Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


The Series That Wants to Do It All. With Footnotes

The Ruin of Kings (A Chorus of Dragons, #1) by Jenn Lyons

The Name of All Things (A Chorus of Dragons, #2) by Jenn Lyons

The Memory of Souls (A Chorus of Dragons, #3) by Jenn Lyons

The House of Always (A Chorus of Dragons, #4) by Jenn Lyons

The Discord of Gods (A Chorus of Dragons, #5) by Jenn Lyons

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  Well, this is ambitious of me, but I’m going to try and review an entire five-book series all in one go. I was prompted to do this earlier this week when I saw there had been another update on The Winds of Winter that did not include a hint of a release date. We’ve gone through about ten … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:14 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: , , , , ·

Babies, You Have to Be Kind

God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut

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I feel dumber with each review I write. I loved Kurt Vonnegut’s God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater. It has one of my favorite literary passages of all time: “Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you’ve got … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:27 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: ·

Sometimes you can’t bank a fire when it starts with such a strong spark

A Duke by Default: Reluctant Royals by Alyssa Cole

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A Duke by Default is the second volume in Alyssa Cole's "Reluctant Royals" series.  I read this series out of order by accidentally starting with the third book, A Prince on Paper, then reading the beginning, A Princess in Theory, and now have read the middle book!  Each book in the series follows a … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:25 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: , , , ·

Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness

Three Pianos by Andrew McMahon

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The first concert my fiancee took me to was one for somebody I'd never heard of before: Andrew McMahon. She told me he'd survived leukemia, and they had a Dear Jack Foundation table out front where you could sign up to be a bone marrow donor. I wound up having a good time, but I didn't know how … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:36 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: , , , , ·

Missing some meat on those bones…

She-Hulk #4 by Rainbow Rowell

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Having reached issue #4, I guess I expected a little more from Rainbow Rowell's She-Hulk. We have the narrative through line of Jonathan Hart and Jen Walters trying to figure out what brings him back, sure, but everything else has felt like fluff and filler thus far. Maybe I'm being too harsh, since … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:35 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: , ·

Sumptuous Terror

Through the Woods by Emily Carroll

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Sometimes I start to read a Cannonball review and stop a paragraph in, because I know I want to read the book and I don’t want to spoil anything, so I run off and buy the book, the review half-read. Such was the case for Emily Carroll’s collection of graphic short stories Through the Woods. I … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:26 · Genres: Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: ·


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