Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

Cause we’re going to the chapel and we’re gonna get married…

The Bride Quartet by Nora Roberts

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I’ve read the Bride Quartet before, but sometimes, you just need a little Nora Roberts escapism. And I had forgotten about this series until that we were talking about that stupid New York Times Review of Books piece, and so I hopped on to the library website, and suddenly, I was back at Vows with Parker, Laurel, Emma, and Mac, dreaming of fairy tale weddings where every bride has a completely unlimited budget and nobody has diabetes from eating too much wedding cake. I swear, if I worked there, I’d be drunk on champagne and weigh a thousand pounds from […]

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10/16/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:17 |

Finally getting through a few story collections I have been picking at and one brand new one.

American Gothic Tales; American Supernatural Tales; Her Body and Other Parties; Honeydew by Joyce Carol Oates; ST Joshi; Carmen Maria Machado; Edith Pearlman

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American Gothic Tales – Ed. Joyce Carol Oates 5/5 Stars Joyce Carol Oates knows her stuff. Her introduction to this collection her focus on the Gothic as the selection process makes this an incredibly satisfying collection because it’s not all one type of story. So while on the one had you do in fact get a bunch of ghost stories, you also get stories that are eerie or disturbing or full of murder, and you get stories that are off-putting but not directly scary stories, and sometimes those are just better. I don’t have a complaint regarding this collection except […]

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10/15/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:408 |

Friendship is magic

Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour bookstore by Robin Sloan

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Setting up a mystery is easy, you just present an amount of threads, leaving it to the reader to guess the pattern before, in the end, all the threads are woven neatly together. But this weaving is, of course, the hard part, because the reader has followed all the threads with you and guessed at so many more patterns than the actual book can hold. Mr. penumbra’s 24 hour bookstore was a book with plenty of interesting threads; an old bookstore, mysterious google-stuff, new tech, old stories, mysterious cults, and immortality. Yet the threads were too thin and in the […]

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10/15/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:31 |

Humans Are Monsters

The Power by Naomi Alderman

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  Public figures like Bill Cosby, Bill Clinton, Harvey Weinstein and our (not my) president make the news for being men who use their positions of power and privilege to abuse women; to demean them, to call them sluts and whores, to make them feel weak. The sad state of things though is this isn’t a privilege reserved for men of wealth and power.  All men can wield this power, if they choose to (in some circumstances).   I think most women can think of a time where a man who wasn’t rich and famous made us feel powerless in some way it […]

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10/12/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:21 |

Everything That I Never Told You For No Reason Other Than to be Super Frustrating

Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

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I am sure that Celeste Ng is a nice person, and I am glad that she has found success as an author, but I did not like this book.  In fact, talking about this book makes me downright angry. If I had to describe in one word my thoughts about this book (which I will do next week at my local library book club, because that’s how we roll) I would say “tiresome.” I would also cheat and add two more words “emotionally manipulative.” I lost count the number of times I rolled my eyes listening to the audiobook.  I […]

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10/9/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:28 |

In which your hero is disappointed about his experiences with the Novel Book by Boz

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

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This post is mostly punctuated by my disappointment with this novel. I should start by telling you two things about Young Vel Veeter. Oliver! is one of my favorite movies of all time. It was one of those movies that my family loved and we watched when I was young and impressionable. It was a big hit when it was out, but it felt like one of those things that were HUGE when I saw it based on how much I loved it and watching it as a family and how that legitimates a movie. Just watch this! Great Expectations […]

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10/5/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:398 |

a·sy·lum (noun): shelter or protection from danger.

Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals by Christopher Payne

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This book is probably not what you’re expecting. It’s mostly photos, and it’s about closed “insane asylums.” Are there spooky photos of sweeping, ruined staircases? Yep. Rooms piled high with abandoned, old-fashioned medical equipment? You bet. Peeling paint? Pages of it. Overgrown grounds? Yes. That is what we’ve come to expect (or at least what I have come to expect) from books about defunct mental institutions, and this one technically delivers that. The difference is the entire tone. In the 10 or 15 dense pages of background in the beginning of the book, Payne reminds us of the definition of […]

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9/30/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:25 |

Not Your Sunday School Angel

Raphael by R.A. MacAvoy

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Raphael by R.A. MacAvoy (1984) – Satan, disgusted at being cast out of heaven and forced to dwell on the lower planes among humans, blames his brother Raphael.  He has a plan to bring him to ruin by using a young lute-player and friend of Raphael’s to force the angel to lower his heavenly defenses. Saara, a powerful witch watching over Gaspare, holds the Liar to blame for killing Gaspare’s teacher and her lover, and attacks when Satan shows up in her lover’s form.  She tears into Satan in an exciting air battle but is defeated and ends up bait […]

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9/28/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:34 |


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