Cannonball Read 9

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Not A Thing To Be Fixed

It's OK That You're Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn't Understand by Megan Devine

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Best for: Those who are grieving, or those who want to be better prepared to support those who are grieving. In a nutshell: People who are grieving deserve better than what society offers them. This book attempts to provide some direction towards that. Line that sticks with me: “We have to be able to see what’s true without fear of being seen as weak, damaged, or somehow failing the cultural storyline.” (p 54). Why I chose it: Ms. Devine spoke at an event I attended this past weekend, and was kind enough to also sell her book to attendees prior […]

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9/13/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:74 |

Widow author and bad boy rock star – the book is really good!

True North by Liora Blake

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Kate Mosely is a widow living alone and rather lonely in the little town of Crowell, Montana. She more or less runs the local newspaper she inherited from her father (with help from his old business partner), but her small claim to fame is writing a novel that’s become a bestseller, much thanks to her persistent and aggressive literary agent, Stephen. Now, hoping to create more buzz for the book, as well as spurring Kate into writing a second novel, he’s booked her on several TV appearances in LA. Kate is to appear first on a prestigious late night talk […]

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8/10/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:72 |

“Stories are the wildest thing of all, the monster rumbled. Stories chase and bite and hunt.

A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness

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Pretty much every night, Conor wakes up screaming from the same nightmare. So when the monster shows up in his garden, just after midnight, he’s not as scared as you may have thought that he’d be. After all, he deals with some pretty unpleasant things on a daily basis. The bullies who pick on him in school. The fact that he seems to be falling out with his only friend. The teachers either ignoring him or being overly understanding and solicitous. His father, who seems to have forgotten about him and his mother after he moved to America and got […]

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6/25/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:57 |

Dying Is Just A Verb

On Living by Kerry Egan

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Best for: Someone who wants to provoke (a bit of) deeper thinking on the ways we live our lives. In a nutshell: A hospice chaplain uses stories from families and individuals she has assisted to make sense of life. Line that sticks with me: “The things you lose do shape who you become. But the losses don’t obliterate what came before.” Why I Chose It: This was an impulse buy only in that it was on my list and I didn’t yet own it. I added this one when I saw it being mentioned in multiple different forums. But yesterday, […]

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1/15/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:2 |

Trouble in paradise

The Descendants by Kaui Hart Hemmings

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I fell head over heels for the movie adaptation of The Descendants a few years back. This family dealing with their grief struck me as true to life. The loss of a loved one can be overwhelming but life still goes forward, even when you’re dying inside. The Descendants captured that dichotomy and I’ve been meaning to read the book ever since. The novel centers on Matt King and his family. Matt’s great grandmother was a Hawaiian princess and he and his cousins are the owners of some large amounts of Hawaiian land. They’re trying to decide what to do […]

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12/31/2016 | 's CBR8 Review No:74 |

The Hidden Chamber

Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders by Neil Gaiman

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I got on the library queue for this book because I knew that it contains “The Monarch of the Glen,” which is the novella follow-up to American Gods. I am committed to my American Gods love, and wanted to complete my library of knowledge of all things Shadow. But this book, oh, this wonderful book. It’s a collection of some of the most beautiful poetry and short stories, in perfect Gaiman-ian language, set in dark landscapes that are undeniably his. I could pick these works as his out of a lineup. His introduction is very lengthy, describing the circumstances of […]

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10/30/2016 | 's CBR8 Review No:42 |

Frantic Avoidance

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers

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As a piece of art, I have to give it to Dave Eggers. AHBWOSG is carefully composed, wonderfully constructed, funny, poignant, and moving. But it’s also a pile of emotional bullshit that took me ages to read, and I couldn’t get away from it fast enough once I had inhaled the last intentionally-breakneck run-on paragraph. I have now moved on, immediately and purposefully, to “Men Explain Things to Me.”   But back to the “Staggering Genius,” which is a memoir, slightly fictionalized, as Eggers explains in his astonishingly long and hilarious preface (which he tells you not to bother reading, […]

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3/17/2016 | 's CBR8 Review No:9 |

“That’s what the cool people who mock breeders don’t understand: that there can be a love bigger than two people.”

Note from the Internet Apocalypse by Wayne Gladstone

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After breezing through the David Wong books, it seemed a natural next step to check out his Cracked colleague, Wayne Gladstone. I can’t say I came away from this book with near the excitement or sense of joy. There’s something lacking, here. Specifically, the first three quarters of the book leave much to be desired. In the world of Notes from the Internet Apocalypse, the internet has mysteriously disappeared, leaving the world in, well, pretty much the same state it’s currently in. Ignore the “apocalypse” in the title. This is less The Road and more a weekend with poor internet […]

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2/20/2016 | 's CBR8 Review No:17 |

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