Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


I don’t know how a novel with a mechanical octopus could go so wrong

The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley

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CBR 14 BINGO: Time, because there is a watch on the cover, and a watch in the title, and it deals with the way a person's possible futures can shift through time Note: I've included spoilers to explain what it was that I didn't like about this novel. The Watchmaker of Filigree Street has all … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:26 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: , , , , ·

Murder near the Nile

DIsappearance of a Scribe by Dana Stabenow

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Bingo 4: New Before I saw Disappearance of a Scribe in the library, I had heard of neither The Eye of Isis series nor its author Dana Stabenow. This is both a new to me series and author; it turns out this is actually book 2 of the series, but it seems pretty stand alone as well. What we’ve got … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:56 · Genres: History, Mystery · Tags: , , , , , , , , , ·

“She’s not a Pisces!” says my fiancee

The Pisces by Melissa Broder

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Where to begin? I guess I'll simply come out and say it: this is, without any doubt in my mind, one of the worst books I have ever read. We're talking to the point that even one star is too gracious, which is why I have decided to leave this review as "unrated." In other words, I give this book … [Read more]

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

Times are changing and not for the better

Shorefall by Robert Jackson Bennett

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CBR Bingo 3: Time Shorefall is the middle part of a trilogy and you can definitely tell; everything goes from bad to worse for nearly everyone, good and bad. The time element actually has several applications here: first, there’s a race against time as the good guys Sancia, Gregor, Orso, and … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:55 · Genres: Fantasy, Speculative Fiction · Tags: , , , , , , ·

Adaptation in a time of Revolution

A gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

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This was my IRL book club’s choice for our July meeting.  At some point in June, the book was bought, but it was not on my Kindle.  I had not read it until yesterday when i realised i had a week to do so, and apparently it is long. I finished it in an afternoon. It also fits into the CBR bingo space … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:4 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: , , ·

“This – not any particular piece of Vietnamese culture – is my inheritance: the inexplicable need and extraordinary ability to run when the shit hits the fan. My refugee reflex.”

The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui

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On 2022’s Read Harder Challenge Task 6 is to read a non-fiction YA comic. Each year when the Read Harder tasks are unveiled, I go through my over 600 book deep to read list on Goodreads looking for books to fulfill each task. I knew this one would be difficult, there just isn’t much in the way of … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:46 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Non-Fiction · Tags: , , , , , , , ·


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