Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

A Southern Gothic fail

Lookaway, Lookaway by Wilton Barnhardt

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This was a weird book. I mean, a lot of so-called Southern literature is weird – that’s why I love it so – but even by those standards, this was a weird book. Jerene Jarivs Johnston is old money Charlotte. Jerene’s brother is the stereotypical boozy washed up novelist, found most afternoons at the bar at the club sipping his bourbon neat, her sister Dillard is a near shut-in, and her husband Duke is a failed politician, his career having been derailed by Jerene herself when she uncovered Duke’s propensity for bedding younger women. Her children are equally a mess: […]

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7/31/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:7 |

Sweet Sequel to a Sweet Family Debut

First Frost by Sarah Addison Allen

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I first fell for the Waverly Family in Allen’s debut novel, “Garden Spells.” Small town living, sisters, baking, luuurv, and a magical apple tree that throws apples at innocent bystanders. What’s not to love? I knew that the sequel would be a good read for the winter time, something light fluffy, and a little warm for the cold days, and it delivered. The Waverly sisters have both made their way home and are living happy lives. The book picks up about 10 years after the first. The sisters are both happily married, living seemingly idyllic lives, but each is preoccupied: […]

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2/16/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:4 |

Home Is Where the Heart Is…

A Land More Kind Than Home by Wiley Cash

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The library bookstore is my secret addiction. I don’t get to go often (at least, not in my county, what with the powers that be cutting library hours to a ridiculous degree), but when I do go, I load up. And I would say that of the books I pick up, I have about a 50% success rate. I donate the rest back, which results in a vicious circle where I’ve been known to re-buy previous rejects. (Yeah, I know.) Anyway, of that 50% success rate, about half of those are guilty pleasure romance novels that are easily read but […]

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2/9/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:3 |

No one in the South ever asks if you have crazy people in your family. They just ask what side they’re on.

Crazy in Alabama by Mark Childress

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When I was little, my mother had an avocado green Tupperware bowl. She also had a red one and a harvest gold one, and I’m pretty sure there was a blue one, too. They were different sizes, but they all had lids that had a translucent sort of flower pattern on top, so they were obviously part of a set. The bowl itself was also translucent, and more often than not, the green Tupperware bowl sat on the second shelf of our fridge with bunches of green grapes inside. So when Peejoe’s aunt Lucille showed up at his grandmother’s with […]

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8/25/2016 | 's CBR8 Review No:43 |

Mississippi Burning

Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin

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I downloaded Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter on a whim from the library’s website, mainly because I liked the cover, but I’m also a sucker for anything set in the South, and this novel didn’t disappoint. After having finished it, I found a paperback copy at the library bookshop and picked it up for JB, who not only really enjoyed it, but passed it off to his dad, which is just about the highest praise a book can receive. Twenty-five years ago, Silas (“32”) Jones and Larry Ott were the best of friends, despite one being the black son of a […]

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7/25/2016 | 's CBR8 Review No:26 |

The Sins of the Father…

Father and Son by Larry Brown

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Set in rural 1960s Mississippi, Father and Son spans a week in a small town after one of their own, Glen Davis, returns from three years in the state penitentiary for running over and killing a young boy while driving drunk. Glen is angry, furious, and the reader senses immediately that this is not a man who has learned his lesson. He’s hard-edged, cold and disconnected, and there is no redeeming quality in him. Glen returns to an elderly father intent on drinking himself to death, a former lover, Jewel, for whom he has very little feelings, a bastard four […]

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5/11/2015 | 's CBR7 Review No:19 |

Peaches are really just hairy nectarines…

The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen

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I downloaded this from the local library the other day so I would have something to listen to while I walked in the evenings. (Even though it feels like it’s 90 degrees already and it’s only April. What am I going to do when it’s August???) Anyway, I needed something sort of fluffy and chick lit-esque that I could sort of half listen to while I huffed and puffed my way through the soup that is known as Florida air and I thought this would fit the bill. The Peach Keeper tells the interwoven story of two thirty-something women living […]

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4/13/2015 | 's CBR7 Review No:12 |

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