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I've been doing this since 2015, and though I'm not going to read a hundred books a year, I plan on doing this for the foreseeable future. I also maintain the Cannonball Read database, and make infrequent updates on our reading habits.

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The Lost World without the racism.

Outland by Dennis E. Taylor

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Read for CBR Bingo: History/schmistory So, I love science fiction. That’s news to me. When I self-conceptualize, I love fantasy. I grew up on Tolkien and George RR Martin and Robert Jordan. When I was younger and still aspired to be famous and noteworthy, I thought I would be a fantasy novelist. But looking back through the books I’ve read for Cannonball Read, 32% of my reviews have been of science fiction novels (compared to 21% fantasy and 19% history). Anyway. I read Dennis E. Taylor’s Bobiverse books back in 2017, and I loved the first book. The rest of […]

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7/5/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:16 |

Uh, weren’t we having a mutiny? (redux)

The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi

The Consuming Fire by John Scalzi

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The Collapsing Empire (4 stars) I read (and reviewed) this back in 2017, but had forgotten it when I tried reading its follow-up back at the end of last year. So, I put off reading book 2 until I could go back and re-read this. And here we are. These books take place far in humanity’s future. We’ve left earth and colonized parts of the galaxy using something called “the flow”, which is a system of highways or rivers that allow us to cross the stars in a reasonably short period of time. They’re kind of like wormholes, I guess, […]

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7/5/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:15 |

I enjoyed this book, despite the fact that I forgot all about it

War of the Spheres by BV Larson and James Millington

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I first came across BV Larson a year ago, and wrote a 4,500 word review of his Undying Mercenaries series. While I enjoyed the books, I had some fairly serious problems with his characters and thought there may some underlying issues with Larson’s worldview. But I wasn’t sure how much of what I was picking up on was an actual indication of Larson’s thoughts, and how much was just fairly shallow writing about shallow people. Having read something else of his, I think I may have jumped the gun a bit. I mean, I still think the characters (the main […]

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7/4/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:13 |

If Jack Reacher were written by Tom Clancy, but with monsters

Patient Zero by Jonathan Maberry

Zero Tolerance by Jonathan Maberry

Material Witness by Jonathan Maberry

Deep, Deep Dark by Jonathan Maberry

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Joe Ledger works for the Baltimore PD, and was an Army Ranger back before 9/11 blew up the world. He’s a pretty normal dude in his mid-30s, except he’s an absolute badass who’s really good at beating people up. We’ve seen this story told a thousand times. If this was a movie in the ’80s, it’d probably star Arnold Schwarzenegger or Sylvester Stallone. If it was the ’90s, it’d probably star Mel Gibson or Bruce Willis. If it was made today….I don’t know. Maybe the Rock? But not necessarily because this book is that bad – it’s just that when […]

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6/11/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:12 |

When the horror of dystopia seems like a moderate improvement on reality

The Store by Bentley Little

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Book synopsis: In a small Arizona town, a man counts his blessings: a loving wife, two teenage daughters, and a job that allows him to work at home. Then “The Store” announces plans to open a local outlet, which will surely finish off the small downtown shops. His concerns grow when “The Store’s” builders ignore all the town’s zoning laws during its construction. Then dead animals are found on “The Store’s” grounds. Inside, customers are hounded by obnoxious sales people, and strange products appear on the shelves. Before long the town’s remaining small shop owners disappear, and “The Store” spreads […]

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5/19/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:8 |

The truth is, men make terrible pigs

Circe by Madeline Miller

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I knew almost nothing of Circe before going into this. I remembered that she was in The Odyssey, and that Odysseus lived on her island for a time, but nothing more than that. She is the daughter of Helios, and is an unremarkable and naive nymph. Shunned by her siblings and dismissed by her parents, she finally discovers that her power lies in witchcraft. Because of this, and for how she uses it, she is exiled for eternity by her father to an uninhabited island. She (spoilers) learns to harness her power in a way her more powerful siblings do […]

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5/19/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:7 |

I came for the fighting, but stayed for the sweet, sweet love

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

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I’m closer to 40 than I am 30, and I’ve never read The Iliad. I did, however, read The Odyssey in middle school, and quite liked it – though poetry has never been my thing, and the archaic formatting of the translation I read bothered me. Still. It was a good story, and I was in the florescence of my love for heroic fantasy, so The Odyssey kind of felt like the genesis for the types of stories I was reading at the time. So it’s a little surprising, all these years later, that I never picked up The Iliad. […]

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4/8/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:6 |

I read a thing.

Storm World by BV Larson

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Last year, I wrote a 4,500 word review of BV Larson’s Undying Mercenaries series. Overall, I liked the series but wasn’t impressed with the sexist overtones of the books, or the possibly alt-right leanings of the author (which I may have just invented out of whole cloth). Despite my real issues with the series, it was enjoyable in a “it’s leeching happiness from my soul” kind of way (sort of like Taco Bell), so I didn’t really have much choice in picking up the latest installment in the series. This time out, McGill and Turov are….kind of dating. Or, at […]

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3/17/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:5 |


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