Cannonball Read 18

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The Palladium Wars 2 and 3

Ballistic by Marko Kloos

Citadel by Marko Kloos

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Ballistic – This is the second book in the series and I think I had forgotten almost everything about it as I got started reading. It’s only been two years, but still. It didn’t help that it’s an audiobook with one reader, but four distinct narrative threads. So when one chapter ended, if I happened to miss whose it was, it always took me a second to place myself. Not the book’s fault really, but here we are. Marko Kloos is mostly known for two […]

Easy Rawlins

Black Betty by Walter Mosley

A Little Yellow Dog by Walter Mosley

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Black Betty Easy Rawlins is hired to find a woman named Elizabeth ostensibly because her rich employer is looking for her. The woman has been working in the house for this rich woman and the story goes that she is looking for Elizabeth in order to offer to pay her more if she comes back to work. This story of course is fishy. Also fishy is the fact that Rawlins is being approached by not even a third party so much as a fourth or […]

Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?

Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? by James Shapiro

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Who wrote Shakespeare? The answer is of course Shakespeare. James Shapiro details the history of the obsession over Shakespeare authorship. This usually falls into some main threads. The weirdos really think Marlowe did it. Then mystics go with Francis Bacon. And finally zealots go with Edward de Vere. It basically comes down to the fact that generally little is known about the person of Shakespeare, and because many people have take small moments of what we do and drawn wild extrapolations of them, the question […]

Gwendy 2 – 2 Gwendy 2 Featherous – and also Gwendy 3

Gwendy's Magic Feather by Richard Chizmar

Gwendy's Final Task by Stephen King; Richard Chizmar

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Gwendy’s Feather – The Buttonbox universe continues! This time without Stephen King for good and bad, I think. The writing is mostly the same and Richard Chizmar does a pretty good job of mimicking the style as needed. It’s most weird that Richard Chizmar in playing in the Stephen King universe more than anything. There’s some references to Alan Pangborn here of The Dark Half and Needful Things fame or infame, though he’s not a major element in the book. It’s a Castle Rock book […]

Prayers to Broken Stones

Prayers to Broken Stones by Dan Simmons

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A collection of short writing by the science fiction and horror writer Dan Simmons, this book is less a good collection, and more of a catch-all for fictional writing Dan Simmons worked on in a given time. That’s a shame because what’s good is very good and interesting, but there’s some distracting other writing here. Included in this collection are stories that are part of longer works like his novel Carrion Comfort, in which the original 50 page story (chapters 1 and 3 of the […]

Mephisto (No, not that one)

Mephisto by Klaus Mann

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This is a German novel written in 1936 and published in exile. Klaus Mann was the son of Thomas Mann, and he wrote this with a brother in law in mind, an actor who rejected his Communist leanings to cozen up Nazis when they first gained power. When there was an attempt to publish this in West Germany, there was a lengthy court battle because of the accusatory nature of the novel. That always seems weird to me, given people all over the world could […]



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