Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

Flowery Language Won’t Distract Me From My Concerns

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

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Alright, this is a conflicting one. I decided to read this book as I saw it listed on a few of those “100 books to read before you die” or “how many of these essential books have you read: most people have only read 8” lists you sometimes see floating about, and now I wonder… why? Why is it on those lists? Is it really considered a classic? Has it really help up over time? Is there not more scrutiny of it now and given all the developments after it’s release? Which, I really didn’t know about at the time, […]

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6/24/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:13 |

Turds also go into the water

Into the Water by Paula Hawkins

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This book is pretty bad, ya’ll. Like not very good at all. It suffers from a lot of issues. One, the world created within it is so poorly rendered it seems but overwhelming and fake. So there’s pretty much nothing in this book that has anything connecting it to the wider world. It’s all PLOT PLOT PLOT PLOT and nothing else, which CAN be fine but just doesn’t work here because she TRYING so hard to make this richer and real. There’s a historical context subplot that adds nothing. There’s a fake feminist feel to this novel that reads like […]

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6/23/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:249 |

NightinFail

The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

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Spoilers in this review. This book made me tired. I confess, I do not get what everyone sees in The Nightingale. I feel like because it is set in WWII/the Holocaust, and we know that terrible things happened, this book had ALL OF THE TERRIBLE THINGS and we just accept that EVERY TERRIBLE THING happened to the characters because, of course, it was a time of terrible things. But it was too much; it was simply not believable to me after a point. But I’m getting ahead of myself. The protagonists are Isabelle and Vianne, two French sisters. These two […]

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6/23/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:48 |

A tale of three cities

A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab

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In the world of V.E. Schwab’s Shades of Magic trilogy, in which this is the first book, there are parallel worlds. There used to be gateways between them, but now only the magical Antari (identified by having one normal and one fully black eyeball) are able to travel through to the various worlds, using their blood and magical ability. Young Kell, fostered with the royal family in Red London is one of these Antari. In each of the four worlds, there is a London, the geographical location of which overlaps. There is Grey London, which is the England of George III, […]

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6/23/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:53 |

Not the Eddie Murphy one

The Golden Child by Penelope Fitzgerald

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This is not based on the weird ass Eddie Murphy movie from the mid 80s with that weird haunted sword or pipe or whatever it was. Instead this is a kind of mystery, kind of comedy of manners taking place in a Natural History museum the night before a huge new opening. In this novel, several key figures circulate around the opening of a new exhibit that will introduce the world to the collected findings about an ancient civilization: Garamantia. It has old burial vessels, pots, a strange hieroglyphic language, other assorted odds and ends. If it sounds like ancient […]

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6/23/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:248 |

A Tana French wannabe

False Mermaid by Erin Hart

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This is a mystery starring a bunch of Irish people with a taste of the possibly-supernatural thrown in. It reads like Tana French wrote it when she was in eighth grade, before she learned to actually be good. Nora’s sister Triona was murdered five years ago. She suspects her sister’s husband Peter, but the rich golden boy was never charged, and the murder is still unsolved. Nora fled home to Ireland to recover, but returns to her family’s relocated home in the States when she learns that Peter is getting remarried in five days. She wants to solve her sister’s […]

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6/23/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:15 |

Is this where the Roxane Gay fan club meets?

Bad Feminist: Essays by Roxane Gay

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I finally made it to the Roxane Gay party! Bad Feminist is a critically acclaimed collection of essays by Roxane Gay that covers many topics. The essays are divided into categories such as “Gender and Sexuality,” “Race and Entertainment,” “Politics, Gender and Race,” and “ME.” Within each category, Gay offers a number of essays related to the topic at hand, writing with insight, well-argued liberal opinions, and humor. She is well versed in politics and pop culture, and is willing to reveal something of herself while discussing TV, movies, reproductive rights, books, politics, and more. These essays read as if […]

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6/23/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:26 |

Button Button

Gwendy's Button Box by Stephen King and Richard Chizmar

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I am not sure what if any real impression this book made on me. The second story was kind of a throw-away one altogether, but I thought the main story was a perfectly interesting and adequate one. When I was a teenager, I was fat. And as an adult, I was too for a long time. Just like maybe I do now with money-issues, even though I get by, I would spend a lot of time thinking about what would happen if all my weight-issues would be solved in one fell swoop. I tried to lose weight about a 1000 […]

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6/23/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:247 |

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