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The Ultimate Pi Day Party by Jackie Lau

March 22, 2020 by faintingviolet 4 Comments

Apparently incoming global pandemics make concentrating on reading tough for your friendly book club maven. Other than Station Eleven I didn’t finish another book for three weeks. But now that we’re in the “ordered to stay home by my governor” phase I’ve apparently settled in and am ready to return to a semi-normal schedule. So, as the anxiety fog cleared, I remembered that I had intended to read and review The Ultimate Pi Day Party by Jackie Lau for Pi Day on the 14th. I […]

Book Club Discussion Post: Station Eleven Revisited

March 20, 2020 by faintingviolet 76 Comments

Welcome to our first #CannonBookClub of 2020 – a return trip to Station Eleven. When MsWas and I discussed revisiting our first book club book six months ago we couldn’t have known what the state of the world would be when we got to March. COVID-19 is very different than the Georgian Flu, but it certainly gave us a new lens through which to view Emily St. John Mandel’s book. On to the boilerplate: ground rules remain the same as they always have. For those […]

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Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

March 19, 2020 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

This is my third reading of Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven. It is one of my favorite books of the past few years, a book that I find to be nearly perfect. This reread was for Book Club. It is also an extremely prescient time to be reading a book about a global pandemic, but I’m glad that Covid-19 isn’t nearly as devastating as the Georgian Flu. What I was struck with this time through was how Mandel structured the pass-offs between characters. On […]

Discussion Topics Preview: Station Eleven

March 10, 2020 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

The Station Eleven discussion post is still live, and you can still comment on that discussion. My lovely fellow Cannonballers, are you ready to make a return trip to Station Eleven? Let this post serve as your official reminder – we are 10 days away from book club on Friday March 20 and Saturday March 21. Really interesting reviews of Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven are already up, and I’m about midway through my current reread. I’m getting excited for what’s ahead. If you were here […]

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Ten Days a Madwoman: The Daring Life and Turbulent Times of the Original “Girl” Reporter, Nellie Bly by Deborah Noyes

February 29, 2020 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

We’ve reached the first book of the year that I read expressly because it fit a Read Harder Challenge. Task number one is to read a YA non-fiction. I did not have any juvenile non-fiction on my 650 books deep to read list, so I had to go looking. Nellie Bly had recently come up at work and I realized I knew very little about the famous reporter beyond her time in Blackwell or her around the world trip so onto my library request […]

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Hearts on Hold by Charish Reid

February 29, 2020 by faintingviolet 2 Comments

In my many years of reading and reviewing I have paid little to no attention to Publishers. I pre-ordered Charish Reid’s newest book Hearts on Hold based on emmalita’s review of the ARC. I knew nothing else about the book, its author, or the publishing house. When I opened my nook and found that this was a Carina Press book, home of Cannonball favorite Lucy Parker, I was downright delighted. Hearts on Hold is the story of Dr. Victoria Reese, English professor at Pembroke University […]

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