Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

This was, without a doubt, the right book at the right time. I loved it. Also, Cary Elwes.

My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, Jodi Meadows

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Coming off of a few books with heavier themes, I decided to look for something fun and easy to read at the pool. Scanning through my kindle purchase (seriously, there are SO MANY), I came across this one, and remembered that my fellow cannonballers thought somewhat highly of it. Now, look. I’m no historian. But I’m pretty sure this version of the events between the death of King Henry and the coronation of Bloody Mary aren’t historically accurate. I know a little about King Edward and Jane Grey. After watching season one of The Crown, I started reading some British […]

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6/21/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:42 |

When you dedicate a book to Han Solo, odds are I’m going to like it.

Waking Gods by Sylvain Neuvel

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The CBR hivemind has been quite divided over Sleeping Giants, the first book in Sylvain Neuvel’s proposed trilogy (The Themis Files) about gigantic alien robots discovered on earth after being buried for thousands of years. I really enjoyed the interview/journal aspect of the storytelling and found the plot to be intriguing and fast-paced. I liked the confusion that the scientists were facing, and that there were people in Washington who had information, but weren’t all that willing to share it…unless Kung Pao chicken was involved. And I was down for book two when it came up in my library queue. […]

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6/15/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:41 |

He walked like no man on earth, I swear he had no name.

Gwendy's Button Box by Stephen King and Richard Chizmar

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As you know by now, I’m a sucker for Uncle Stevie. Anything he writes, I’ll read. Novel, short story, op-ed, tweets, collaborations…I’m there. That’s why I’m a Constant Reader. This isn’t the first collaboration with another author that I’ve read by King. He wrote a few short stories with his son, Joe Hill that were pretty good (In the Tall Grass was legitimately terrifying). His book with Stewart O’Nan, Faithful, is probably my favorite non-fiction book of all time. So, even though I had never heard of co-author Richard Chizmar, it didn’t really matter. I was going to read this […]

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6/8/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:40 |

“He read while he walked. He read while he ate. The other librarians suspected he somehow read while he slept, or perhaps didn’t sleep at all.”

Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor

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I love Laini Taylor. I adored Daughter of Smoke and Bone, and I really liked Days of Blood and Starlight. (I admit, I was not 100% enthusiastic about Dreams of Gods and Monsters. But as a whole, the trilogy was top-notch.) So I was ready to love this. And I did. Until the very last page.** Super quick overview here: Like the Smoke & Bone trilogy, Strange the Dreamer takes place in a fantasy world at an unknown time in history. Our hero, Lazlo Strange, is an orphan, who by chance, has his dream job working in the largest library […]

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6/7/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:39 |

Don’t ask me silly questions, I won’t play silly games. I’m just a simple choo-choo train, and I’ll always be the same.

Charlie the Choo-Choo by Beryl Evans

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This is a “children’s” book that I would never, ever recommend to any child. Written as a companion piece to Uncle Stevie’s The Waste Lands, this is an illustrated version of the story that Jake Chambers buys at The Manhattan Restaurant of the Mind from Calvin Tower. He had it when he was a boy. So did Susannah Dean. And so did Eddie Dean. And none of them liked it. They all wondered if the illustrations of Charlie and Engineer Bob showed a happy train and driver pulling kids screaming with joy, or an insane duo, forcing children who were […]

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6/1/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:38 |

My first thought was, he lied in every word.*

The Waste Lands by Stephen King

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Yeah, I’m obsessed with these books. I just can’t stop reading (or listening to) them. I’m stuck in my own self-imposed wheel of Ka, destined to follow the adventures of Eddie and Jake and Roland and Oy (and ok, Susannah) for the rest of my days. (Note: This is my second time reviewing this book for the Cannonball Read…my first attempt was way way back in CBR3.) It’s funny how each time I read these Dark Tower books (and stories and graphic novels), I come away with something different. For instance, I used to love (LOVE!) Eddie Dean. He was up on […]

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6/1/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:37 |

I can’t believe the news today. I can’t close my eyes and make it go away.

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

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You may be wondering, hey, what does a 30+ year old song about violence due to religious intolerance in Ireland have to do with this book about the police shootings of innocent young black men in modern day America? And I’ll tell you, I’m not quite sure. But I listened to this song a lot while I was reading this book and this opening line really stuck with me. There’s been a lot of buzz about Angie Thomas’ debut novel, and all of it is deserved. This is a riveting, heartbreakingly sad, earnestly funny, beautifully written book. I didn’t particularly enjoy reading […]

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5/31/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:36 |

“The trouble with denial is that when the truth comes, you aren’t ready.”

We are Okay by Nina LaCour

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I’ve been somewhat slow with my reviews lately, mostly because the books that I’ve been reading have taken me a bit of time to process. In fact, I’m not quite sure I’m done figuring them out yet. I first saw We are Okay at the library on the new YA shelf. The cover drew me in, it had those same dreamy pinks and blues as the Paper Girls cover, and it just looked so familiar to me. Going in to read it, I had no idea what it was about. The blurb on the jacket was pretty vague: You go […]

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5/30/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:35 |

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