Ok fellow Cannonballers, it’s time to dive into CBR Book Club! After several awesome reviews of Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven, we’re going to have a spoiler-heavy discussion of the book, and Mswas has asked me, faintingviolet, to moderate. We will be starting on Monday March 9th, to give those of you who have added it to your TBR one month to get it read before the discussion. One of the struggles I had with reviewing this book was not wanting to discuss the […]
Dakota Farmer Finds 25,000-year-old Yacht Buried in Backyard
Jack McDevitt’s Ancient Shores (1996) Okay, I’ll be the first to admit that I get into a rut with certain writers. If I see their name on the spine – and I can remember I’ve not read it before, I pick it up. Actually, racing through O’Hare, I’ve been known to pick up a McDevitt or two I know I’ve read before. I hadn’t read this one. I was intrigued by the Octavia Butler cover (black woman, lots of flora) because the organic science fiction […]
A Martian MacGyver for the problem-solving sci-fi fans among us
This is going to be a hard book to top for me this year. I LOVED The Martian! I haven’t read science fiction in many decades, but I’m an old aficionado from my early years, and this book had me panting with excitement and anticipation throughout. Some have compared The Martian to Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, and while I can fully understand the comparison, I much prefer the image of a Martian MacGyver, for those of you who remember the television show from the late eighties. […]
In Which I Question My Sanity
I’m going to say the words that few book lovers ever utter. I completely understand if, from this moment on, no one ever trusts my judgement again. I can’t even trust my judgement anymore. But… *deep breath* The movie was better than the book. I know, I know! Blasphemy! But the fact still remains, the Wachowski siblings and Tykwer were able to pull it off where Mitchell mostly floundered. (Not that the movie was a cinematic masterpiece, but I feel like I “got” what they […]
Three bad guys, no waiting
I read Leviathan Wakes after reading thewheelbarrow’s review last year, loved it, and just finished devouring the sequel. It’s also terrific, if not quiiiite as good as the first one. The alien goo that nearly destroyed everything in the first book is now camped out on Venus, doing mysterious things and scaring the hell out of all the scientists trying to keep tabs on it. When a small experimental attack finally comes, humanity handles it about as well as you’d expect. Rather than band together […]
A complex, gender-neutral protagonist in a quasi-dystopian murder mystery? Sign me up!
I follow Patrick Rothfuss on Goodreads, and I notice that his tastes in books tend to the sci-fi and fantasy, whereas I’m more selective in those genres. Yet some of his high recommendations catch my eye, and John Scalzi’s Lock In was one of them. I was curious by the premise, and it seemed to go along with my reading of dystopian and survival literature. The setting and premise are complex but highly interesting. A virus/pandemic has swept through the United States (of course) and […]
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