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the Sanderson sisters are still my favorite witchy siblings, but the Owens family are not messing around!

Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman

October 27, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos 2 Comments

Lookout y’all, it’s re-read time! Alice Hoffman used to be a favorite author of mine; we slowly went our separate ways after The Museum of Extraordinary Things. There was no big breakup; we just grew apart. We wanted different things. The separation was so slow and gentle that I forgot that she was an author that I really liked, so I was pleasantly surprised to see that there was a new prequal to Practical Magic hitting the shelves, oh wait, there already was a prequal? This […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Alice Hoffman, audio book, girl power, kitchen sink magic, magical realism, movie adaptation, pop magic, reread, series starter, sisterhood, Sisters

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:113 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Alice Hoffman, audio book, girl power, kitchen sink magic, magical realism, movie adaptation, pop magic, reread, series starter, sisterhood, Sisters ·
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I’m just here for Lisbeth

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

October 2, 2020 by teresaelectro 1 Comment

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was my Mocha Girls Read book club pick for May with the theme of Scandanavian Mystery. When the original book came out, I was aware of the hype but opted for the film adaptations. I enjoy all incarnations, so I figured the novel would grip me. Instead, I found myself getting a bit impatient with the plot when it didn’t focus on the titular “The Girl”. The story follows a journalist named Mikael Blomkvist who has been hired by […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: book one, cbr12bingo, movie adaptation, mystery, Series, Stieg Larsson, stolen money, swedish novel, the girl with the dragon tattoo, thriller

teresaelectro's CBR12 Review No:13 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: book one, cbr12bingo, movie adaptation, mystery, Series, Stieg Larsson, stolen money, swedish novel, the girl with the dragon tattoo, thriller ·
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Surprisingly, This is Not for the “Book is Better” Square

August 1, 2018 by Jen K 4 Comments

Bingo Square: Home, Something, Home I started watching the movie adaptation of this on a recent plane trip, and only realized once I was further into it, that Love, Simon was based on the novel Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda, an often reviewed novel on Cannonball Read. My main motivation for starting the movie is that I quite liked the lead actor in Everything, Everything (I like that both the lead actors in that movie are basically working their way through YA film adaptions […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: becky albertalli, cbr10bingo, LGBTQ, movie adaptation, simon vs. the homo sapiens agenda

Post by Jen K · Genres: Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: becky albertalli, cbr10bingo, LGBTQ, movie adaptation, simon vs. the homo sapiens agenda ·
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I don’t have to put up with this! I’m rich!

May 27, 2018 by kdm 4 Comments

I decided to step outside my comfort zone and pick up Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan in anticipation of the incredibly-cast movie coming out this year. (Constance Wu in ALL of the things!) After a brief prologue story to set up just how crazy rich these families are, we get to our main characters: Nick Young and Rachel Chu, enjoying their relatively simple lives in New York City.  Two professors at NYU (history and economics, respectively), they’ve been dating for 2 years when Nick […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: crazy rich asians, Kevin Kwan, movie adaptation, romance

Post by kdm · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: crazy rich asians, Kevin Kwan, movie adaptation, romance ·
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Book Club Discussion Post: A Wrinkle in Time

February 23, 2018 by MsWas 15 Comments

Here we go, time to discuss A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle!  For many of you, this was a reread of a childhood book. For others, it was your first time delving into L’Engle’s worlds; but we’ve all heard the title over the years, and it’s been a bastion of Science Fiction since the sixties. Science fiction has often been used as a way to explore “otherness” as a theme. Alien beings and distant worlds offer us a way to think about different cultures […]

Filed Under: Book Club, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: book club, book club discussion, CannonBookChat, CannonBookClub, CannonBookDiscussion, Madeleine L'Engle, movie adaptation

Post by MsWas · Genres: Book Club, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: book club, book club discussion, CannonBookChat, CannonBookClub, CannonBookDiscussion, Madeleine L'Engle, movie adaptation ·
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