Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

This is book eight; time to stop wanting this series to be something it’s not.

Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd (Flavia de Luce, #8) by Alan Bradley

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This was back on form after the disappointment of the last one. This series still isn’t perfect for me, but I find it really comforting and enjoyable anyway. I think I just need to let this series be itself and stop wanting it to be what it’s not. The mysteries and plot twists are always going to be predictable. Flavia is always going to pursue random avenues of inquiry that somehow magically lead her to answers. There is probably always going to be a misbalance between the mystery plot and the character plot. And Bradley’s sense of narrative is always going to be […]

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7/20/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:47 |

Sanderson does detective fiction with a sf twist.

Snapshot by Brandon Sanderson

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I swear, one of these days Brandon Sanderson will write something that I dislike—something that is boring or trite or that just plain doesn’t work—but that day is not this day. This day that son of a gun has written yet another clever, entertaining story for me to four or five star. And this time he takes on detective stories! With a fantasy twist, of course. In the near future, some sort of supernatural event has reshaped the world, and made it possible to recreate exact, life-size replicas of entire days. It’s left vague why this ‘technology’ was actually created, […]

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6/21/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:46 |

Somebody give Glen Weldon a high-five.

The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture by Glen Weldon

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The best thing about The Caped Crusade, Glen Weldon’s book-length ode to Batmania, is Glen Weldon himself. Sure, the actual book is informative and well thought out, organized and insightful. But it’s also got a personality to it, thanks to Weldon, who impregnates even the most mundane sentence with his dry wit and his enthusiasm for his two subjects (Batman, the nature of nerdery). His twin theses? Nerdery isn’t about what you love, but loving what you love with a staggering, vacuum-sucking passion. And that all the Batmans that have existed over his seventy-eight year history, from the campiest Batus-dancing […]

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6/21/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:45 |

I liked this better two months ago.

Crown of Midnight (Throne of Glass, #2) by Sarah J. Maas

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This book has definitely soured on me since I finished it in May, which is a shame since I am quite literally about to start the third book tonight. This series for me has turned out so far to be a shoddily written, cliché-packed, predictable behemoth with an uninteresting not-as-smart-or-talented-as-she-or-the-author-thinks-she-is protagonist. It’s very much a yo-yo book for me. One minute I’ll be rolling my eyes so hard I’m about to sprain my optical nerve, the next Maas writes something genuinely interesting. Also, both books of hers I’ve read now fall into the same traps. They start out pretty dull, […]

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6/21/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:44 |

A HUG IS LIKE VIOLENCE MADE OF LOVE

Empire's End (Star Wars: Aftermath, #3) by Chuck Wendig

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“When they say to one another, ‘May the Force be with you,’ it is precisely this that they mean: It is a wish that when the time comes to leap into the void and to make a decision based on instinct and trust, you are rewarded for that act and not punished. The hope is that if you meet the galaxy halfway, it meets you in the middle and carries you the rest of the distance.”   I literally checked this book out of the library four times before I finally finished it (and kept it until forced to return it […]

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6/21/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:43 |

A disappointing history of Nancy Drew, my childhood hero.

Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her by Melanie Rehak

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So aside from this gorgeous Scandinavian fairytale book I used to repeatedly check out from the library as a child*, the Nancy Drew books make up the entirety of my first real literary memories. When you have a bookworm for a child, know that that child will scour your entire house for any book it can find**, and will then proceed to read any and all books indiscriminately. This works out well for the child, generally, but you should know it’s going to happen. That’s how I found my mom’s collection of all the original run Nancy Drew books, up […]

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6/14/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:42 |

A debut that deserves all the praise it’s been given.

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

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I have been trying to figure out what I want to say about this book for literally months now, and I just can’t do it. I give up. The amount of things I want to say are all swirling around in my brain and getting mixed up with each other, and everything is coming out all garbled whenever I try, so I give up and am now officially half-assing this review in a stream of consciousness manner with no regards for structure, and I am no longer going to worry about trying to say everything I want to. Dill with it. This […]

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6/14/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:41 |

Late to the party with this review of a fun book involving mythological bestiality, among other delights.

Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman

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Norse mythology is so weird, guys. I mean, all mythology is weird, it’s just, I can’t get over Loki seducing that horse. This was a really fun audiobook. Gaiman reads it himself, which I always enjoy. I know some people don’t like his cadence, but it works for me. Especially when he gets all cheeky with his words and his tone of voice matches it. And it’s such a fast listen, only clocking in at six and a half hours. I’d imagine the hard copy would be just as much fun, though. Gaiman has a way with words in whatever […]

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6/9/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:40 |

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