Welcome to our Fairy tale Adaptations book club! This go round we’ve selected four books that showed their author’s take on various fairy tales and folktales. Each of our books below have their own Discussion Posts and don’t forget, we’ll be having our Zoom Book Club on Saturday September 18 at 7 pm EDT. Other Discussions The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden Deerskin by Robin McKinley Sea Witch by Sarah Henning Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson For those of you returning […]
“I did not know that there are miles between running out of things to say, and running out of the strength to say them.”
Somebody's Daughter by Ashley C. Ford
When we had out August CBR Zoom Check-in I talked about this book and praised it while warning others away. It is still my prevailing view – Somebody’s Daughter is an absolutely fantastic piece of writing where Ashley C. Ford immerses the reader in her childhood, and it is not for the faint of heart or those who may not be in the most stable mental health space. You might know Ashley C. Ford from her podcasts or writings for outlets such as BuzzFeed, The […]
Reminder – Fairy Tales and Adaptations #CannonBookClub is Coming Soon!
We are just one week away from our next meeting of our Cannonball Book Club! It will begin on Friday September 17th when we’ll have Discussion Posts here for each of our selections, The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden, Deerskin by Robin McKinley, Sea Witch by Sarah Henning, and Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson. We will also be talking on our Social Media platforms, and of course in our Facebook group, Cannonball Read Book Chat, we’ll have some additional prompts […]
Another story I didn’t know existed, a perfect author for the Gateway square
A Good Heretic (Wayfarers #0.5) by Becky Chambers
There are a handful of authors that I am simply delighted Cannonball Read has put on my reading radar. Becky Chambers is absolutely one of those. Her The Wayfarers series helped to cement for me my enjoyment of space based science fiction, while simultaneously reaffirming that one doesn’t need to rely on the hero’s journey in order to write excellent genre fiction. My favorite genre books are all character driven, and that is just the kind of exploration and survival stories at which Chambers excels. […]
A Self-Care Treat for Me
The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay & Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's novel to film by Emma Thompson
The 1995 movie adaptation of Sense and Sensibility is maybe my favorite movie adaptation ever and is certainly in my top five movies of all time. I will watch it when I’m happy, when I’m sad, when I’m wistful, when I’m tired. It makes my heart happy and is one of my go to tools in the self-care toolbox. While I have read many Austen related books in my time with Cannonball I had never poked around into books about the movie adaptations. Then in […]
I really want to go to the Dark Forest at Sugar Fair – why does it have to be fictional?
Battle Royal by Lucy Parker
I absolutely adored Lucy Parker’s London Celebrities series and was excited to get my hands on the first book in her next series, Battle Royal. How could I not be excited for a book where the introduction to our protagonists involves a confectionary unicorn hoof hitting one of them on the forehead mid-judging of a televised baking competition? After that first meeting four years ago Sylvie Fairchild has gone on to open her own bakery, Sugar Fair, across the street from Dominic De Vere’s eponymous […]
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