Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

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 |

Stepford Town, but not as clever.

Wayward by Blake Crouch

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I recently got off work a bit early (one of the many down sides of being a Fry Minion, you get sent home because of “labor costs.”) and having nothing to do but surf my phone, downloaded a reader (how did I live without one?) and started perusing my to-be-read pile, which is quite large.  Wayward was one of the first books in the stack, (it was ahead of its prequel, even, which I have not read.)  I’m used to starting series in the middle – I actually do it as something of a litmus test for new writers I’m […]

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6/24/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:8 |

The night will always win

Authority by Jeff VanderMeer

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Authority is the second book in the Southern Reach trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer. After the strange, horrifying events that took place in Area X during the twelfth expedition there, John ”Control” Rodriguez is sent to Southern Reach to get some answers about what really happened. Unfortunately, he finds that people are not so obliging when it comes to providing them, and nothing is as it seems. It is much, much worse. In what feels like a nightmare, he tries to find out the truth about Area X while navigating around his own demons. It must have taken me twice as […]

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

[Now with more dogs!] An Extinction Cycle short to hold us (me) over until Book 7 is released!

Extinction Lost: A Team Ghost Short Story (Kindle Single) by Nicholas Sansbury Smith

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This is a short story to be read after Book six.  Since I just finished book six, Amazon recommended this to me.  I was deep in Extinction town at this point, so I downloaded it!  It’s only five chapters and about eighty pages long, so it was a quick read. Don’t worry, it includes my favorite character (Apollo).  Although he doesn’t get much to do, he does comfort Fitz, and the other soldiers.  He comforted some kids that they rescued in Book  six too.  Basically everything you do (including fighting insanely weird / scary / disgusting / man-eating monsters) is […]

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6/23/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:33 |

Some Will Not Sleep – like me!

Some Will Not Sleep: Selected Horrors by Adam Nevill

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From the author, on the title: The title of the collection was inspired by the First Epistle of Corinthians (15:5), written by Paul the Apostle: “We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed”. As with much of the bible, there are multiple interpretations of the meaning in this statement. But there are several interpretations of the title of this book too. Some within it do not sleep, some who read it may not sleep, and he who wrote it often doesn’t sleep. So I found Adam Nevill (as a writer, not the actual person!) by randomly walking […]

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6/20/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:31 |

That Night the bad thing happened

That Night by Chevy Stevens

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So my sister recommended this book to me.  Most of my friends and family know that I like to read, so I get many recommendations.  I just have a hard time remembering who recommended what book to me since I’m usually reading four books at a time.  Anyway, I remember my sister told me to read this one because she saw it on my counter and said “oh, you’re reading that book I recommended to you”.  Stunning intellect I’ve got 🙂 Anyway, for some reason it’s taken me two months to read this book.  It’s totally not because of the […]

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6/12/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:30 |

A great (imo) twist that I did not see coming

A Criminal Defense by William L. Myers Jr.

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Ok guys.  I consider myself to be pretty intelligent.  Like I totally know words, and even how to use them!  I can name all of the James Bond movies, and who played Bond in each of them.  Additionally, I’m a great Googler.  Now that I’ve laid out my case (ooh it’s a legal book – unintentional pun!) for my unparalleled wit, I want to say that I did not see the twist in this story coming.  And it wasn’t one of those out of left field twists for the sake of being twisty.  Once it happened (after I closed my […]

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6/12/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:29 |

Twin Peaksy Thrilling Suspense!

Pines by Blake Crouch

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“There was darkness everywhere humans gathered. The way of the world.”  This throwaway line in the first book of Blake Crouch’s Wayward Pines trilogy could also serve as the series’ thesis: No matter where people commune, no matter their intentions or desires, enmity lurks. It’s just how we are as a species. Pines explores this concept in a dream-like setting that will be familiar to anyone who has seen more than two minutes of Twin Peaks. In fact, Crouch has been very forward about Twin Peaks‘ influence on his own book trilogy: In the end matter of the book, he thanks his parents for letting him […]

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6/5/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:17 |

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