Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


“We do bones, motherfucker.”

Gideon the Ninth: The Locked Tomb vol. 1 by Tamsyn Muir

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CBR14 Bingo: "Hot" - Many things are described as hot in the book, corpses, swords.  But most importantly, Gideon is hot! SPOILERS: This is a review of my re-read of Gideon the Ninth and does have some spoilers.  Do not read if you haven't already read Gideon. Spoiler Free … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:40 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: , , , , , , , , ·

Smalls

The Werewolf Principle by Clifford Simak

The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria Rilke

The Miracles of St Cuthbert by Bede of Jarrow

I Served the King of England by Bohumil Hrabal

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The Werewolf Principle - 3/5 Not actually about werewolves, or even one werewolf. We begin this novel with a senator and his daughter coming across a man who has apparently recently returned from a trip to space, for which he was gone for 200 years of Earth time. He has no memory beyond a few … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:555 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: , , , ·

Claudius the God

Claudius the God by Robert Graves

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It took a little while into this second volume of Robert Graves's historical novel about the life and reign of emperor Claudius (Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus), who becomes emperor at the very end of the first volume, much to his chagrin. It's clear at the end when we get some source … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:551 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: ·

The Hunger Angel

The Hunger Angel by Herta Muller

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This is a more recent novel by Herta Mueller who won the Nobel Prize in 2009, soon after this novel came out. The epilogue and author's note mentions that this began as a work in collaboration between Mueller and a poet whose experience overlap the subject of the poet's experiences in a Soviet camp … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:550 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: ·

You have to pick a book or two

Wombat Said Come In by Carmen Agra Deedy

Two White Rabbits by Jairo Buitrago

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Picture book round up time! Both these books can be for any age, however, there are sensitive issues that might not be for everyone. Wombat Said Come In is a multiple layered story. It is about friendship, loss and even about limits. Wombat is sitting down when he hears a knock, a friend is in … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:504 · Genres: Children's Books, Fantasy, Fiction, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ·

First Bingo!!!!

The Book of Night by Holly Black

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I saw The Book of Night sitting in the "New This Month!" display at the library when I went to pick up something else. And I love Holly Black, so I took it out on a whim. The Book of Night follows Charlie, a woman who's spent her whole life making all the wrong decisions. In Charlie's world, … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:16 · Genres: Fantasy, Speculative Fiction · Tags: , , , , , , , ·


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