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Discussion Topics Preview: Station Eleven

March 10, 2020 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

The Station Eleven discussion post is still live, and you can still comment on that discussion. My lovely fellow Cannonballers, are you ready to make a return trip to Station Eleven? Let this post serve as your official reminder – we are 10 days away from book club on Friday March 20 and Saturday March 21.  Really interesting reviews of Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven are already up, and I’m about midway through my current reread. I’m  getting excited for what’s ahead. If you were here […]

Filed Under: Book Club Tagged With: 5th anniversary, book club read, CannonBookChat, CannonBookClub, Discussion Topics, faintingiviolet, Station Eleven

Genres: Book Club · Tags: 5th anniversary, book club read, CannonBookChat, CannonBookClub, Discussion Topics, faintingiviolet, Station Eleven ·
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faintingviolet gave me this book right before Carrie Fisher died, and I’m only now not too sad to read it.

February 16, 2018 by narfna 4 Comments

I’ve really been trying to make an effort in 2018 to read books I already own. Currently the amount of books I own but haven’t read, including in audio and e-book, numbers around 221. faintingviolet gave me this book in the CBR book exchange in December 2016, two weeks before Carrie Fisher died. Even though I was beyond excited to finally have it in my possession, since it had been on my TBR for years and I’d never gotten around to it, I just couldn’t make myself read […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor Tagged With: #memoir, adapted, carrie fisher, Celebrity Memoir, ECT, faintingiviolet, humor, manic depression, narfna, Non-Fiction, Psychology, read harder challenge 2018, star wars, wishful drinking

narfna's CBR10 Review No:24 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor · Tags: #memoir, adapted, carrie fisher, Celebrity Memoir, ECT, faintingiviolet, humor, manic depression, narfna, Non-Fiction, Psychology, read harder challenge 2018, star wars, wishful drinking ·
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