Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


“Men were too often nervous to learn of things that contradicted their dearest falsehoods.”

The King at the Edge of the World by Arthur Phillips

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You know that feeling you have when an author you love has a new novel out? When you scoop it up and get to reading, because previous novels have dazzled you? When you dig in with excitement and anticipation because you know it's gonna be great? And then you get to the last page and realize it was. … [Read more]

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

Narcos

The Cartel by Don Winslow

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Years ago, I read Robert Andrew Powell's This Love Is Not For Cowards. Powell, a US journalist moved to Juarez, Mexico at the time when it was the most dangerous metropolitan area on earth. He did it to follow the local football (soccer) team, learn about its fan culture and what it meant to be so … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:99 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: , , , , , ·

“It’s a calming thing, to learn there’s a word for something you’ve felt all your life, but didn’t know was shared by anyone else.”

The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows by John Koenig

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That sentence from the introduction of The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows sums up what this book is about. A dictionary of "made-up" words (I know, as if there are words growing naturally in the wild somewhere), it gives voice to the thoughts and feelings that we have every day but didn't know anyone … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:18 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: , , , , , ·

The Sun Also Rises

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

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Hemingway gets a lot of shit, but boy when he wrote his first novel, he wrote a perfect one. That's my recommendation by the way. If you're going to write a novel, write a perfect one. The first time I read this book I didn't really understand why Jake and Brett didn't just get together. As far as a … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:289 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: ·

Which World is Really the Game?

Noble Roots by Drew Hayes

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One of my least favorite fantasy adventure tropes is the tournament arc; often there’s virtually no plot, no character development, just a lot of fights with miraculous and/or unexpected power-ups. About half of Drew Haye’s Noble Roots, books 5 of the Spells, Swords, & Stealth series, goes here. … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:46 · Genres: Fanfiction, Fantasy · Tags: , , , , , ·

Daughters Unto Devils

Daughters Unto Devils by Amy Lukavics

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A historical, Young Adult, horror novels that jumps right in with the good stuff. Well, I am imagining being a young reader and how wild this book starts out would seem to me then. We begin with our narrator Amanda, a 16 year old mountain-dwelling girl, hooking up with the post boy who recently … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:288 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: ·


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