Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

A tale of plotters for pantsers.

The Writer's Journey by Christopher Vogler

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In writing there’s two types: the plotters and the pantsers. The plotters decide and document the entire plot before writing. The pantsers start writing and hope that a plot sorta happens along the way. Spoiler alert: Plots don’t usually happen that way. Also spoiler: I’m a totalt pantser. So in an effort to learn how to be a plotter I’ve been picking up some books. This is the first one I’ve finished. The writer’s journey is based on the idea that all stories are basically the same. They have certain elements and structures that are universal and the book tries […]

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7/28/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:19 |

The Granite Mouse

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

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I don’t know how to properly express my love for this novel. Any review I give will pale in comparison to Irving’s opus and the only thing I can really say is that: if you haven’t read A Prayer for Owen Meany- you should and if you have read A Prayer for Owen Meany- then you should re-read it. I was first introduced to John Wheelwright and Owen Meany by my high school English teacher and I don’t think I properly appreciated it at the time. Who appreciates anything when they’re sixteen? I’ve read it at least one more time since graduating so I […]

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7/27/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:79 |

I wish it had ended about 4 pages sooner

The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena

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Everyone in this novel is an unlikable idiot. So the premise is that Marco and Anne decide to leave their 6 month old baby alone at their house while they attend a dinner party at their neighbor’s house. They take their baby monitor with them and check on Cora, the infant, every thirty minutes. “Who goes to a dinner party next door and leaves her baby alone in the house? What kind of mother does such a thing? She feels the familiar agony set in – she is not a good mother. So what if the sitter canceled? They should […]

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7/27/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:78 |

When PattyKates Says Read the Book…

When Life Happened by Jewel E. Ann

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This is the story of a book. This was a book which I would never have found on my own, but our dynamic reviewing duo PattyKates located it in their literary travels and recommended, nay demanded, that we citizens of Romancelandia experience. But alas, it was not available to me via library or Nook and I thought I would perhaps be left out of the reading and the discussion. But, our very own Prolixity Julien procured the book for me via Kindle and once more I was back in the game. Read over the course of thirty hours while I […]

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7/27/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:41 |

Well I guess I read the Reckoners series

Steelheart, Mitosis, Firefight, Calamity by Brandon Sanderson

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So this has almost all the marks of a Brandon Sanderson series. The action is very well-written, the characters are overly goofy, the dialogue is overly goofy, but he doesn’t use the word “maladroitly” so who knows, maybe it was ghostwritten. I enjoyed it over all. Don’t my ribbings of Sanderson to heart. I like his books, but they’re so silly in their own ways. Steelheart The premise of the series is that a cataclysmic event happened on Earth about a decade or so from the beginning of the book. The result of this event seems to be that some […]

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7/27/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:310 |

A dream wrapped in razor wire or razor wire wrapped in a dream

Places No One Knows by Brenna Yovanoff

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4.5 stars To everyone who knows her, Waverly Camdenmar appears to be pretty much perfect. She is intelligent, successful, one of the most popular girls in school (thanks to her Machiavellian scheming on behalf of her best friend, whom she’s pretty sure she doesn’t even like anymore). Said best friend keeps referring to her as a robot or android, but thanks to her, Waverly fits in. No one knows that nearly every night, Waverly battles insomnia and runs until her feet bleed. She also fears she may be a sociopath. Marshall Holt is one of the school’s notorious stoners. His […]

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7/27/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:68 |

Hi. I’m Badkittyuno, and I’ve fallen behind again…

Sex in the Museum: My Unlikely Career at New York's Most Provocative Museum + 25 others (don't hate me) by Sarah Forbes + 25 others (don't hate me)

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Hi. Sorry. I really thought I was like 10 reviews behind and it turned out to actually be 19. So then I started up this list of reviews…and didn’t post it…and now I’m 26 behind. I would blame my kids/divorce/life, but really — I’d much rather read than write! Also, I’ve been working from home a lot and doing laundry instead of writing reviews (which is what I do when I get bored at the office), so that’s not helping. Anyway, here’s 26 brief reviews and please don’t hate me! Sex in the Museum: My Unlikely Career at New York’s […]

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7/27/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:158 |

We Travel to Find Home

Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It by Geoff Dyer

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My encounter with this book is a happy accident. As I was browsing through Half-Price Books, I scanned through the yoga/stretching section and laughed out loud at the title of this one – Yoga for People Who Can’t Be Bothered to Do It. That sounded like my kind of fitness book, so I bought it and brought it home.  Weeks later, I finally got around to opening it up. A few pages in, I realized that both Half-Price Books and I had misjudged the subject matter. Dyer’s book isn’t about yoga – it is a travelogue. Dyer details a period in […]

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7/27/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:25 |

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