Cannonball Read 17

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Doppelganger

Doppelganger by Naomi Klein

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Are y’all watching Severance? Did you watch Dark Matter? Could I recommend Counterpart with J.K. Simmons and Olivia Williams? Have you seen Mr. Klein with Alain Delon? Surely you’ve seen Vertigo? How about Coherence? Look, what I am saying is that I love a doppelganger story. Published in 2023, Doppelganger is not exactly an under-the radar book. Naomi Klein, already a well-known author, has won several well-deserved awards for it. and I think it’s in a lot of people’s periphery, at least. In Doppelganger, Klein […]

How Japanese denim got so good.

Ametora: How Japan Saved American Style by W. David Marx

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I can’t remember how I came across the recommendation for this book, but I’m so glad I did. Although I knew, through a vague cultural osmosis, that Japanese denim is The Best, and that Harajuku is (was?) some sort of Center of Style, and also, as a sewist, that Japanese cottons are really amazing quality, I had no context for any of this. In my mind it was part of this sort of fuzzy cultural impression that Japan is, and always has been, good at […]

Book 2: Villains be villainous.

Royal Assassin by Robin Hobb

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Book 2 of ??? in this year’s Robin Hobb journey! I liked this one. I didn’t like it as much as the first one, but it’s still a solid 4 stars. The Pace of Assassin’s Apprentice  felt like slow and deliberate because we were getting to know Fitz, setting up the other characters, laying groundwork for other pieces of the narrative, getting to know the lay of the land, literally. Royal Assassin felt, weirdly, a little slower to me, in a more frustrating way. Like […]

Well, this one made me cry.

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo

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One of my new year’s resolutions was to be more intentional about reading chapter books to my kids (ages 7 and 9) on a regular basis – with the goal being a book a month, say, or a big book that we have started but never finished (looking at you, The Hobbit) I hope to incorporate my thoughts on how read-aloud-able these books are in my CBR reviews – maybe it will help fellow parents on similar reading journeys! Anyway, we started the year off […]

i would like more books with octopus protagonists

Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

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Tova is a quiet, hardworking woman who still mourning the loss of her 18 year old son and more, recently, her husband. She has taken a job as a night janitor at the Sowell Bay Aquarium in order to keep busy. Marcellus is the resident Giant Pacific Octopus in the aquarium. And Cameron is an unmoored young man whose search for information about his parents leads him to Sowell Bay. What would have been a perfectly nice little story about people finding and making family […]

Historical fiction, time travel, romance, memoir, this book has it all.

The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley

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I finished this last week and couldn’t say immediately if I liked it or not but I have been thinking about it every day since then, and I think that’s really the tell. I picked this up without knowing anything about it, except that it was probably about time travel? Anyway, I was surprised on page 1 when I discovered that this is apparently about time travel and the Franklin expedition?? I’ve read The Terror and watched the miniseries, and generally feel familiar with and […]



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