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Revisiting the Early Novels of a Long Running Series

An Artificial Night by Seanan McGuire

Late Eclipses by Seanan McGuire

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While the October Daye series didn’t start clicking for me until the third book, it has since become one of my favorite urban fantasy series.  I love the expansive world building and even thirteen books in, the series keeps growing without conflicting with itself.  I don’t know if McGuire always had this extended world in her head but didn’t know how much time she would have to explore it or if she is going novel to novel on the fly, but it has been such a delight.  She also has created an amazing expanded cast of supporting characters but knows […]

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9/4/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:54 |

CBRBingo – Summer Read. More Poehler, please.

Yes Please by Amy Poehler

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CBRBingo – Summer Read Reread July 2019 (third review). As I again turn to Amy Poehler in the summer (last time, was summer 2016) I would definitely call this the quintessential summer read. Great on the beach, fun and funny, Poehler is a rollicking good time. Aside from George Orwell’s 1984 and my annual Christopher Reading of “The Stupidest Angel” this is the only other book I have reread since I was a kid. It is equal parts memoir and self-help and Poehler is a gifted comedienne and writer (obviously). She is vulnerable, fun, funny, and I know I’m going […]

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8/13/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:31 |

#swordbae may be hot, but he’s not great at resolving conflict

A Duke by Default by Alyssa Cole

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I really enjoyed A Princess in Theory by Alyssa Cole when I read it last year, and promptly read A Duke by Default. Rereading it over New Year crystallised a few things for me, so this is a spoiler-riffic review, with some mild criticism. Background – the story is about Portia, who applies to apprentice in Scotland to make swords, and promptly falls for Tavish, the sword craftsman. While updating the business’ website, she researches more about the area and the ancient building it is based in, and finds out that Tavish is a secret duke. Shenanigans ensue.   SPOILERS […]

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

Strike Re-read Completed, Bring on Book Four

Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith (J. K. Rowling pseudonym), Robert Glenister (narrator)

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Because my brain doesn’t seem to hold onto the details of mystery books the story is often new to me again. This time I didn’t have that experience though, I had already binged the BBC adaptation of the books, but I still thoroughly enjoyed my time with the characters. Once again Career of Evil is Rowling writing an intricate, but not unsolvable, mystery where the clues are right there in front of you, and even if you don’t catch the signs along the way, the resolution make sense after the big reveal.  This story dials down its setting and pace […]

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12/4/2018 's CBR10 Review No:59 |

“There are certain qualities of light that blur the years.” (CBR10Bingo Blackout!)

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

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I apologize now, this review will not really be a review. It is more a love letter to our community here at Cannonball Read. Of the ten books we had to choose from for So Popular, I had read most, but not all. The ones I haven’t read I don’t care to (looking at you, Divergent) so I was thinking about re-reading Eleanor & Park to go with last year’s re-read of Attachments or maybe The Martian to see if I still had a book crush on Mark Watney. I wrote up my #cbr10bingo list with a couple options and […]

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11/30/2018 's CBR10 Review No:58 |

#CBR10Bingo: So Popular! – Revisiting a favourite (Bingo #9 and #10)

Attachments by Rainbow Rowell

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#CBR10Bingo: So Popular! This is my second re-read of Attachments. I first read it back in 2011, and my original review can be found here. Considering how much I loved the book back then (and still do), it’s a fairly short and unenthusiastic review. But it’ll give you the basics of what the book is about. When it came to selecting a book for the “So popular!” square, all ten choices (among the most reviewed books of the ten years on the Cannonball blog) were ones I’d already read at least once. Some, like Divergent, The Girl on the Train and Gone Girl, I really just didn’t feel […]

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11/28/2018 's CBR10 Review No:103 |

Blackout! One case where I prefer the literary criticism to the actual novel

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

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Bingo Square: This Old Thing I read Jane Eyre in high school for fun when I was trying to read classics because I thought I needed to better myself.  I can’t say that was a very successful venture, since I didn’t end up liking that many of them without a teacher’s guidance to point out some of the deeper meaning (although I loved East of Eden and Anna Karenina).  Jane Eyre was definitely one I didn’t enjoy that much because it was long and boring. And yet, some of the best literary criticism I have read is about Jane Eyre, […]

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10/3/2018 's CBR10 Review No:172 |

Revisiting an Old Favorite

Attachments by Rainbow Rowell

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Bingo Square: So Popular While I had only read seven of the ten books from the “So Popular” list, I chose a reread. I knew Divergent as a series had not lived up to the first novel; while I enjoyed Gillian Flynn, I am kind of over that genre (is it still a twist if we expect it?) which meant no Girl on a Train; and even though I know everyone loves The Fault in our Stars, I just have little interest in reading a novel about teens dying of cancer.  My Sister’s Keeper was enough in that category. Given […]

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10/3/2018 's CBR10 Review No:170 |


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