Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


“Who knows upon what soil they fed/ Their hungry thirsty roots?”

Goblin Market by Diane Zahler

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But Lizzie was speechless. She simply held up the hairbrush, clumps of yellow hair dangling from it. Minka screamed, clapping her hands to her head. But it was too late. Much of her hair had separated from her scalp, and it lay in a mound in Lizzie's lap, like a fairy-tale pile of straw that … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:78 · Genres: Children's Books, Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: , , , , , ·

Now you know why it’s called His Dark Materials

The Golden Compass Graphic Novel by Stephane Melchior-Durand

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If you liked the novel, The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman, this graphic novel is a nice companion to "flesh out" parts. If you have not read the book, this might be a way to be introduced to it, but it will color your feelings about the pictureless novel. I did not picture the characters the … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:297 · Genres: Children's Books, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Mystery, Religion, Romance, Speculative Fiction, Suspense, Young Adult · Tags: , , , , , , , ·

An Ode to Cookies in Space, or Why We Fight

Eclipse the Moon by Jessie Mihalik

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I love the humanism of the domestic that Jessie Mihalik brings to her sci-fi romance adventures. Can it be cozy sci-fi if there are shootouts, kidnappings, and chases? Maybe cozy sci-fi is the wrong term, it certainly falls within soft sci-fi.  In addition to the romance at the center of this sci-fi … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:70 · Genres: Romance, Science Fiction · Tags: , , , , ·

I didn’t love it.

The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi

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I love John Scalzi. From Old Man's War to Fuzzy Nation to The Dispatchers. I haven't loved everything he's done (Zoe's Tale and the Interdependency series come to mind), but I generally look forward to everything he's written. I also love kaiju. Or, at least, the idea of kaiju. I was excited to … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:6 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: , , , ·

Ugh, another stinker I had to power through

Ghost Road Blues (Pine Deep #1) by Jonathan Maberry

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After reading the zombie anthology that Jonathan Maberry helped to edit, I wanted to try one of his books.  My library had the first book in his Pine Deep series, so I decided to give it a try. Just woof.  I did NOT like this book.  So many people were just giant assholes and I couldn't get … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:27 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction, Horror · Tags: , ·

“If trying something new was valid, then keeping something old was, too…. Life meant death, always. But by the same token, death meant life.”

Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers

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Becky Chambers continues to keep me in awe of her writing.  Record of a Spaceborn Few is the third book in the "Wayfarer Series".  It tangentially ties into the first book as one of the main characters, Tessa Santoso, is sister to Captain Ashby Santoso, of the spaceship Wayfarer, in A Long Way to a … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:19 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: , , , , , , ·


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