Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

Conflicted. Still, till death.

Rat Queens Volume 3: Demons by Kurtis J. Wiebe and Tess Fowler and Bonvillain

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I love the rat queens. The first book was amazing, fresh and funny. The second book was fast paced and hilarious. Before I read the third volume I went back and re-read the second one. That when I realized it was like a whole new book. I couldn’t remember anything about it at all. Apparently this series quality is deteriorating. And fast. It’s been a week since I read the third one. And I can’t really tell you what it’s about.  There is a bunch of flashing back and forth, and a weird plot about a university take over that […]

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6/5/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:14 |

It wore out its “welcome” almost immediately.

The Book of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks by Bethany Keeley

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Ugh. There truly are not 250 words to say about this book. It came out in 2010, when these blog/website collections of things like passive aggressive notes or angry looking zoo animals or whatever were everywhere, and they kept getting book deals. I went through a period when I thought they were hilarious. I added a few to my Goodreads to-read list. I have a system for randomizing my next book, and when I come across one of these old “should’ve just been a website” books, I usually just remove them. (I’m not the only one whose TBR list goes […]

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6/4/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:14 |

Ask a Manager: The Book

Company by Max Barry

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I found this book via recommendation in the comments of the “Ask a manager” advice blog run by Alison Green, and as soon as I got a few pages in it was pretty obvious why. This book is essentially that website in novel form. The plot is essentially Ender’s Game by way of Office Space; a corporate drone realizes that all the bureaucratic frustrations in his job have been artificially and intentionally inflicted on him, but the tone is solidly comedic. It’s an amusing if slight book. Anyone who has worked in a cube farm will relate to the descriptions […]

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6/4/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:21 |

Holy shitsnacks. So good.

We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby

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Best for: Anyone who enjoys a great collection of essays. In a nutshell: Samantha Irby shares stories from her life that are at times so funny you’ll stop someone on the street to read a passage just so they can share in your joy. Line that sticks with me: “No one ever tells attractive children how much they suck, and then the rest of us get stuck with insufferable, narcissistic adults who can barely tie their shoes because someone else is busy either doing it for them or congratulating them on their effort.” Why I chose it: The cover. Seriously, […]

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6/3/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:41 |

Am I out of breath from laughing or running?

How to Lose a Marathon: A Starter's Guide to Finishing in 26.2 Chapters by Joel Cohen

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It is a truth universally acknowledged that nothing good can come from reading. Let us observe Joel Cohen. Cohen, a writer for The Simpsons and noted couch potato, found himself under the spell of Christopher McDougall’s Born to Run (reviewed by Halbs) and decided to take up running. When running didn’t kill him, he decided to run a marathon. See where reading leads you, dear reader? But it seems the damage is done for you and I, and if one must read, I can wholeheartedly recommend this delightful book to anyone who is beginning to run or thinking about taking […]

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6/2/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:21 |

Not another thing, please

And another thing... by Eoin Colfer

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I forget where I read it, only that it is not my own observation, but someone put my most frequent problem with fantasy and sci-fi best: the more made up words it contains, the less likely I am to enjoy the book. This is a fairly short book that is long on nonsense. My eyes just glazed over half the text for a lack of intelligible prose to grab on to. A continuation of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series written by Douglas Adams, it took me twice as long to read its 275 pages than an average book […]

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5/29/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:20 |

A Twisted Trip Down the Yellow Brick Road

The "Wonderful" Wizard of Futhermucking Oz by Matt Youngmark

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I should start this review by saying that I am a huge Oz nerd.  One of my favorite books when I was a kid was the Wizard of Oz and I went on to read most of the sequels.  I have seen the movie so many times because I was born in the 70s and it was always on TV at least once a year.  Plus I’ve seen the Wiz, read Wicked, and probably think about how awesome life would be in Oz.  But since I don’t live in tornado-country, it probably isn’t going to happen for me! Anyway, I […]

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5/28/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:15 |

“Motherhood is hard. And you young moms put more pressure on yourselves than we ever did with your crafts and activities. Do you know what we called crafts back in the day? Chores.”

Confessions of a Domestic Failure by Bunmi Laditan

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This is not a great piece of literature. Our grandchildren won’t be studying it in their Classic Lit classes. It is often silly and ridiculous and predictable and mostly eye-rollingly way beyond reality. And I enjoyed the hell out of it. If you aren’t familiar with Bunmi Laditan, she’s a “mommy blogger” and I follow her on Facebook. She makes me laugh because her house is a mess, she has laundry everywhere, her kids complain about what they eat, and she never seems to find time to take a shower. She’ll post a picture of legos on the carpet and […]

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5/24/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:34 |

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