Cannonball Read 10

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Dome'Loki

Having successfully completed a half cannonball in 2017, I decided to take the plunge and signed up for a full cannonball this year! I predominantly read fantasy and science fiction, with a smattering of childrens and YA. This year I plan to read new authors, everything my ten year is reading, and work on the TBR.

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I told you once, I told you twice, all seasons of the year are nice for eating chicken soup with rice!

Chicken Soup with Rice: A Book of Months by Maurice Sendak

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Maurice Sendak is perhaps most famous for Where the Wild Things Are but he wrote many other books as well.  Chicken Soup with Rice: A Book of Months is a book from my childhood.  I don’t have any specific memories of it being read to me but I remember it being about while growing up.  When my first daughter was born my Mom passed our tiny, battered, dog chewed copy on to me.  As soon as I opened the cover, the sing song nature of the book and the refrain of “….chicken soup with rice” came rushing back to me. Chicken Soup with […]

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7/16/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:27 |

It’s not you, it’s me, and I’ve been horribly distracted to fully absorb this book

Void Star by Zachary Mason

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I think there is a better book in here than the one I read.  My kids are out of school, everyone’s schedule is out of whack, and we’ve had a flood, all of which has led to distracted reading (often when I’m super tired).  It took me longer to catch on to some twists than I suspect it ordinarily would have.  I expected things to come together in a certain way and then they didn’t, which isn’t a bad thing, but left me not feeling as invested as I otherwise might.  The book is sparse on dialog and long on […]

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7/16/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:26 |

Tugs at your heart

Ghosts by Raina Telgemeier

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Ghosts is the most recently published of Raina Telgemeier’s graphic novels and also the most fantastical.  Since I had read and reviewed her other three books earlier this year, it seemed only appropriate to do this one as well.  While I didn’t connect to this story the way I did Smile and Drama, I did fall for the characters and the story of family, identity, and death. Cat’s younger sister, Maya, was born with cystic fibrosis, it affects her lungs and digestive system and there is no cure.  The family moves from their Southern California home to the coastal Northern California town of Bahia […]

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6/29/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:25 |

What happens when you let the monster in?

Our Dark Duet: A Monsters of Verity Novel by Victoria Schwab

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Duana Taha (Canadian writer and producer) often says variations of, “Give them what they need, not what they want”.  Our Dark Duet, sequel to This Savage Song, seems like it was a case of Victoria Schwab following that advice.  I wanted this book to be something else, instead it was the story that needed to be told because of the setting and characters.  In my review of This Savage Song I said it, “is an urban fantasy inspired by the classic two houses divided shtick of Romeo and Juliet.”  When I wrote that sentence, it should have rang alarm bells in my head that […]

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6/26/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:24 |

Questioning identity and a prophecy to fullfill

Starless by Jacqueline Carey

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Jacqueline Carey is an author that delights in taking the known and giving it a twist to make something new.  She burst on to the fantasy scene with the epic Kushiel’s Dart series where she took the trope of a damsel in distress and turned it on it’s head.  Touched by Kushiel, the god of justice and punishment, to experience pleasure in pain Phedre uses her skills as a courtesan and spy to save her realm.  Her next work The Sundering duology asked the question what makes one side “good” and the other “evil” by telling an epic fantasy from the “evil” point of […]

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6/20/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:23 |

Scalzi at his finest

The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi

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If you have previously enjoyed books written by John Scalzi, I am certain you will quite like The Collapsing Empire.  It is Scalzi writing at his best.  The members of the World Science Fiction Society agree with me and it is nominated for Best Novel (Scalzi has previously won for Red Shirts). If you have never read anything by him, here are the reasons I look forward to his books.  Scalzi has a great sense of humor and this shines in his writing.  I tend to laugh out loud when reading his books, more so than any other author.  His settings […]

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6/12/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:22 |

The giant cat and realization of love are what drew me in years ago, now it’s the lessons in identity that stand out more

The Castle of Llyr: The Chronicles of Prydain, Book 3 by Lloyd Alexander

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The Prydain books were the next fantasy series I read after being introduced to the Chronicles of Narnia, and I read and re-read them from middle school to college multiple times.  Over the past couple of years I have been slowly re-reading the Chronicles of Prydain aloud to my now 10 year old daughter, one book a year has been the pace as we space them out with other books.  When we first sat down with The Castle of Llyr I recalled it as being my favorite book of the five in my pre-college years.  After this re-read I suspect that favoritism […]

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5/29/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:21 |

Phoebe and Marigold Heavenly Nostrils are the new Calvin and Hobbes

Phoebe and her Unicorn by Dana Simpson

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Phoebe and her Unicorn is at times charming and touching, but mostly it is funny, and overall an entertaining read.  What began in 2012 as a daily webcomic (originally titled Heavenly Nostrils) has now been gathered into seven graphic novels, and is still being posted daily by author and artist Dana Simpson.  On the strong recommendation of a friend I picked up the first graphic novel, Phoebe and her Unicorn, for my six year old.  She loves it, her ten year old sister loves it, and I quite like it too. Phoebe is a smart, goofy, and somewhat lonely fourth grader with a […]

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5/29/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:20 |


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