Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


“It’s not like I grow up to be some great war hero or any all-important savior but thanks to my parents at least I get to grow old. Not everyone does.”

Saga (Volume 9) by Brian K Vaughan

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Back again with another Saga installment! I can't believe I'm almost finally caught up. What a roller coaster this series is. I saw that when this series first came out, it was billed as "Star Wars meets Game of Thrones" and I give two thumbs up to that comparison. The only thing I would clarify … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:5 · Genres: Fantasy, Featured, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Science Fiction · Tags: , , , , , , ·

Well, at least I knew what I was getting into.

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

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I read the prequel to this last year, the unmitigated turd soup called Angles & Demons. I hated the book. The big reveal at the end wasn't much better than the it was all a dream trope that I tacked on to the end of a short story I wrote in the third grade. Even third grade me realized how trite … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:7 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: , ·

“And they all liv’d together in a little crooked house.”

Crooked House by Agatha Christie

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Ooh, I got really into this one. It's been a month since I've finished so I've had some time to think (though I do of course wish I'd written the review right away, but alas) and I think the reason that I loved this one so much is that it's one of the few non-detective mystery novels to get the … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:28 · Genres: Audiobooks, Mystery · Tags: , , , , , , , ·

Wolf Women

Watch the Girls by Jennifer Wolfe

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Whew. This book is something. Don't know if I loved it or hated it but I know I won't forget it! I almost quit it five times and yet I couldn't put it down. I can usually handle bleak, depressing crime fiction but oh man, this one is bleak!* It mostly works until it doesn't...but the ending kind of … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:30 · Genres: Featured, Mystery · Tags: , , , , , ·

Big Finish!

The Toll: Arc of a Scythe Book 3 by Neal Shusterman

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This series is outstanding. This final book hit all the right notes and brought its several storylines together in a coherent, exciting and generally satisfying way. My review of Thunderhead indicated that there was a biblical tone to that book, and that tone is even more obvious in The Toll. But … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:18 · Genres: Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: , , , , , ·

Monica Ali (1)

Brick Lane by Monica Ali

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"An hour and forty-five minutes before Nazneen's life began--began as it would proceed for quite some time, that is to say uncertainly--her mother, Rupban, felt an iron fist squeeze her belly." This is a 2003 novel from the writer Monica Ali, which was nominated and shortlisted for the Booker … [Read more]

's CBR15 Review No:175 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: ·


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