Cannonball Read 11

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“When creative people do their best work, they’re hardly ever in charge, they’re just sort of rolling along with their eyes shut yelling wheee.”

Everything's Eventual by Stephen King

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I have had this beaten-up paperback copy of Everything’s Eventual in my backpack for at least a year, reading a few pages here, a short story there. I was enjoying it, but kept forgetting it was there, usually opting to listen to Audible or read on my kindle when I had some free time. And finally, I went for a walk at lunch today, found a cute table outside a sandwich shop, and sat down to finish it. I’m pretty sure that this was only my second time through this specific collection of stories from Uncle Stevie. Kind of strange […]

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4/23/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:17 |

Good Omens is a Love Story

Good Omens by Neil Gaimann and Terry Pratchett

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An angel and a demon have been working undercover on Earth for a long time. So long, in fact, that they’ve become friends – of a sort. Together one of them does bad and the other does good – usually according to whether they’re demon or not, but even so; they’ve been on Earth long enough to help each other out. And maybe, just maybe, they both like Earth just a little bit. “People couldn’t become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.” There’s just a tiny problem. Their bosses have decided that […]

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4/23/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:13 |

There wasn’t a thesaurus in sight!

Dinosaur Roar! by Michael Paul

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I recently heard that children who like dinosaurs could have a higher IQ. I do not know if that is true, but I do know that anyone that can pronounce Apatosaurus or Parasaurolophus has a grasp on language. However, Dinosaur Roar! by Michael Paul, does not have a pronunciation key. This made it a bit awkward to try and read if you are not paleontologist or a longtime lover of the dinosaur crew. And there is no scientific information, just basic facts to each creature. And yet, it is meant to be a book for the beginning dinosaur fan. As […]

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4/23/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:136 |

Having a gloomy day, try this wordplay

Hypnotize a Tiger: Poems About Just About Everything. by Calef Brown

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The art and text are pure traditional Calef Brown in Hypnotize a Tiger: Poems About Just About Everything. These poems are logical in their abstractness. And even abstract in their logic. They are not for the younger reader as some subjects might be above the 4 to 7 aged crowd. These are more for the 6 to 10 crowd. (Yes, I realize there is overlap there, as some on the younger end of the age might have a more mature, quirky sense of humor). And, of course, adults could get a kick out of Brown’s style. It could be used […]

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4/23/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:135 |

A rollicking well-written adventure

Washington Black by Esi Edugyuan

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From a flight from slavery in an hot air balloon to surviving blizzards in the Arctic to a maritime science exposition in Victorian London, the eponymous main character in Washington Black literally covers a lot of ground.  Born into slavery on a sugar plantation in Barbados, young Washington, nicknamed Wash, is plucked from the fields by the Master’s brother, Titch, in order to assist Titch in his scientific experiments.  After a white plantation guest commits suicide, Titch foresees that Washington is likely to catch the (almost certainly deadly) blame, and in the dark of night he spirits Wash away in […]

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4/23/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:14 |

Easy Breezy Steampunk Mystery-Romance

Timekeeper by Tara Sim

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Timekeeper is a YA novel set in England in the late 1800s, with some historical (mostly, inventions, etc) aspects played with by the author for her version of this world: it has a very steampunk feel to it, and this is only added to by the fact that clocks play a huge role in the story. The clock-towers effectively control and guide the towns around them, and our young protagonist, Danny, is a mechanic of these clocks who can feel the threads of time acutely. He is working towards trying to be a major mechanic at a new clock that […]

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4/22/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:15 |

Guatemalan insanity pepper: The Book

The Hike by Drew Magary

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You guys, Magary has been hiding the good drugs. This book was TRIPPY.  In more ways than one it reminded me of “El viaje misterioso de nuestro Jomer,” The Simpsons episode where Homer hallucinates a coyote instructing him to journey to find his soulmate, but there’s a bit of Twilight Zone twistiness and, yeah, Chuck Palahniuk darkness. I’m impressed a book this weird was conceived, written to book length, edited, and published.  The weirdness was highlighted for me having gone into it blind on the strength of Magary’s name – I don’t care about sports but I read deadspin regularly because […]

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4/22/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:28 |

Gorgeous graphic novel with a dragon, a maiden, a warrior, and kites.

The Last Dragon by Jane Yolen (author), Rebecca Guay (art)

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 The Last Dragon is a beautiful book to hold.  Colors are muted and layered, nothing is a single flat shade.  Lighting has been carefully considered, illuminating and glowing as needed each panel.  The “maiden” is an herbalist’s daughter named, Tansy.  She is described as, “no color at all.  She seemed to blend in with her surroundings” and the artist, Rebecca Guay, did an incredible job showing this.  I also love the way Guay drew the dragon, so powerful and ferocious.  It reminds me of a melding of western and eastern dragon traits. The author, Jane Yolen, weaves a familiar fantasy […]

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4/22/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:13 |


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