Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Antoine Revoy, you are a mean, mean, meeean, man!

Animus by Antoine Revoy

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animus [ an-uh-muh s ]   NOUN strong dislike or enmity; hostile attitude; animosity. purpose; intention; animating spirit. (in the psychology of C. G. Jung) the masculine principle, especially as present in women (contrasted with anima).   How can you sleep at night knowing you crushed my soul? How could you rip my heart out? How dare you create a horrific masterpiece? Was the clue I saw a clue? Animus is a graphic novel I found by accident. First/Second mentioned that they had acquired Revoy’s latest graphic […]

Nonfiction reviews for CBR Bingo

The Trial of Lizzie Borden by Cara Robertson

Masters of Sex: The Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America How to Love by Thomas Maier

The Amnityville Horror by Jay Anson

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So part of my “catch up while husband is overseas” plan involved writing 5 reviews per day but since that took roughly 100 years last night I decided to shoot for a more reasonable three. I am also going to try and find common threads between my reviews so it makes a bit more sense. All of the below reviews are “true stories” but I only needed one to check off the True Story Bingo square- CBR Bingo: True Story The Trial of Lizzie Borden, […]

Reproductive Freedom and the Apocalypse

The Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg Elison

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  Content warning: sexual violence, stillbirth A worldwide plague kills nearly everyone on the planet. A midwife wakes in a San Francisco hotel. (It’s practically “28 Days Later.”) She stocks up on antibiotics—and, critically, birth control—and walks into an extra-hellish hellscape. Since females experienced the highest mortality rate, the rare woman or girl that survives is a treasure. Commodity. Object. The midwife trains herself to be self-sufficient. She carries a gun. However, the key to her survival is her avoidance of other people—that is, men. […]

FLESH EATING ANCIENT SPIDER APOCALYPSE

The Hatching by Ezekiel Boone

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Have you ever wanted to read a story where an overweight, Steve Jobs knockoff gets explosive diarrhea in the jungle and then has his face eaten from the inside by a horde of prehistoric spiders? … No? Then this book probably isn’t for you. In my case, from the very first chapter, I was All. In. It was like a lower-brow version of World War Z. I liked the many viewpoints, the world-wide scale, and the attempts at character development. Along the way, I found […]

Not my wheelhouse, but it could be (Bingo #2)

Carrie by Stephen King

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Cbr11bingo Not my wheelhouse I don’t like being scared. Never have. When I was a kid, I had to leave the room if a commercial for a scary movie or show came on. I never wanted to go to haunted houses at Halloween, and I would avoid trick or treating at houses where it looked like someone was going to try to scare me. A few cannonballs ago, I reviewed Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle, which is a dark story but […]

Ain’t no sunshine (The Collection)

Strange Weather by Joe Hill

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Try and contain your shock, but a book by Joe Hill is dark. I’m used to the horror author writing books that have a macabre bent, but this was less “skeleton and ghost dark” and more “I’m gonna curl up on the couch and remind myself that this is fiction dark.” The collection is four novellas connected loosely by abnormal weather – lightning storms in “Snapshot,” a firestorm in “Loaded,” an unusual cloud in “Aloft” and fulgurite rain in “Rain.” But the darkest part of […]



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