Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


The Elenium & Tamuli: More fantasy tropes than you can imagine

The Diamond Throne by David Eddings

The Ruby Knight by David Eddings

The Sapphire Rose by David Eddings

Domes of Fire by David Eddings

The Shining Ones by David Eddings

The Hidden City by David Eddings

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After the success of the Belgariad and Malloreon the author David Eddings followed it up with another twin series - this time the trilogies known as the Elenium and the Tamuli. These series focused initially on a quasi-medieval European society complete with monarchies, internal squabbles between … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:12 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: ·

Thought provoking stories

How High We Go In The Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu

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This was a really interesting novel told through stories - not nearly as madcap as A Visit From the Goon Squad but a similar idea / form. The establishing story reveals the origin of what will be a super bug, a pandemic with horrific consequences. Each subsequent story picks up on a related aspect … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:124 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: ·

Another Indifferent Science Fiction Collection from the 60s.

The Year's Best S-F: 10th Annual Edition by Edited by Judith Merril

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At this point I'm starting to question my decision to work through these 60s/70s SF/F collections, but I continue on because each of them does have a few notable stories, and I am interested in the history and foundation of the field. I think what I got the most out of this one was seeing famous … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:143 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: , , ·

If you hit me with your cane again, you’re gone

a good myth is hard to kill by MajorGodComplex

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Kaz is a smart man, but not smart enough to reconsider snarking the most powerful man in the world when dragged out of Ketterdam and across the fold to work for him. Kaz isn’t worried. He’s got plot armor. The Darkling showed his hand much too early with all of that ‘together we’ll change the world’ … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:49 · Genres: Fanfiction, Fantasy, Fiction, Romance · Tags: , , , ·

Aimless Dud

Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator by Roald Dahl

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In my review of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I was excited to re-read the sequel, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator by Roald Dahl. I haven’t read the sequel since I was a kid, so I was hoping it was as magical as the first book. It was not. There are basically three sections to the … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:52 · Genres: Young Adult · Tags: ·


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