Cannonball Read 11

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

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A little too familiar

13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl by Mona Awad

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I picked this one up after catching Jenny S’s review the other day. Weirdly my library had it immediately available so here we are. I agree with Jenny, this is not one I see myself reading again. Or even recommending, honestly. Still, I wouldn’t call it bad. 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl is comprised of multiple small stories seemingly about the same woman (Lizzie/Beth/Liz/Elizabeth) strung throughout her life and throughout her battle with herself and her weight. Her dress size changes drastically, but her self worth is pretty well-cemented – I use “cemented” deliberately, given how it […]

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1/11/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:8 |

I couldn’t finish it

I'll Be Gone In The Dark by Michelle McNamara

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This book was everywhere and I love Patton Oswald and it’s really well written, I just couldn’t. It’s true crime, and true crime and I don’t mix – I’m too squeamish. Lord knows why, but I keep trying. I listened to half an episode of My Favorite Murderer before I nope-d right out of there. A full series podcast came out about a recent local crime and I don’t think I lasted five minutes. These are horrible things that actually happened to real people and it’s not that I think the genre is by default exploitative (although yeah it sometimes […]

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1/9/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:7 |

Rainbow Rowell is my happy place

Carry On by Rainbow Rowell

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Rainbow Rowell books are the written equivalent of a weighted blanket and cup of tea. The moment I open one, I feel immediately comfortable and content. There is something inherently warm about her writing so much so that even when the characters are in tough situations, I’m just happy to be there. Carry On, well, carries on this grand tradition and I am just tickled pink that she wrote it. I’ll probably reread Fangirl this year because it was my first and always favorite of her books (I gave my sister a copy for Christmas, I put it at 2% odds she […]

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1/8/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:6 |

I am not smart enough for this book

Feel Free by Zadie Smith

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Last year, I read a number of books of short stories and reiterated in each review that short stories aren’t really my thing. I like a lot of plot to sink my teeth into and by and large, I don’t get that from short stories. Doesn’t mean they’re bad, just means they’re not for me. I get Zadie Smith’s Feel Free and somehow just completely missed the part where it says “essays” on the front cover. So like short stories, but non fiction. I very nearly gave up on this to move on to more fictional pastures, but Obama released his list […]

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1/7/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:5 |

Oh h*ck I’m gonna buy the whole series

Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas

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A wiser Cannonballer than I described Sarah J. Maas’s A Court of Thorns and Roses series as great hangover reads and I was tempted to extend that to her Throne of Glass series but these aren’t so much “stall your pain” as “forget the world”. And with the way the world is right now, I could do with a whole lot of forgetting. Again, I reiterate, these books are not good. Yet somehow I can’t put them down. I start reading and look up and HOURS have passed and I’ve been filling my brain with empty calories and I’m still hungry. I can easily […]

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1/4/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:4 |

I loved it, even with my surface knowledge of Star Trek

Redshirts by John Scalzi

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Okay, so my full knowledge of Star Trek can be summed up thusly: Picard face-palms, that one dude sits in chairs like he’s hurdling, and redshirts are cannon fodder. And honestly? That’s all I needed to know to enjoy the hell out of Redshirts. Those with an encyclopedic knowledge of Star Trek (which I’m willing to bet is more than a few of you) will probably fall head over heels in love. The title may pretty quickly clue you in – Redshirts takes place in a world much like the Enterprise, but with the focus decidedly off the bridge. Meet the actual […]

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1/4/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:3 |

I mean, I’m incensed by how not good it was?

The Incendiaries by R. O. Kwon

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This may be my biggest pet peeve in literature – writing dialogue sans quotation marks. I’ve ranted about it time and time again, because it doesn’t make you edgy, it makes you exhausting. Plus this book felt like a more boring knockoff of The Girls, by Emma Cline, which I also hated. Mostly because of the cult stuff. What happens is, I look over these lists of “best books of XYZ” and chuck them all on my hold list at the library because why not, forgetting the fundamental truth that I don’t like people or their opinions. Because whoever slapped this […]

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

Somehow Douglas Adams + Neil Gaiman doesn’t work

Don't Panic by Neil Gaiman

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On the surface, this book was made for me. A biography of Douglas Adams and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, as taken down by Neil Gaiman. It was like someone reached into my head and wrote out my wildest dreams. And look at that cover! I am so easily sold with a good cover, y’all. There is so much that this book could have been and yet it wasn’t. I just didn’t feel this book. I appreciated Gaiman writing about Adams in the style of Adams in a way that wasn’t so much directly aping as it was loving tribute. […]

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


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