Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

This is just an entirely brilliant novel

Warlock by Oakley Hall

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This is not a fantasy novel. The title purports to refer to a local silver mine near the town of Warlock (in the Arizona territory) in the 1880s. This is an overtly fictionalized version of the Gunfight at the OK Corral/Wyatt Earp story told through a series of different narrative views, with as much fictionalization as needed for that story, and as much collapsing and challenging the notions of narrative and mythmaking along the way. If we’re being technical it’s not even about Wyatt Earp; it’s Clay Blaisedell. The Citizen’s Council of Warlock has hired Clay Blaisedell, famed gunman and […]

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8/17/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:338 |

Well, this is definitely a 1970s fantasy novel.

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K Le Guin

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This is a strange book to me because on the one hand I know that, while it’s not entirely a new foray into a newish genre, it’s something of an early effort for Ursula K Le Guin, but it’s not a profound extension of the genre, and in fact, it’s even a solidly good novel. It’s good, and it’s fine. But it’s also an oddly out of balance book. It’s short. It feels short when you look at it and hold it, but it also feels and is written like it wants to be long. Here’s what I mean. On […]

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8/17/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:337 |

Great Harley and Ivy Stories, Non-Bus Friendly Art

Harley and Ivy: The Deluxe Edition by Paul Dini, Bruce Timm

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Harley and Ivy is a followup to Dini and Timm’s Mad Love, a Harley Quinn-centric collection I gave a hearty five stars to only a month ago. While Mad Love was about Harley and Joker, this book follows the hijinks of two of Batman’s more famous villains.  The main story in this collection is a fun around-the-world adventure in which Harley and Ivy cause trouble in Gotham, traipse through an exotic rain forest, and make their debuts in Hollywood. The varied settings provide opportunities for a brighter and more exotic look and color palette than Bat-readers often see. Character-wise, Dini and […]

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8/17/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:31 |

Saying Goodbye to an Old Friend

A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Nonfiction by Terry Pratchett

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I didn’t think this book would be so emotionally difficult to get through. As readers of someone else’s fiction, it’s difficult to remember that there’s a real, down-to-earth, eats-and-breathes human behind the characters and fake world we so fall in love with. Terry Pratchett is himself, and even though Discworld was born from his head like Athena from Zeus, he’s not Discworld or any of the characters in it. In fact, to read his nonfiction is to sit in a very earthly room beside him having a very earthly conversation over a hot cup of milky tea and you feel […]

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8/17/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:18 |

A 5 star book with a major caveat.

Every Last One by Anna Quindlen

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Every Last One is about a mother with three teenage children. They all have very realistic teenage concerns and dramas. There’s depression in the mix, an eating disorder, relationship problems, very well-written dynamics between the kids and their friends and significant others and how they all interplay. Mary Beth’s marriage isn’t really the point but there’s also some very subtle but very real commentary on being married for a long time. The parents are each doing their best to figure out how to effectively parent three teenagers – when to push, when to give them space. Mistakes are made but […]

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8/16/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:19 |

The Children of Nothing and Night

Thorn Jack by Katherine Harbour

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Combining the sorcery of The Night Circus with the malefic suspense of A Secret History, Thorn Jack is a spectacular, modern retelling of the ancient Scottish ballad, Tam Lin—a beguiling fusion of love, fantasy, and myth that echoes the imaginative artistry of the works of Neil Gaiman, Cassandra Clare, and Melissa Marr. I wasn’t sure what to expect from this book, but I was intrigued enough when I saw the cover and read the blurb to pick it up at the library along with the next book in the series.  I’ve read my share of books about vampires, angels and […]

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8/16/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:68 |

Player One is Ready!

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

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I absolutely loved this book.  I know an audiobook is good when it makes me sit in my car outside my garage (so I don’t die from asphyxiation) and continue listening after I get home.  This book is read by Wil Wheaton, who just has a great voice with fun inflections, and tone changes, and all that is good in the world. This book was 15 hours long, so there’s a lot to cover.  I really don’t want to give anything away, so I’m going to do do a bare bones plot overview.  I had so much fun seeing what […]

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8/16/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:38 |

There’s a Lot Going on Here.

The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman

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I think if I tried to fully explain the plot of The Invisible Library, we’d be here all day. This book has a LOT going on. Let me see if I can just skim the surface. Irene is a Librarian at a special Library that exists outside of space and time. Her job is to visit different worlds and collect books for the Library. Original printings, special books that only exist in one universe instead of in all of them, stuff like that. She’s sent out on a mission with a trainee, Kai, to retrieve a special version of Grimm’s […]

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8/15/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:36 |

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