Cannonball Read 10

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When Uncle Stevie tells us that a book is scary, we should most definitely listen. #CBR10Bingo

The Hunger by Alma Katsu

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I’ve been away on vacation (or a series of vacations) for a little over a month, and have a large stack of books to review. But this one had to be first. The quiet horror of it will last with me for a long time. I first heard about The Hunger from Stephen King, who tweeted about it in March: THE HUNGER, by Alma Katsu: Deeply, deeply disturbing, hard to put down, not recommended reading after dark. Of course, that shot it up to the top of my TBR list. I bought it immediately. But didn’t sit down to read […]

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8/19/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:31 |

Who Else Would Be Canny Enough to Try and Do Their World-Building Backwards?

Revenant Gun (Machineries of Empire III) by Yoon Ha Lee

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  Once again, I am going to try (perhaps unwisely) to review a book without reviewing its predecessors in the series! So be warned, I haven’t been able to do this without touching on some spoilers for earlier books. I guess this is what you get by making ´This Is The End’ a bingo square.   As far as authors go, Yoon Ha Lee can be a bit of a cruel master. The way he treats his readers throughout the earlier books in his Machineries of Empire series reminds me of one those bare-bones swimming instructors. You know, one of […]

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8/19/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:24 |

The Locals Pronounce it “Mayum-fiss”

Memphis Noir by (Various)

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Read as part of CBR 10 Bingo: Brain Candy I love the Akashic Noir series, having read or browsed through the Baltimore, Detroit, New Orleans and Bronx ones. They provide two things I enjoy: a murder mystery and a tourism read. My dad is a native Memphian and despite the city’s many flaws, I’m partial to it. So it was a no-brainer to pick this one up. As with the rest of the series, some of these are better than others. I was partial to Through Valleys (which had an ending I didn’t expect), Never Never (the first graphic cartoon I recall reading in […]

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8/18/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:9 |

I know why, but why?

No Way Down by Graham Bowley

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I saw this book on Instagram, maybe through the CBR account, and was suddenly desperate to get it. I am not a mountain climber nor am I a follower of mountain climbing exploits, I don’t read an enormous amount of non-fiction, and when I do, it’s not generally DISASTER non-fiction. And yet, I saw this and immediately put in a reserve request at the library. I suspect the last mountain climbing book I read was Jim Curran’s K2: Triumph and Tragedy., which examined the 1986 disaster on K2 during which 13 people died in the worst climbing disaster on K2 […]

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8/18/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:15 |

Maybe read this during the day…

Come Closer by Sara Gran

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This is a sinister story that you can read in just a few hours. It’s about Amanda, who is happily married with a great job as an architect. As strange things begin happening to her, she can’t quite figure out if it’s her, or something else. Like the tapping she constantly hears at home (it’s the pipes), or the strange incident at work (must have been a practical joke). But as things get more sinister, Amanda finds herself consulting a book on demon possession she’s sure was sent to her by mistake. And each time she consults the checklist of […]

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8/18/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:7 |

“The Power of Words […] They Hooked into Invididuals and Wormed Through Generations.”

The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin

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I am but one of a number of Cannonballers who have read The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin so far this year! And for the most part I enjoyed it, as I know some others did. Though I think the front half really got me more so than the latter half, which is not to say that things don’t all come together and create a beautiful story, but I think it really boils down to feeling more of a connection with some of the characters whose points of view are focused on earlier on. The Immortalists tells the story of four […]

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8/17/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:42 |

We have to keep talking

Stalling for Time: My Life as an FBI Hostage Negotiator by Gary Noesner

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Bingo Square: The Book Was Better? I recently watched the TV series Waco, starring Taylor Kitsch as David Koresh and Michael Shannon as Gary Noesner, the FBI negotiator at the 1993 siege. It was an excellent series which made me realise how little I knew about the event, and how bad it was. The show was based on Noesner’s book, Stalling for Time, and also an account by a survivor, David Thibodeaux’s Waco: A Survivor’s Story. I’d been hoping to read and review both for this, to give both sides, but alas my library didn’t have Thibodeaux’s available. Noesner’s book […]

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8/17/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:29 |

Like reading the show

M*A*S*H: A Novel About Three Doctors by Richard Hooker

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Despite being born after the finale aired, I grew up on M*A*S*H. My parents bought each season on DVD as it was released and I’ve watched each episode at least three times. Maybe it doesn’t hold up quite so well watching it again as an adult (remember that episode where the guys in the Swamp convince a senior officer Hotlips is into him and he sexually assaults her … for laughs? Yeah.) But reading this book brought me right back to it all. The show (and movie! Oh man, first R-rated film I saw, thanks Dad!) is so rich, and so […]

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8/17/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:95 |


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