her daughter she begins to have some understanding of what her mother went through. There are common threads in motherhood that cannot be severed, and she feels more of a connection to the women her family who […]

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9/22/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:35 |

Long before Team Edward and Team Jacob, there was Team Poirot and Team Marple

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

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CBR Bingo entry: Brain Candy Back when I was in grade school, I devoured Agatha Christie novels. I didn’t keep track, but I bet I read a good third of the 66 detective novels she wrote in her lifetime, and I was firmly on Team Poirot. Sure, Miss Marple is a sweet old lady, but I preferred the peculiar Belgian detective who was forever getting mistaken for a Frenchman. Nevertheless, I’m not sure whether I ever read Murder on the Orient Express before now. Normally I’m excellent at remembering what I’ve read, even if I’m sketchy on the details, but […]

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9/22/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:22 |


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