Cannonball Read 11

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Longer is not better

Kingdom of Ash by Sarah J. Maas

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OH GOD I DID IT. Just like that, Throne of Glass is finally freaking over. I thought this day would never come and now that it’s here (well, passed, I finished this last week) I can’t quite believe it. Another Sarah J. Maas series is in the books (hah!) and you know what, I hate it less than A Court of Thorns and Roses. Kingdom of Ash is LONG, y’all. I got a look at it in a bookstore where I giggled as I pointed it out to my mom and this tome puts Feast for Crows to shame. It is a lot of book […]

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4/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:32 |

I have no idea what the h*ck I just read

Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi

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You know the blinking white guy gif? That was me for like the entirety of this book. I still have no idea what the hell it was about or what happened to why. This one needs a deep read, not a piece-by-piece metro read but I gave it what I had and I am still so lost. Can someone smarter than me tell me what I just read? Gingerbread is part Hansel and Gretel, part bedtime story, and part fever dream. There’s the start of the book where it feels like nothing happens for pages and pages and pages and […]

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4/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:31 |

The ups, downs, and forgetability of family

A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza

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I am SO far behind on my reviews so here’s to hoping I can remember enough about this book to put together a full review. The odds are not in my favor but I’m going to try. Here’s some more filler text! A Place for Us is set among a Muslim Indian family living in the United States. It’s a bit of a generational novel – the stories of the parents as a young couple, of the children as youngsters, of the children as adults all intermingled. There has been a schism in the family and the only son has […]

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4/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:30 |

Interesting premise, less interesting execution

Vox by Christina Dalcher

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So right after finishing Girls With Sharp Sticks, I went straight into another dystopian nightmare world rooted in the hatred of women. Don’t ask me why. Well here’s why. I was out of library books and had bought Vox on sale a couple of months ago. It was that or back to the Throne of Glass so. Here we are. Vox is pretty regularly compared to Handmaid’s Tale and for understandable reasons. Both exist in a not-so-distant future in which women are a visibly, unmistakably oppressed class. The difference is that Atwood sets up a world (there have been a record of Incidents and […]

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4/5/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:29 |

Puts the “young” in Young Adult

Girls With Sharp Sticks by Suzanne Young

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The genre label Young Adult can quite often simply mean that the book has a teenage protagonist. An author friend of mine drove the point home with, “If it had been released today, Catcher In The Rye would be marketed as Young Adult.” So I read them and they don’t always feel entirely age inappropriate. Girls With Sharp Sticks is not one of these books. I’m pretty sure this one was meant for twelve-year-olds. Which isn’t bad! Twelve-year-olds need books too. Call it My First Dystopia. Our narrator is a young woman (I think we’re meant to assume teenager, probably sixteen? But […]

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4/1/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:28 |

It really is, y’all

The Greatest Love Story Ever Told by Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman

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I was only a few chapters into this book when I started brainstorming ways to gift it to my fiance without coming off as patronizing. Giving a relationship book to your partner is … tricky (especially when your partner isn’t a big reader). It’s a wonderful, delightful book with some truly fantastic insights into relationships and specifically long-lasting, healthy relationships. And our relationship IS flipping amazing. I just loved this book. Anyway, I’ll figure it out. If you couldn’t tell by the cover, this is the love story of two of the greats: Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman. As someone […]

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3/28/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:27 |

The dangerous lull of monotony

Severance by Ling Ma

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In what seems to be a theme for me, this is a book about existing in a post-apocalyptic, plague-ravaged world. Thankfully, as part of this book being heaps and oodles better than The Twleve, it is not only a more well-considered and well-written book, when women’s biology is addressed it’s much less exploitative. Having a female author helps with that. Let me back up. Severance centers on a millennial woman named Candace. She works at a publishing house in New York, has an apartment in Brooklyn, and has no purpose or even call for purpose. She does her work, she goes home. […]

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3/21/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:26 |

Don’t read, not worth it

The Twelve by Justin Cronin

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Hello to my second unfinished book of the year. I just recently reviewed and really liked the first one, but this guy just wasn’t worth it. This is the sequel to The Passage and the same apocalypse with roughly the same characters, but you could tell me this was a whole new author and I would 100% believe you. The first book was all about worldbuilding the end of the world and the survival instincts of a wide band of characters. The second book boils down to “ladies be gettin raped (and other lady part adventures)”. It’s bad. I hopped over […]

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3/20/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:25 |


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