The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

I was today years old when I discovered this book and I are pretty much the same age

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

July 29, 2021 by Malin 1 Comment

3.5 stars CBR13 Bingo: Machinery (space ships, the guide, Marvin – a lot of examples) Arthur Dent wakes up one morning to discover his house is about to be bulldozed. He’s very upset about it and goes to lie down in front of one of the bulldozers, so it can’t knock down his house, but is interrupted by his friend Ford Prefect, who has some very important things to tell him, and very little time left to do so. It turns out Ford Prefect is […]

The One Where I Review All the Young at Heart Book Club Picks, Finally.

Ghost Squad by Claribel Ortega

Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

May 27, 2021 by faintingviolet 1 Comment

I read these books all together for our Young at Heart book club so it only feels right to review them all together. Our goal for book club was to find book selections that reminded us of childhood in order to (hopefully) inspire a bit of lighthearted nostalgia. For the most part, these books succeeded on that metric for me. Ghost Squad – 4 stars Up first is Claribel Ortega’s Ghost Squad. I often have trouble sinking into Middle Grades books – it is where […]

Book Club Discussion Post: Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

May 21, 2021 by faintingviolet 17 Comments

Welcome to our Young at Heart book club! This go round we’ve selected three books that reminded us of childhood in order to hopefully have a bit of lighthearted nostalgia. Each of our three books – Judy Blume’s Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and Claribel Ortega’s Ghost Squad – have their own Discussion Posts and don’t forget, we’ll be having our first ever Zoom* Book Club on Saturday May 22 at 7 pm EDT. (*Sign up […]

Young at Heart Discussion Topics

May 20, 2021 by faintingviolet 1 Comment

Young at Heart Book Club has arrived!! We hope you’re as excited as we are to talk about some fun, nostalgic reads. Our individual book discussion posts are now live: Judy Blume’s Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Claribel Ortega’s Ghost Squad We’ll meet up to chat on Zoom on tomorrow evening, Sat. May 22, 2021 7 pm EDT, . (Sign up for the CBR newsletter “Cannon Fodder” to get Zoom details.) We will also be talking on our Social […]

Reminder! The Young at Heart #CannonBookClub is Coming Soon!

May 11, 2021 by faintingviolet 1 Comment

Hello my lovely fellow Cannonballers! We are 10 days away from our first #CannonBookClub of 2021 – Young at Heart. Our books this time are Judy Blume’s Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and Claribel Ortega’s Ghost Squad. Choose one or more and join us to chat about these (hopefully) nostalgic stories. We’ll have three discussion posts – one for each book – here on the site starting May 21 as well as Discussion posts on Social Media. Then on […]

A Classic Meh on the Reread

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

March 28, 2021 by CoffeeShopReader 2 Comments

I’m pretty sure the first time I read Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, I was probably in my teens and reading it on my father’s recommendation. Dad seemed to want to introduce his kids to at least basic classic sci-fi, although I still don’t get his appreciation for William Gibson. So I figured since there’s a book club coming up where this is an option, it might be time for a re-read. My basic impression is that I can see why this is the classic […]

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