Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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These reviews, which were promoted in CBR social media, on our homepage, and in Pajiba Love, appear below by review publication date, not by date featured.

 

Early Jazz 101

Young Man with a Horn by Dorothy Baker

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A short sharp and brilliant novella written by Dorothy Baker in 1938.  Often called the first jazz novel, it is loosely based off the life of Bix Beiderbecke, a white trumpeter who generally played with black bands, in this era of Jim Crow, and who died young of alcoholism.  Baker nailed the 1920s era, where swing was still just starting to take root, and dance bands were emerging, but then there was jazz, for those who preferred to actually listen to the music. Lady knows […]

The Tapestry of Fate: Supporting women’s rights…and women’s wrongs.

The Tapestry of Fate by Shannon Chakraborty

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Tapestry of Fate picks up shortly after the ending of the Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi, and is deeply related to some of the happenings towards the end of the first book. So, there will be spoilers below for the Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi. Amina has been granted super-human abilities and tasked with finding five Transgressions. Well, four after the Moon of Saba. We get a small glimpse at Amina, Dalila, Tinbu, and Majed’s adventure to collect the second Transgression early on in the book, but […]

We Don’t Have to Accept This

The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want by Dr Emily M. Bender and Dr Alex Hanna

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Rating: 5 Stars In a nutshell: Experts in the field Bender and Hanna explore all the issues with AI – from what falls under the category, to how it impacts real people, and how we can demand better. Best for: I think this should be mandatory reading for anyone who uses ChatGPT to write an email. Or any executive who claims their company should be ‘AI forward’ (whatever the fuck that means). But also, it’s great for folks like me who have a reputation for […]

A Theory of Dinniman Sucess

Operation: Bounce House by Matt Dinniman

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I have read 7 of the 8 currently available Dungeon Crawl Carl books so far, but it took me until Operation: Bounce House to figure out how to describe what I’ve read of Matt Dinniman in terms of genre. Operation Bounce House is not part of the Carl series; it’s a stand-alone, with different cast and different universe, but also some distinct similarities including genre and general tone. The premise is still conventional sci-fi: human colonists of New Sonora are mostly farmers who, with the […]

Other People’s Houses by Clare Mackintosh

Other People's Houses by Clare Mackintosh

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I really loved this installment of the DC Morgan series. Mackintosh was firing on all cylinders. Also the first few pages of the book show the location of the house, families who live there and I was happy as a clam feeling like I was getting a modern Agatha Christie. We also get to see Ffion and Leo fully together in this one and everyone knows. I liked that their relationship is out in the open and it’s a big part of the story (Ffion […]

The Road to Hell

The Long Walk by Stephen King

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Cliff Young, a 61-year old sheep farmer, won the first ever Sydney to Melbourne ultramarathon in 1983. He did it by running slowly but most effectively and by sleeping only for two hours during the first night when his competition slept for six hours. Eventually, he skipped sleeping altogether. He won the race by a landslide and also set a new record. His stamina was forged in the 1930s when he run for days finding and gathering sheep in the Australian wilderness. Effectively, he had […]



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