Cannonball Read 10

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Lisa Bee

Looks like CBR10 will be my 6th year participating in Cannonball Read! Catch me doing most of my reading while waiting for customers to come in to work.

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A Couple of Friends Fumbling Their Way Through a Not-Quite-Zombie Apocalypse Situation

This Book is Full of Spiders (Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It) by David Wong

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I previously read John Dies at the End by David Wong about two years ago, and just now remembered that there was a sequel to it after my friend mentioned that I could borrow her copy should it ever be returned to her from a previous reader… I myself ended up checking this book out of the library not a single day before my friend got her own copy handed back to her literally right in front of my own two eyes. Isn’t that coincidental… or is it?? This Book is Full of Spiders begins a while after the events […]

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10/5/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:53 |

A Balancing Act of Pushing Boundaries That Is Sometimes Successful… Sometimes

Preacher: books 1-6 by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon

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After finishing the 3rd season of AMC’s tv adaptation of Preacher this summer, and then reading the subsequent article on Pajiba about where it may go from here based on clues from the comics, I figured it was a good time to maybe check out Garth Ennis’ books for myself: I am a fan of reading comics from time to time, and this at least has a clear start and finish unlike some other characters with their many many arcs and appearances in other series, etc. And it’s also always interesting to see how things get adapted from their source […]

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9/28/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:52 |

A Sparkling World of Intrigue

The Cruel Prince by Holly Black

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I’ve read a few of Holly Black’s other novels dealing with faeries which were alright but not bad, and hearing good things about The Cruel Prince, I figured it was worth a read! And it was quite an entertaining YA novel, though I can’t say that I loved it. The Cruel Prince begins with three young sisters living in the human world: two twins named Taryn and Jude, and an older sister who is actually half-human-half-fae named Vivienne (or Vivi). The three live with their mother and father, until the father of Vivi returns to bring his daughter back to […]

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9/12/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:46 |

Stories About Fish People Are Actually About MORE Than Just Fish People, You Know?

Teeth by Hannah Moskowitz

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I actually just heard about this novel from a recent list on Pajiba titled: “6 Romance and YA Novels We’d Like to See Netflix Adapt Following ‘To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before’”, and upon seeing it described as being about a “magical gay fish boy”, I immediately started text-hollering to my best friend about what a big time it is for fish-people/cryptid… lovers (which is one of our running jokes right now, I KNOW it’s not as funny to anyone that isn’t the two of us). But anyways, I just had to know more. And what I got was […]

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9/3/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:45 |

All Those Seafood Descriptions Sure Sound Tasty To Me!

Cinnamon and Gunpowder by Eli Brown

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Continuing with my intake of pirate-themed books and tv this year, we have Cinnamon and Gunpowder! A delicious (haha) and fun story from the point of view of a master chef named Owen in the 1800s who is kidnapped by an infamous pirate captain known as Mad Hannah Mabbot: Mabbot has killed Owen’s previous employer, and takes him on to her ship with the intention of making him prepare for her a delicious meal every Sunday. From this basic premise we see Owen struggle to try and escape, as well as to figure out how exactly to prepare fancy meals […]

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8/31/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:44 |

Reading Too Many Novels Can Make a Young Lady’s Imagination Run Wild, You Know! Same Here, TBH

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

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Before now, the only novel by Jane Austen I had read was Pride and Prejudice back in high school, and to be honest I remember the film adaptations of it more than the actual reading of the novel. So in approaching Northanger Abbey, there was a bit of an adjustment for me in getting into the language and writing style of Austen, but after a bit of a curve and effort to get going at first, it became smoother sailing. I can understand why some people might find this novel perhaps a little slow in that a lot of the […]

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8/24/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:43 |

“The Power of Words […] They Hooked into Invididuals and Wormed Through Generations.”

The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin

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I am but one of a number of Cannonballers who have read The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin so far this year! And for the most part I enjoyed it, as I know some others did. Though I think the front half really got me more so than the latter half, which is not to say that things don’t all come together and create a beautiful story, but I think it really boils down to feeling more of a connection with some of the characters whose points of view are focused on earlier on. The Immortalists tells the story of four […]

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8/17/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:42 |

“It’s Wrong What They Say About the Past, I’ve Learned, About How you Can Bury it. Because the Past Claws its Way Out.”

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

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My friend and I were talking about books recently, and she said something about how a lot of the things I had been reading lately sounded very depressing. And I sometimes ask myself why I would want to read something about someone’s pain and hurt, which is a question that I can’t always answer, but it often boils down to the fact that the subjects surrounding this pain is usually one of importance, or perhaps despite all the sorrow there is also a piece of hope within these stories that makes you think that maybe not everything is hopeless. I […]

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8/16/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:41 |


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