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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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As good as this book was, I spent the whole time wanting to read something else.

Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age by Stephen R. Platt

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CBR11 Bingo: True Story I’m a pretty big history buff, but my familiarity is pretty constrained to the US and Europe. Unsurprising, given that I’m a white American. That’s what we’re taught in school, and that’s what we’re exposed to as a culture. But I’m also a pretty big political junkie. So China is a pretty important subject that I don’t know nearly enough about. Going into this, I knew that the Opium Wars were a thing. I knew that Great Britain sought inroads into China, and that the East India Tea Company was somehow involved in that. But I […]

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9/14/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:22 |

Absolute perfection

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

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CBR11 Bingo: Own Voices. This is the best book I’ve read all year. And considering that it’s been read by 28 other Cannonballers, that shouldn’t be too surprising. Starr Carter goes to a largely white private school, but lives in the poor, largely black, community of Garden Heights. While at a friend’s party, she runs into childhood friend (and first boyfriend), Khalil. He’s selling drugs now, a fact which disappoints and confuses her because of how drugs have ravaged his mother. The party is broken up by gunfire, and Khalil and Starr escape together. While driving her home, Khalil is […]

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9/8/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:21 |

Not all I had hoped for, but there’s enough here to bring me back.

RASL (Vol. 1): The Drift by Jeff Smith

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CBR11 Bingo: Illustrated It needs to be said (because I’ll take every opportunity I can to say it) that Bone is one of my favorite books, and I will never not recommend it to people. When I read comics as a teenager, it was one of the stand-out series being published at the time: creator owned, independently published, with all the writing and art done by one person. And it was beautiful. The writing was charming and endearing, and the art was ambitious, innovative, and impassioned. He could convey so much without dialogue. It was a tour-de-force. When the series […]

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8/25/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:20 |

Angsty, charming, good….and problematic?

Emergency Contact by Mary H.K. Choi

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CBR11 Bingo –  Cannonballer Says So, scootsa1000 reviewed this book two months ago, and she could’ve just said, “Hey, Rainbow Rowell says this is the best book she read last year.” That would’ve been enough to get me to read Emergency Contact. Instead, she went on to give a really good review of the book. I suggest reading it. Penny is a freshman in college, and I don’t think she’s ever looked forward to anything in her life as much as she has getting away from her mother, her high school, and her boyfriend. She’s a little odd, and definitely […]

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8/18/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:19 |

He was tall, and could fight, and was a smartass…and all the women loved him.

Rebel Fleet by BV Larson

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CBR11 Bingo: Summer read I’ve long struggled with BV Larson. He’s, supposedly, one of the most popular ebook writers, but his books have been….problematic. And this one is no different. Rebel Fleet starts off well enough. Leo Blake, out of the US Navy, is now a beach bum in Hawaii. He stumbles upon a mysterious vessel in the ocean, and is propelled through a series of violent interactions that lead, ultimately, to him joining a vast intergalactic fleet of starships. It gets a little outrageous. But the beginning is fairly interesting. Blake trying to figure out what’s happening, and why, […]

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8/17/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:18 |

Hey look, I did a thing. After eight months…..STATS!

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As some of you may have noticed, we’re doing something a little different this year. Namely, I have a new baby in the house (she’s currently mewling at me from her swing, refusing to go to sleep), and don’t have the time for the monthly updates. So I instead wanted to focus on quarterly updates (which I think I did last year). That turned into a half-year update….and here I am in August finally getting around to it. But – and this is the good news – I’ve taught myself a bit of coding, which has made my job so […]

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8/9/2019 |

I had a lot of ideas for this review….and then I waited two weeks to write it.

Recursion by Blake Crouch

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CBR11 Bingo – Science, because this is a science-centered science fiction novel. I should stay on top of these books. By the time I sit down to review them, they’ve already started to fade from my mind. I drove to New York last summer, and used Blake Crouch’s Dark Matter to fill most of the trip. I enjoyed the book enough to pick up his Wayward Pines series (which I didn’t enjoy quite as much). Seeing that he had a new book out, I jumped at the chance to read it. Helena Smith is a neuroscientist working on a memory […]

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7/24/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:17 |

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 |


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