Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

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 |

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015 by Joe Hill & John Joseph Adams

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I’ve been working reading more contemporary Sci Fi/Fantasy and “The Best American” series is a great resource. The 2015 edition was the first year they’ve compiled an anthology for these genres and it was good premiere. At the outset, they explain the complexities of having an anthology that encompasses both Science Fiction and Fantasy; each one has elements of the other. The editors provide a cursory explanation of each genre, however, without being too technical. It was entertaining to try and guess into which some of the pieces would’ve been categorized. Throughout the collection there were several standouts which reminded […]

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6/11/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:18 |

Late to the party with this review of a fun book involving mythological bestiality, among other delights.

Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman

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Norse mythology is so weird, guys. I mean, all mythology is weird, it’s just, I can’t get over Loki seducing that horse. This was a really fun audiobook. Gaiman reads it himself, which I always enjoy. I know some people don’t like his cadence, but it works for me. Especially when he gets all cheeky with his words and his tone of voice matches it. And it’s such a fast listen, only clocking in at six and a half hours. I’d imagine the hard copy would be just as much fun, though. Gaiman has a way with words in whatever […]

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6/9/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:40 |

He walked like no man on earth, I swear he had no name.

Gwendy's Button Box by Stephen King and Richard Chizmar

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As you know by now, I’m a sucker for Uncle Stevie. Anything he writes, I’ll read. Novel, short story, op-ed, tweets, collaborations…I’m there. That’s why I’m a Constant Reader. This isn’t the first collaboration with another author that I’ve read by King. He wrote a few short stories with his son, Joe Hill that were pretty good (In the Tall Grass was legitimately terrifying). His book with Stewart O’Nan, Faithful, is probably my favorite non-fiction book of all time. So, even though I had never heard of co-author Richard Chizmar, it didn’t really matter. I was going to read this […]

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6/8/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:40 |

The Black Mirror vibes are strong with this one

Stories of your life and others by Ted Chiang

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  ”Stories of your life and others” by Ted Chiang is a collection of fictional short stories about such diverse topics as the tower of Babylon, superintelligence, and automata. It also includes the story that the movie ”Arrival” was based on, so add ”aliens” to this list of topics. Considering how wide the thematic spectrum of the book is, it comes as no surprise that the language and tone varies. Some of the stories are so horrifyingly dystopian that they could be easily turned into Black Mirror episodes, while others are bittersweet. They all have one thing in common: Chiang’s […]

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6/1/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:20 |

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