Cannonball Read 11

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Lisa Bee

Heading into my 7th year participating in Cannonball Read with CBR11! Catch me doing most of my reading while waiting for customers to come in to work.

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Lisa Bee's Reviews:

Setup to be an Epic Romance that Just Didn’t Do it For Me

The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson

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Apparently this book is a little divisive among my circle of friends: some loved it, some really didn’t. And unfortunately I am falling on the side of it not really being for me. Which is not to say I don’t love epic romances (The Song of Achilles is one of my absolute favourite books, after all!), but the story here wasn’t selling me beyond the initial concept. It’s a shame really, I found the premise to be so intriguing, but the overall experience quite lackluster overall. The Gargoyle is told from the point of view of a nameless protagonist, who […]

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1/19/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:3 |

The Start of Something that Hasn’t Quite Found It’s Footing Just Yet

The Foxhole Court (All for the Game #1) by Nora Sakavic

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The Foxhole Court is the first novel of Nora Sakavic’s All for the Game, which gives an intriguing beginning for what is to come, but unfortunately does not really stand so well as a book on it’s own: it’s clearly just a buildup, and given it’s slim run of under 300 pages, I wonder if perhaps it would not have work to put the 3 instalments of the series into one novel with parts/books 1-2-3 all together? But that’s not my decision at the end of the day, and I feel like I will continue to see where the series […]

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1/3/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:2 |

Enticing Cover and Art, but the Writing and Story Itself Could Be Worked More

FLEM by Rebecca Rosen

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This is a difficult one, because there is clearly a lot of emotion and depth to what the author is trying to do here, but the problem is that it just didn’t quite come through for me. Her illustrations and artwork are beautiful (that cover alone and the vibrant colours in it are stunning!), and it takes a lot of time and work to create both story and art for graphic novels, but this one here needed a lot more in order for it to work: leaving too much to be read between the lines leaves big gaping holes that […]

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1/1/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:1 |

Beautiful Writing Throughout, but the Last Quarter or So Left Me Unsatisfied

The Night Watch by Sarah Waters

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I haven’t read any of Sarah Waters’ works previously, though I did get about 20 pages into The Fingersmith before giving up as the language was just really difficult for me to get into (I have seen The Handmaiden a few times already anyways, and do love that movie a lot). But I watched the film adaptation of The Little Stranger recently and thought it might be worth a shot! And The Night Watch sounded interesting enough: the interwoven lives, secrets, identities, and shames of various people set within the backdrop of WWII London, living their everyday lives that aren’t necessarily tied up directly in the war in […]

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12/21/2018 's CBR10 Review No:63 |

Hold On To Your Hats, Turns Out I’m Mad

Adam by Ariel Scrag

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To say that this book is inelegant with the subjects it attempts to deal with is putting it kindly: this novel is obnoxious and gross. I don’t even remember how I first became aware of it, but I remember reading a synopsis and thinking, “that can’t be right?” I was baffled as to how it would work, and thought I certainly wouldn’t like it. But curiosity got the best of me (oh, also the author stating that people should read it before criticizing it, due to some backlash, and you know what, that’s fair enough), and turns out it was […]

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12/4/2018 's CBR10 Review No:62 |

I Made a Mistake Reading This Right Under the Cold Vent in my Room, I Tell You That

The Amityville Horror by Jay Anson

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This is probably a story that most people are familiar with from some adaptation or another, but upon seeing the old copy of this book on my friend’s shelf recently, I realized that I have neither seen nor read a single one? Which on the one hand makes sense because I don’t ever really read horror, but at the same time my friend has gotten me into watching horror movies within the last few years so this almost seems like a bit of an oversight! No time like the present, though! And I know that while this is said to […]

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11/28/2018 's CBR10 Review No:61 |

I’m Just Kind of Apathetic About This One

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

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Hmmm. I think I ruined my own experience of this one through my own past knowledge of it: I’m pretty sure I haven’t read it in the past, and yet, I was already aware of all the plot points once it started rolling. Beyond that, I suppose, there are the characters, but even they were totally disaffecting to me. There is a finely-crafted and unsettling mood around everything which works incredibly well in this story and it’s unfolding, but I felt like I knew exactly where it was coming from and the characters themselves were pretty predictable in my eyes. […]

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11/23/2018 's CBR10 Review No:60 |

You’re Trying a Little Hard to be Edgy There

Girls on Fire by Robin Wasserman

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I can’t remember where I heard about this book or why I jotted it down on the ever-expanding list of books to read that is constantly being updated in my phone. But then I happened upon it at the library while looking for something else and said, well there had to have been a reason I wanted to remember it for later, right? Turns out my intuition was wrong this time, as this was not an enjoyable one in my opinion. It’s funny, I actually started this novel immediately after finishing the graphic novel, Skim, and found a few coincidental […]

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11/18/2018 's CBR10 Review No:59 |


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