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Behind the Fictional Music

Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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CBR11Bingo – Cannonballer Says The genius of this novel lies in the presentation. We’ve all become familiar with the oral history as a narrative form in recent years, whether in magazine pieces or in longer forms like the SNL history “Live From New York.” To a fiction writer it offers a comparatively easy way to utilize multiple narrators, unreliable narrators, differing perspectives and faulty memories. It also allows Reid to quickly characterize each of the seven members of the titular band and the other major characters. The Six feature two sets of brothers: talented singer-songwriter and leader Billy Dunne and […]

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8/18/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:27 |

“Can I handle the seasons of my life?” Fleetwood Mac LANDSLIDE

Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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#cbr11bingo #Pajiba (and should finish my Bingo board) While predictable in many ways, Daisy Jones & the Six has a lot to like. Some parts of Taylor Jenkins Reid novel are strong and fast pace. Other parts move a lot more slowly; making it difficult to want to go on.  And while I never really liked anyone (even the more “likeable” people) they are all well done. These are people you know. You have been these people. Or you are these people. Okay, we are not all living the Rock-n-Roll lifestyle (at least I’m not) but we all have had […]

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8/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:303 |

Waiting For the TV Show…

Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid Finished on May 2, took 9 days to read 3 stars on Goodreads Genre: Fiction Rating 2/3 Fiction There were so many reasons why I was excited to read Daisy Jones & the Six. Several of my favorite blogs, podcasts, and friends recommended this book. I loved the author’s earlier novel: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. And most notably, earlier this year Daisy Jones got the ultimate bump when it was featured by Reese Witherspoon’s book club, and now the book is being made into a TV show on Amazon […]

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8/7/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:18 |

Sadly, the album is NOT on iTunes.

Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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CBR11 Bingo – Canonballer Says   This book has been popping up on ‘must read’ lists, and in bookstore displays all year, but in reading the description, I wasn’t sure it would be my jam. But then it was on the new releases shelf at the library, and there had been a couple recent 5star reviews here (Jen K, Manimama, and ardaigle), so I tossed it in my pile on a whim. The book is laid out like a VH1 Behind the Music interview, with snippets of comments from various band members, producers, friends, etc, all flowing together. At first […]

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7/30/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:35 |

Think Someone Could Record the Songs from this Novel?

Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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Bingo Square: Pajiba The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo was one of my favorite reads this year (review forthcoming, eventually, hopefully), so I was excited to realize Reid had a new novel out.  When I started actually going through the Bingo board and looking through the Pajiba archive, I was even more excited to realize that I could read it for that square – I was actually trying to find Dustin’s article on Baby Teeth because I thought I might finally use this as the push to finish that novel, though I wasn’t looking forward to reading more of that […]

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7/29/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:8 |

Waiting for the companion album

Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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CBR11 Bingo Pajiba square. I had read glowing write-ups of this book seemingly everywhere. An oral history of a fictional band did not seem at all interesting to me- I tend to ignore oral histories even of bands/movies/shows I have loved- but the rave reviews had my interest piqued. I’m so glad I got over myself.   As I said, the book is written as an oral history provided by the members of the band, “the Six” as well as singer Daisy Jones, their management, family members, and journalists that covered them at the time. It is told chronologically from […]

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7/13/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:37 |

CBR11Bingo: Pajiba

Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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​Dustin Rowles mentioned this book on Pajiba (Pajiba!), and that he loved it so much that he immediately sought out Taylor Jenkins Reid’s The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. I came to it from the opposite direction — I have loved everything else I’ve ever read by Taylor Jenkins Reid and jumped on the waiting list for this one pretty much the moment I heard about it. I was not disappointed. I am a huge fan of oral histories complied into a narrative. I used to read the ones on Vanity Fair all the time and I’ve read some non-fiction […]

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7/9/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:80 |

The Chosen ones never know that they are chosen.

Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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Another of Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine Book Club picks strikes again. This is definitely a page turner and a great summer read. Might I also recommend having some good 60’s rock ‘n roll playing in the background as well? Sit under the umbrella or with an umbrella in your cocktail and enjoy. The basic plot here is pretty straight forward. A band from Pittsburgh called The Six and a singer songwriter named Daisy Jones come together to record a duet and the rest is history. A meteoric rise into stardom, the predictable quibbling of band members that feel upstaged by […]

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6/28/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:15 |


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