Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

History AND true crime? Yes please.

Underworld London: Crime and Punishment in the Capital City by Catharine Arnold

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I’ve gotten somewhat behind with my reviewing after taking a week out in incredibly sunny Crete, so please forgive my brain dump whilst I catch up. First up for my holiday reads was Underworld London, combining my fascinations with true crime and history into one entertaining and informative book in the company of Catharine Arnold, someone who I’ve already read much of and enjoyed. Underworld London takes a look at crime and punishment throughout London’s history, from the medieval executions for pretty much anything (with over 170 capital offences recorded at one point, you could be hung or burnt at […]

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6/19/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:40 |

A disappointing history of Nancy Drew, my childhood hero.

Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her by Melanie Rehak

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So aside from this gorgeous Scandinavian fairytale book I used to repeatedly check out from the library as a child*, the Nancy Drew books make up the entirety of my first real literary memories. When you have a bookworm for a child, know that that child will scour your entire house for any book it can find**, and will then proceed to read any and all books indiscriminately. This works out well for the child, generally, but you should know it’s going to happen. That’s how I found my mom’s collection of all the original run Nancy Drew books, up […]

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6/14/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:42 |

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 |

To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.

Night by Elie Wiesel

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I will not review this as a book. This is not a book. It may be published as a book. It has a title, an author. A cover with neat little blurbs on the back from Oprah Winfrey, from the New York Times. WINNER OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE written on the front. All of it seems garish compared to what is inside. This is a witness. “To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.” Wiesel describes his life before the concentration camp, the ghetto’s, being taken away, being assimilated into the daily life of […]

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5/22/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:13 |

War, what is it good for?

History of England, Vol III: Civil War by Peter Ackroyd

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I thoroughly enjoyed this, the third volume of Peter Ackroyd’s History of England, which covers a period of our history that I knew virtually nothing about (I don’t think I can really count Horrible Histories’ Charles II song as ‘knowledge’), from the succession of James I following the death of the childless Elizabeth I through to the flight of James II, taking in the civil war and the unprecedented execution of a king that happened in between. Here’s what I learned… James I of England, also James IV of Scotland, was the first Stuart king, uniting the English and Scottish […]

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5/4/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:29 |

Make Good Trouble

March, Books 1-3 by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell

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The March Trilogy, winner of the 2016 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, is a first-hand account of the civil rights movement in the United States as told by one of its leaders, Congressman John Lewis of Georgia. These graphic novels span the years 1960-65 and are presented as John Lewis’ recollections on January 20, 2009 — the day of President Obama’s first inauguration. This is an amazing memoir that is not only accessible to young readers, but would most likely be an eye-opener to many adults. Even if you think you know about the civil rights movement, John […]

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4/25/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:16 |

The Kind of Stuff They Don’t Teach You About At Church

The Mormon Menace: Violence and Anti-Mormonism in the Postbellum South by Patrick Q. Mason

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“A Mormon has a right to believe what he will. His thoughts may be as free as the unconfined air, and his conscience should by no means be restrained by legal enactments. But his acts are quest a different thing.” -Raleigh News and Observer, July 20, 1881

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4/12/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:11 |

In which everyone gets the clap

City of Sin: by Catharine Arnold

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Written with an easy style that informs as well as entertains, City of Sin is an eagle-eyed view of the English branch of the world’s oldest profession through the ages, from the first girls brought in chains to our shores for the sport of the Romans, right up to modern sex workers advertising on the internet, scoring publishing deals and causing the Daily Mail to work themselves into self-righteous froths. Taking in those who chose to enter the profession as well as those forced into in through one means or another, from the poorest street walker to the semi-celebrity kept […]

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4/7/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:22 |

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