Cannonball Read 11

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Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsberg – Marvelous and Glorious

Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Irin Carmon, Shana Knizhnik

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For Christmas, my husband got me dissent collar stud earrings as a stocking stuffer. I was delighted, but a little chagrined. I didn’t think I knew enough about Ruth Bader Ginsberg to call me one of her fans, and make me legitimate enough to rock the earrings. But rock them I did, because they make me feel powerful, and they are also adorable – the perfect accessories. But, I wanted to fill a bit of my RBG knowledge gap, so I jumped in the queue for Notorious RBG at my library and months later, there it was! I didn’t know […]

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4/8/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:14 |

My Kind of Town, Chicago is…

In A Pig's Eye by Robert Campbell

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In a time before both Amazon and GoodReads reviews became omnipresent, a person would pick something off the shelf because it interested them. They didn’t cross consult a third party to see if it would be worth their time, they just grabbed it and hoped for the best. I confess that I sometimes miss living in the stone age. I took a chance on this one after seeing it for $3 in the discount section at my favorite bookstore: The Mysterious in lower Manhattan. Rarely do I get good cell service in The Mysterious, so I don’t even recall if […]

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4/8/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:38 |

The Nobel committee doesn’t always get it right.

Democracy In Chains by Nancy MacLean

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I am so far behind on CBR reviews! So, I’m gonna try and get back in the game with this book that I finished just after Christmas 2018. I should probably say up front that if you aren’t into US politics, this probably isn’t for you. But, if you’d like a good historical view of the present-day GOP party and how we got here, well, dive into this one. You won’t be sorry. Democracy in Chains by Nancy MacLean is an in-depth examination of the early right-wing Libertarian movement as proposed by James McGill Buchanan, an economist at the University of Virginia. His […]

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4/2/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:1 |

Man of the Moment

Shortest Way Home by Pete Buttigieg

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If you’ve been desperately awaiting November 2020 as much as I have, you’ve probably noticed that Pete Buttigieg is having a moment. The 37-year-old Buttigieg is a Harvard grad, a Rhodes Scholar, and a veteran of the war in Afghanistan, having been called up from Reserve duty while in his first term. He famously speaks seven languages and even performed Gershwin with the South Bend Symphony Orchestra. He is also the first openly-gay man to run for President, having come out shortly after returning from Afghanistan and gotten married a couple of years later. (His husband Chasten, the potential first […]

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3/31/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:7 |

I’m just calling up to tell you something terrible has happened

War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence by Ronan Farrow

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I’m really only familiar with Ronan Farrow in his current incarnation as a reporter, so I was surprised to learn that journalism was actually his second career – before that, he worked in the State Department as part of the Office of the Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan.   The book is a dive into the State Department and America’s unsteady history of diplomacy. While the gutting of State under the Trump administration is of course part of the narrative, we look at how the military has been given increased primacy in America’s foreign relations for decades. The lack […]

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2/24/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:8 |

The Ratf#%^ers

The Seersucker Whipsaw by Ross Thomas

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Ratf#%^&ing has been in the news a lot the last couple of years because of the Trump/Russia scandal. Outside influence affecting democratic elections is a time honored tradition, and few are more familiar with it than the United States, which has been practicing it for decades. It’s practically the CIA’s métier at this point. It’s a violent, imperialistic practice ripe for skewing. Enter Ross Thomas. This is one of his earlier novels and apparently it’s influenced by his real life adventures in the African political trade. He sends his two main characters over to a fictional African nation on the […]

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2/9/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:18 |

It’s Not Just You, The World is Collapsing

The Trouble With Reality: A Rumination on Moral Panic in Our Time by Brooke Gladstone

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I idly picked up this slim book—tract? broadside?—at the local bookstore while waiting for my daughter to browse all the new graphic novels. This quick read is probably more potent now than it was upon its original publication in May 2017. The premise: many Americans living in the age of Trump the primary candidate, Trump the Republican nominee, and Trump the President *rightly* feel unmoored from reality. How could we [liberals] so badly misunderstand our fellow Americans? be surprised that our government can be so quickly dismantled? How do we know what’s actually happening when “truth isn’t truth” and everyone […]

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1/30/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:8 |

“Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?”

Becoming by Michelle Obama

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During the eight years of Barack Obama’s presidency, it became clear to me that Michelle Obama was a statuesque and beautiful woman, who was also clearly intelligent, caring and wanting to make a difference alongside her husband. Being part of the first African American Presidential couple in the White House and basically raising her young daughters more or less in the public eye cannot have been easy. Nevertheless, I didn’t know all that much about Michelle Obama, which was why this autobiography was so interesting to me. The book is divided into three sections – the first covers Michelle’s childhood […]

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1/26/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:2 |


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