For CBR12 we’re planning three book clubs that we hope will inspire you to pick up a new to you book or reread something and consider it again. On March 20th and 21st we’ll celebrate five years of #CannonBookClub and revisit our first book – Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel. We have lots of new faces, as well as plenty of us who have been around since Cannonball Read 7 so it seemed the perfect time to revisit one of my favorite books […]
The Country of Money
The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
The lovely crystalclear was sharing her spoils from bookcon, and the pre-sale copy of Emily St. John Mandel’s newest novel was in her pile. I nabbed it, excited for Mandel after loving Station 11, and also looking forward to a literary shift after my Rowell YA obsession. In Mandel’s usual style of telling stories from multiple viewpoints in moving times and places, The Glass Hotel spans New York City and rural Canada, the early 2000s to the Great Recession, and through the present day, with our […]