Cannonball Read 11

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“I learn that I am a tiny piece of a miraculous world.”

We Are Okay by Nina LaCour

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I struggled with this book for quite a while. For reasons I now don’t remember I believed this book to be a graphic novel and had filed it as such as a different task for Read Harder challenge than I eventually recorded it under. Then, once I began reading it for what it truly was, I found myself struggling through the chapters. Marin the protagonist is in such a low place, and Nina LaCour writes it so well that I felt myself being pulled under as I was already feeling a bit out of sorts. There were a few times […]

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3/28/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:15 |

“All the things that make you different make you perfect.”

The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang

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The Kiss Quotient has been hanging out in my TBR since Malin’s review last July and I was excited to read it this year fulfilling tasks for both Read Harder Challenge and the Reading Women Challenge. I’m glad I read it in the early part of the year and didn’t put it off any longer, it was a quick fun read and while it wasn’t perfectly executed it was certainly better than average and quite good indeed for a debut. I have a soft spot for books where the author has workshopped them and thanks their writers group in the […]

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3/26/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:14 |

Small but Mighty

The LIttle Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge by HIldegarde H. Swift, Lynd Ward (illustrator)

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Until a few years ago I didn’t know that this book from 1942 existed, and once I did, I still didn’t quite grasp where it was set, which little red lighthouse and great gray bridge it was talking about. How silly I felt when I was flipping through this one after a long day to discover that it is set along the Hudson River and the great gray bridge is the George Washington bridge which I drive over several times a year. In some ways this is just another children’s book about knowing your place, and that being little doesn’t […]

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2/3/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:6 |

Read Harder Challenge 2018 Complete! Final Cannonball 10 Review!

The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

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Sneaking in with a bit to spare, on a borrowed computer, and one book behind last year’s pace I’m finally posting my last review of Cannonball Read 10. This was the Read Harder 2018 task I was looking least forward to, and I managed to push it off until the last possible moment, but at least I am completing the challenge this year. Task 24 was to “read an assigned book you hated (or never finished)”. In reality I have very few books that I never completed, and the ones that I hated I don’t really feel emotionally prepared to […]

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12/30/2018 's CBR10 Review No:64 |

There are few things sadder for a reader than a book which lets them down.

Calling Me Home by Julie Kibler

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I am so disappointed in this book – I  had high hopes for it but in the end I felt empty. I really wanted to like this one, but the writing bothered me too much. The story is fine, not great but fine. There were a lot of stereotypical plot contrivances along the way. There were several times I rolled my eyes; popular media needs to stop perpetuating lazy stereotypes. So, what is the story about? After hearing  a story how her grandmother fell in love with a young black man when she was a teenager author Julie Kibler took […]

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12/16/2018 's CBR10 Review No:62 |

Girl, Ghost Best Friend, and Cranky Cat Head to Edinburgh

City of Ghosts by Victoria Schwab

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I read a bit of YA, but middle grades is not something I usually think to pick up, or even necessarily think of as a distinct genre. But as is often the case in my reading diet of the past few years the Read Harder Challenge had a task that needed sorting. Enter Leedock and her review of City of Ghosts – the perfect book to fulfill the “read the first book in a new-to-you YA or middle grade series”. Now is when I admit to having never read a Victoria (or V.E. as she is sometimes known) Schwab book […]

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12/13/2018 's CBR10 Review No:61 |

“I am not an angel,’ I asserted; ‘and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.” (BINGO 5!)

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (author), Thandie Newton (narrator)

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For many, Jane Eyre is part of the reading undertaken during their education. For some it is read in high school, for others college, but for me it never joined the reading lists of my various courses. In fact, until several years ago when I read Agnes Grey I had read nothing at all by any of the Brontes. It is however fully in the milieu of a reader’s culture; I understood it enough to get the jokes in Texts from Jane Eyre and Hark! A Vagrant. I have seen cinematic versions of the story (quite enjoying the Mia Wasikowska […]

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11/5/2018 's CBR10 Review No:53 |

“Into many lives a little irregularity must fall.” (CANNONBALL!! Bingo #3 & 4)

A Study in Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas

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I had read quite a few reviews of this book, and still I don’t think I fully grasped what to expect. Back in January both yesknopemaybe and sistercoyote’s reviews of this book got me to add it to both my to read list, and found it a home on my Read Harder Challenge. My exact words were “Okay, that’s it, you all win. On the to read list it goes. I’m not even that big a Sherlock Holmes fan (hush, I know, I know.)” At the end of my reading experience I’m left feeling a little unfulfilled, I don’t know […]

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10/21/2018 's CBR10 Review No:52 |


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