Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

“Every Age Must Come to an End” is an ominous beginning

The Fifth Season: The Broken Earth trilogy vol. 1 by N.K. Jemisin

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A few years ago I came across an excellent review of N.K. Jemisin’s The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms,  book one of the Inheritance trilogy, and was instantly intrigued.  It was put on my “in case of birthday or Christmas, please buy me” list and fortunately I received it later that year.  I was blown away by Jemisin’s incredibly creative world building and could not put the book down.  The third book in the Inheritance trilogy did not hold up as well as the first two, but the series as a whole had me eagerly looking for other works by Jemisin. I received The […]

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6/26/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:14 |

“End of All Things” as a title isn’t being overly dramatic

The End of All Things by John Scalzi

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This is review number lucky 13 and marks halfway through my half cannonball.  I’m on better track this year than last! The End of All Things is the sixth book in John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War universe and direct sequel to The Human Division.  THD is a set of thirteen standalone short stories (originally released serially in e-format and then collected in dead tree format) with a narrative thread tying the stories together.  TEoAT, while not advertised as such, feels similar only instead of short stories they are novellas (or maybe novelettes, I’m not sure where the distinction lies).  The book is […]

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6/3/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:13 |

The Golden Compass and joys of explaining “original sin”

The Golden Compass: His Dark Materials Trilogy vol. 1 by Philip Pullman

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This is probably my fourth reading of The Golden Compass and this time I read it aloud to my nine year old daughter over the course of several months at bedtime.  She’s already read The Chronicles of Narnia, started the Prydain Chronicles, and is three volumes into Harry Potter so now seemed like a good time to introduce her to the His Dark Materials trilogy.  I love introducing books to my daughter and watching her devour them the way I have.  Reading this book aloud make me wish I was better at British accents as often colloquial phrases didn’t sound right […]

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5/25/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:12 |

A Terrible Plan is an excellent read

Lumberjanes Vol. 3: A Terrible Plan by Noelle Stevenson & Shannon Watters

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At Wonder Con we wandered past the Boom!Box and Archaia publishing table and noticed that we were severely behind in our Lumberjanes collection.  This situation was immediately rectified.  Volume one previously reviewed in I want to be a Lumberjane.  In volume three, A Terrible Plan, Noelle Stevenson and Shannon Watters continue to produce highly entertaining Lumberjane stories with the help of some talented artists. A detail I love about the Lumberjanes graphic novels are how each chapter starts with a page from the Lumberjane field manual and a badge description.  This volume opens with the girls telling ghost stories to earn […]

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5/3/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:11 |

A Conjuring of Light – consumed at nearly light speed

A Conjuring of Light by V.E. Schwab

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On April 20th I went to see the always highly entertaining John Scalzi at my local independent bookstore.  While waiting for him to autograph several books, I was perusing the shelves as the line slowly wound through the store.  When I got to the Fantasy “S” section, the spine of A Conjuring of Light, third book in the Shades of Magic series, smacked me in the eyeballs.  A Conjuring of Light is the sequel to A Gathering of Shadows, which I reviewed last year.  When I found AGoS it was a surprise as I had not realized the first book in the series, A Darker Shade […]

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4/27/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:10 |

Beautiful tribute to Wonder Woman

Wonder Woman: The True Amazon by Jill Thompson

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For years my only knowledge of Jill Thompson was as the artist for the run of Sandman that is collected in Brief Lives, my favorite book of the series.  In 2015 she was a special guest of San Diego Comic Con and we had the pleasure of attending her panel.  Her panel was the first one of the day in that room and she was worried people wouldn’t come, so she brought doughnuts for those who did come.  In person she is funny, sweet and a delightful panelist.  Through the course of the panel we watched her paint a picture of […]

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4/19/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:9 |

Thrilling Adventure, Math and History! – Lovelace and Babbage have never been so exciting

The Thrilling Adventure of Lovelace and Babbage: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Computer by Sydney Padua

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A friend gave me this book for my birthday last October.  At the time I didn’t look too closely at it and assumed it was a typical nonfiction book.  While I am interested in the subject, non-fiction tends to be lower on my priority list, so it got shelved with my TBR and we moved on to cake and board games.  Last month I wasn’t able to write my review for The Bear and the Nightingale right away so thought it would be best to read something completely different and remembered this book.  Once I picked it up and cracked the cover […]

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4/14/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:8 |

The Bear and the Nightingale – a Russian fairytale

The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden

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One of my favorite booksellers raved about “The Bear and the Nightingale” and chose it to be the featured for the month of January at my local independent bookstore.  The high praise moved it up on my TBR pile.  At the time of reading I was thoroughly captivated by this charming Russian fairytale but now that two weeks have passed and I’m sitting down to review, I find there isn’t much to say.  The Bear and the Nightingale feels like a reimagining of an old fairytale where a young girl is sent off by her step-mother to find snowdrops in […]

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4/5/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:7 |

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