This review will be the definition of spoiler free, come see us June 1 to talk details. I am, as they say, perplexed by this book. It was like a roller coaster ride. At the beginning, I felt like this: There was a great wide world of story ahead and it was all for me. Historians! In the near future! Using the scientific method and time travel! But then, I spent a lot of time waiting for thins to start happening. And that was not […]
Discussion Topics: Cannonball Reads Science Fiction
Friends, Book Lovers, Cannonballers, lend me your eyeballs!It is time to post the preview for our discussion topics for Doomsday Book. As some of you may know I have not yet finished myself (80% and counting!), but with so much happening on the page there is plenty to talk about even before I reach the end. Some of you have already posted glowing reviews of Connie Willis’ book, and those of you that are finishing up should feel free to review before our discussion if […]
Add Exploding Pastries to My List of Wanted Weapons
First, a note of thanks to crystalclear for not wanting to bash my head in for how long this book sat on my desk, unread. It is her copy and I am a bad friend for not returning it to her in a timely fashion. Beware of friends who overcommit on their reading capacity, we’re a terrible liability to your own reading. 🙂 That being said, this is the final book of the Finishing School series, a prequel of sorts to The Parasol Protectorate series […]
A Boy With a Dream
Nate’s just this kid, you know? He’s out on an adventure, and he’s exploring who he is and what interests him, and what life is like outside of his hometown of Janksburg, PA and his typical, but pretty unhappy, family. He’s exploring New York and the audition process, and himself. I loved Nate. How could you not love someone so honest as a protagonist? Federle puts just the right amount of 13-year-old into Nate’s voice. He’s just the smallest bit standoffish, while also baring his […]
The Absent Bridgerton
The sixth book in the Bridgertons series brings us to the elusive Francesca. She’s rarely, if ever, mentioned in the other Bridgerton novels, except in passing generally explaining why she isn’t around (too young, too married, too widowed, too far away in Scotland). I’ll admit that I was concerned going into a book with a character we had so little invested in, but the last time I had that worry we got the great Benedict and Sophie in my second favorite Bridgerton book, An Offer […]
Women – Scarred and Exhausted.
I have a feeling my review of Moran’s How to Be a Woman is going to be more a discussion about these types of Feminism 101 books and the backlash they can sometimes bring. Here’s my disclaimer… we all have to start somewhere. And memoirs are inherently going to be the story of a person. This book is that, one woman’s account of how she came to deal with becoming and being a woman in the world she inhabits, today. She writes it honestly, humorously, […]
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