Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

This had so much potential…

Commonwealth by Ann Patchett

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I liked Commonwealth but I think I could have loved it. In the past the Cousins and Keatings are brought together one fateful day at a Christening party when Mr Cousins kisses Mrs Keating. After a few years of secret rendezvouses the Keatings and Cousins officially merge into one big, messy unit. This combined family situation begins to dissolve when one of the six children dies in an accident that is slowly revealed to the reader. “He realized then what he had known from the first minute he saw her, from when she leaned out the kitchen door and called for her […]

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8/21/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:87 |

A Miscellaneous selection of books

Goodbye Vitamin, Krik? Krak!, Home Fire by Rachel Khong, Edwidge Danticat, Kamila Shamsie

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Goodbye, Vitamin – Rachel Khong  https://www.amazon.com/Goodbye-Vitamin-Novel-Rachel-Khong/dp/1250109167/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1503250181&sr=8-1&keywords=goodbye+vitamin The story of this novel is a 30 year old woman returns home to care for his father’s debilitation into Alzheimer’s immediately after her engagement falls through. It is written as a series of diary entries and this format often creates a lot of the problems the novel has. For the most part the novel is well-written and interesting, and it’s generally heartfelt, but it’s also pretty flawed in a couple of ways that I think relate to its connection MFA type writing. In terms of plot, there’s almost none. Fine. That’s not always […]

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8/20/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:344 |

I literally just said mysteries are silly

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

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And this mystery is a little silly. It holds up, but it can actually be kind of taxing to read because he prose is so thin and flimsy at times that there’s so little to hold onto. But I was reading this (for the first time, even though I’ve seen the 1974 film and read several of her others) because I was interested in the possibility of teaching this book with a group of special ed 12th graders this year. The class is technically British literature, even though I have been told I don’t have to adhere to that because […]

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8/20/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:341 |

Well I liked this one way better than the first one

One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson

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I read the first book in this series, Case Histories, about a year or so ago after having already read Life After Life. I thought Case Histories was a little throwaway (or tear-away) but really really really liked Life After Life. I wouldn’t have gone out of my way to read this one except that I found the audiobook and even then I was hesitant and kept putting it off. Turns out I really liked it. A lot of the stuff I didn’t like about the first book was gone…the meandering, the fiction that the actually mysteries were that interesting, and then […]

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8/20/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:340 |

Sorry Kell, I’m all about Lila

A Gathering of Shadows by V.E. Schwab

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It’s been a few months since the events at the climax of A Darker Shade of Magic, and Kell is back in Red London. Having saved his ‘brother’ by binding Rhy’s life to his own, Kell is now finding that his adopted ma and pa, the King and Queen of Red London, are loathe to let him out of their sight lest harm come to him, though not for his own sake but that of their heir. And so Rhy comes up with a scheme to let him blow off some steam – entering The Element Games, a spectacular tournament […]

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8/20/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:50 |

Seldom has so much stupidity been written by such a smart man.

Rising Sun by Michael Crichton

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I’ll start this review by briefly describing the story. I’m only doing this to get it out of the way, because I’m not going to talk much about it in the rest of the review. Celebrating the opening of its new headquarters in downtown Los Angeles, the Nakamoto Corporation throws a lavish party filled with businessmen, celebrities, and politicians. During the party, a young woman, Cheryl Austin, is murdered. Police Lt Peter Smith, Japanese liaison with the LAPD, and Cpt. John Connor are given the task of investigating what appears to be a complex conspiracy connecting Washington, DC, and a […]

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8/20/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:58 |

Maybe it’s not that I hate the romance genre, maybe it’s that I have a low tolerance for predictability

One Day by David Nichols

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A brief aside: I don’t normally like book covers that have anything to do with the film adaptation, but the normal cover of this book is so bland and forgettable, I’m using the movie tie-in cover here. It has a more classic look to it. Anyway. Dexter Mayhew is a charming playboy, absolutely gorgeous to behold. And he knows it. Emma Morley is a beautiful and intelligent woman; a little snide and politically conscious. They spend the night of their graduation from university together before beginning a years long friendship that sees them never quite fulfilling the promise of romance […]

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8/19/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:57 |

What if the reason your ex is an ex is stupid?

The One That Got Away by Melissa Pimentel

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It is a truth universally acknowledged that Pride & Prejudice doesn’t update terribly well–it’s so hard to know what to do with Lydia, and marriage does not occupy the same place in society it once did. In The One That Got Away, Melissa Pimentel makes a solid argument that Persuasion might be the Austen work which best survives a contemporary setting. It is perhaps an evergreen notion: the rekindling of a youthful infatuation given up due to peer pressure. Ruby Atlas is thrown into the company of her ex, Ethan Bailey, when her sister marries Ethan’s best friend. Ethan and […]

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8/18/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:23 |

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