Cannonball Read 10

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Lives in Austin, Texas. Reads lots of books to avoid talking to other people. Proud MONSTER to the world's best/weirdest dog.

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How Far Would You Go to Protect What is Important?

Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer

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Well, do not swear. Although I joy in thee, I have no joy of this contract tonight. It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden, Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be Ere one can say “It lightens.” Juliet to Romeo, Act 2, scene 2   Last year, narfna reviewed Too Like the Lightning and requested that we all read it. I was intrigued, but the book wasn’t close enough to my price point of free. Fortunately, Tor.com offered it as a free download in March. I snapped it up. Narfna summed up her initial reaction to the […]

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4/19/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:12 |

I Have a List Of Grievances

Three Blind Dates, Two Wedding Crashers by Meghan Quinn

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I joined Kindle Unlimited and went on a terrible romance spree. I’m not even bothering with most of the books, but Meghan Quinn’s Dating by Numbers series irritated me enough that I have compiled a list of grievances. In Three Blind Dates, Noely Clark is looking for a way to find love without trusting her terrible taste in men. She signs up for a new matchmaker service that comes with it’s own restaurant and dating app. Noely is the cohost of a morning show in Malibu, so naturally, her dating adventures end up on her show. First she’s matched with […]

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4/10/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:11 |

I’m Not a Combat Murderbot, I’m Security

All Systems Red: The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells

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I had a glitch yesterday and lost all my free Tor ebooks off my Kindle. I was in the middle of reading Too Like the Lightning. I frantically went over to the Tor book of the month site to see if I could get it back. I could not, but I could recover this month’s offering, Martha Wells’ All Systems Red: The Murderbot Diaries. Fortunately, the lovely and amazing teresaelectro was able to help me out with Too Like the Lightning. In the meantime, I had started Martha Wells’ novella. The very first paragraph hooked me. I COULD HAVE BECOME a mass […]

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4/10/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:9 |

Naledi does not have time for knock off Nigerian email scams.

A Princess in Theory by Alyssa Cole

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I was standing in the book section of my local Walmart having a revelation about how Trump became President when A Princess in Theory jumped out at me like a life line. I grabbed it in hopes that Alyssa Cole will become Walmart’s biggest selling author and they will look into the abyss that is their corporate soul. And don’t judge me, I had been given a Walmart gift card. Naledi Smith is a Public Health grad student in New York City specializing in epidemiology. Her life is work and school. Orphaned at an early age, she has no one on […]

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3/14/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:8 |

In Praise of Awkward Sex

Sweet Disorder by Rose Lerner

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When I was in college, one of my mentors was a lovely woman named Marita Woodruff. Marita wasn’t shy about sharing her life with her students when appropriate. One of her more famous moments was when she was talking about sex. She said, “sex is awkward and messy!” And then she would tell the story of when she and her late husband fell off the bed when making love. At the time that sounded more uncomfortable than romantic. A couple of decades and more experience later, I get it. Sex is awkward and messy and fun and intimate and imperfect. […]

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3/9/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:7 |

Oh, If I Had a Hammer

The Unworthy Thor by Jason Aaron, Olivier Coipel

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You may have heard, Thor is a woman now. What happened? Nick Fury whispered in Thor’s ear and with a few words made him unworthy of Mjolnir. His ex, Jane Foster picked it up and took on the mantle of Thor. Thor got all upset, tried to fight her (not knowing it was Jane), but Mjolnir likes Jane better. At some point, Thor Odinson lost his arm and had it replaced with Uru. Now he and Bucky are twinsies. Maybe they could go on adventures together, or, more likely, sit around drinking and bitching about how cold their metal arm […]

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3/7/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:6 |

Context and Choices

Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah

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My uncle, an occasional Cannonballer, sent me Trevor Noah’s Born a Crime and an awesome coffee mug for Christmas. I was delighted. I love reading and drinking coffee. The beginning of the year turned out to be incredibly stressful and I struggled to focus on reading. I finally made it though. I read the book and then I immediately reread the book. It’s so good. Noah introduces each new section or story with a page or two of historical context. The context is necessary to understand how Apartheid was built, how the different groups were created and then set against each […]

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3/6/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:5 |

Everything Beth Ellen Said is Accurate, But I Still Enjoyed It

From Lukov With Love by Mariana Zapata

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I’m having a hard time focusing on reading. It’s not that things are bad. Things are stressful in a way that uses up a lot of my mental and emotional energy. I’m working on a couple of books I received as gifts over the holidays (one from my uncle and fellow Cannonballer, degregorious), but the focus isn’t there. Beth Ellen’s review of From Lukov With Love plus the Olympic figure skating on my tv and all over my social media feeds gave me an urge to read it. I have a similar relationship with Zapata. The woman does need an editor. […]

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2/16/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:4 |


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