Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

Oldies But Goodies

The Weiser Book of The Fantastic and Forgotten by Judika Illes

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The Fantastic and Forgotten, edited by Judika Illes (2016) – Usually when I review anthologies, I summarize individual stories and give an overall judgement, but this anthology is such a unique concept, I must discuss the entire anthology as a whole. First of all, I’d never heard of Weiser Books who published this anthology.  They publish occult, esoteric, speculative, and New Age works.  This collection, however, publishes stories of forgotten authors from the 1800s, mostly English, and includes such surprising (and not forgotten) authors such as Bram Stoker (yes, that Bram Stoker), Oscar Wilde, H.P. Lovecraft, Mrs. Lovecraft (who knew […]

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8/5/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:30 |

“I am afraid for your priorities, son”

Jackalope Wives and other Stories by T. Kingfisher

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Jackalope Wives and Other Stories is another short story collection by T. Kingfisher and I loved it. I’ve read a couple of these stories previously, when they were first published, but I love that they’re all collected in one place. I especially that that because while the collection only contains two completely new stories, most of them were new to me. Kingfisher brings her usual sensibility and love of practical characters and talking animal companions to this collection. If you like her work then this is a collection worth picking up. I also really like the approach that Kinfisher takes […]

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7/21/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:64 |

Short and Sweet

Alien Dimensions #9 by Neil A. Hogan

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Alien Dimensions #9, edited by Neil A. Hogan (2017) – This anthology is short and sweet.  At barely 76 pages, it covers a broad range of clever science fiction short stories.  Whether you’re into sentient forests or the real extraterrestrial reason behind having an orange ape in the White House, this collection might be for you. “Wandering Woods” by Gustavo Bondoni – Intriguing tale of a planet completely overrun by electronic trash and the sole sentient forest that asks for terraforming help before it’s too late.  Fighting arsenic and mercury, the ancient trees are strangely complacent, sure the humans will […]

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7/18/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:25 |

The Best of and the other of Connie Willis

The Best of Connie Willis by Connie Willis

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The Best of Connie Willis The premise of this book, which is a little contrived and arbitrary–an idea that even Connie Willis discusses in the intro–, is these are all the award-winning stories Connie Willis wrote over the years. The issue of course is that these traverse many years, many time periods, many themes, and don’t necessarily have a lot in common. And at their worst, we sometimes get somewhat retreaded material from different parts of her life. A Letter from the Clearys In this story, we have an after the apocalypse story where a young girl slowly revealing information […]

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7/11/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:273 |

Margaret Atwood and a little Annie Proulx

After the Apocalypse by Maureen McHugh

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If you haven’t read China Mountain Zhang you should check it out. That’s not a ringing endorsement per se. I liked it a lot, but it’s strange and uncomfortable, but completely original and something altogether else. Same goes with this book. It delivers on its title. This is a collection of stories that take place after various and diverse kinds of apocalypse that could befall us, from the overreach of technology and medical fields, to zombies, to disease, to economic collapse and so on. In each of these stories, it’s not the actual downfall that gets you so much as the […]

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6/26/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:257 |

it would have been better for him if he’d died. . . .

Jon For Short by Malorie Blackman

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This title is only 80 pages long and can easily be read cover to cover in one sitting. It is aimed at older teens and is a psychological thrill ride wound up in a short story. It is part of a collection of Dyslexia friendly titles produced by Barrington stoke. ( https://www.barringtonstoke.co.uk/ ) What makes a book dyslexia friendly you ask? Well, the typeface, the layout and the colour of the paper stock all make it much much much easier for someone with dyslexia to read. Jon for short is the story of a 14 year old boy recounting a grizzly […]

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6/24/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:22 |

Odd collection of stories from a writer I can’t quite figure out.

What I Didn't See: Stories by Karen Joy Fowler

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So I have only read one of Karen Joy Fowler’s books before: We are Completely Beside Ourselves.  I really liked it. It’s about a family who raises a chimp alongside their other child and its various fallouts. It’s good. But I also know her as the author of The Jane Austen Book Club which could be good, but I am suspicious of any book circulating around Jane Austen and her books because there’s so many of them. And then her other books come with a variety of mixed subjects and reviews: so I can’t figure her out. Anyway, here’s what some of the […]

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6/24/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:252 |

The Best American Non-Required Reading 2015

The Best American Non-Required Reading 2015 by Adam Johnson & 826 National

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“The Best American Non-required Reading” is an anthology of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and graphic novels that is selected by a committee of high school students. As a high school teacher, I was curious to see what high schoolers would select as the best literature. I found their picks interesting and surprising. Wells Tower’s “Who Wants to Shoot an Elephant?” was eye-opening as it was shocking to read about the account of big-game hunting. Tower is open about his bias (anti-elephant hunting) but is objective in his portrayal of the wealthy Americans who do participate in the hunt. He doesn’t villanize […]

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6/11/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:19 |

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