Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

Magic! Paper Dogs!

The Paper Magician by Charlie N. Holmberg

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Reading an incredibly disappointing novel, for me, makes me long for something simple and easy. Luckily, the book I’d chosen from all the ones waiting on my Kindle was perfect for that. Charlie Holmberg’s The Paper Magician is the first in a series of fantasy novels about a young apprentice magician, Ceony Twill. Ceony has just finished her studies at the Tagis Praff School for the Magically Inclined; much to her chagrin she has been assigned an apprenticeship with a paper magician. Ceony had always wanted to work with metal, and once you’re bonded to a material that is the […]

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10/17/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:25 |

It started with death at the dinner party

Silent in the Grave by Deanna Raybourn

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My reading of Deanna Raybourn’s new series led me to the Lady Julia Grey series, her previous historical mysteries featuring an intrepid heroine.  This book begins with death – Julia’s husband Edward suddenly keels over at the start of a dinner party, a seemingly natural tragedy.  Edward had a history of a weak heart, so it was assumed that was the cause of his death.  As it turns out, things are not as they seem and as Julia reaches the end of her year long mourning period she begins to believe he was murdered.  She reaches out to Nicholas Brisbane, […]

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10/17/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:81 |

Weird mix of weird

Across Five Aprils; Little Tales of Misogyny; Black Dahlia and White Rose; Wide Sargasso Sea; Witches! The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem by Irene Hunt; Patricia Highsmith; Joyce Carol Oates; Jean Rhys; Rosalyn Schanzer

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Across Five Aprils: 4/ 5 Stars This is another Civil War book, and another Civil War book taking place in the midwest, that I read as a kid. I grew up in the South and thought about the Civil War a LOT. It happens. Anyway, like Rifles for Watie mentioned in the previous one, this focuses on the western theater of the war but still deals a lot with the news from the East. This becomes a kind of interesting conceit, where our main character is only about 10 at the start of the war and mostly hears about it […]

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10/17/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:416 |

Loving your enemy

An Unnatural Vice by K.J. Charles

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This is book two in the Sins of the City series, set in Victorian England and it carries the tale forward that left the reader hanging at the end of the first book.  I won’t go into too much detail on that one here, as you can read my review on that one if you’re interested.  Nathanial Roy is a former lawyer, now crusading journalist who is helping his friend Clem with some legal battles.  In the course of his work, he meets Justin Lazarus, who is a con artist and so-called seer of London.  Nathanial is prepared to hate […]

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10/17/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:80 |

Aaliyah and Luke Bryan fan fiction

Crazy in Love by Crystal B. Bright

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Shauna Stellar, nee Chantel Evans, reigning R&B princess has hit rock bottom. After a public breakdown on the day she buried her mother, she was dropped by her record label and her accountant and lawyer ran off with her money. All she has left is her manager, the recording studio her mom left her, and the last artist her mom signed to produce: a country music group fronted by Truman Woodley. After ten long years trying to make it in the music business, Truman thought he and the band had made it big with this record contract. When it turns […]

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10/17/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:33 |

More Gorgeous Prose

The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater

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I have decided to take the plunge and read the whole Raven Cycle series since I haven’t done a good submersion into a series in a while. Stiefvater’s beautiful prose does not disappoint in volume 2, The Dream Thieves. I am absolutely in love with this woman’s craft. Her brilliant syntax and poetic descriptions are at times so perfect and poignant, it hurts. It literally makes me think about her book whenever I’m not reading it. I blew through this volume in about 2 days because I didn’t want to stop reading her gorgeous prose. I also love the constant push-pull she […]

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10/17/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:25 |

Alias Grace

Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

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“Alias Grace” is based on true events in mid-19th century Canada. Margaret Atwood takes a lot of artistic license to flesh out the story of Grace Marks, but she acknowledges the embellishments as well as the facts that hold the plot together. Grace is a recent Irish immigrant to the Toronto area and soon begins a life in service (maid) to make money for herself and to avoid being a “burden” to her alcoholic father. After making a good name for herself she finds an offer to be the made for Thomas Kinnear who lives some miles outside the city. […]

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10/17/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:42 |

Americanah

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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I wasn’t sure what to expect from “Americanah.” I’ve heard many good things about Ms. Adichie’s work, but with the book being almost 600 pages I was afraid of committing to it. Am I glad I did. From the opening pages I was hooked into the characters and the plot. This book didn’t feel like I was reading it but rather that I was experiencing it. We begin with present Ifemelu as she prepares to return to Nigeria, her country of origin. She’s spent her college and post-grad years in the U.S. but now decides it’s time to return home. […]

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10/17/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:41 |


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