Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Atlantic Pity

Mafia Prince by Phil Leonetti

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To continue the Mafia kick I've been on lately, I checked out the Mafia subreddit for book recommendations. To a person, the guys on that site thought Mafia Prince, a book I had never heard of, was one of the best, if not THE best read on La Cosa Nostra in the United States. I thought I had heard … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:82 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: , , , , , ·

First contact, near-past historical science fiction.

Axiom's End (Noumena, #1) by Lindsay Ellis

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30 Books in 30 Days, Vol. 2 Book 1/30 I don't even really know what I want to say about this one! It wasn't what I was expecting, even though I didn't think I was going in expecting anything. Figure that one out. All I knew was that it was a First Contact story, and I liked the cover. I think I … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:69 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: , , , , , , , , , ·

“But a novel always ends, the lies come to the surface, and the deaths are explained. Maybe one of the bad characters gets away with something—that’s fashionable right now—but you are still left with a sense that things are balanced, that dark things come to light, and that the bad person will, at least, most likely be miserable.”

The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St. James

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This book lit my brain up like a Christmas tree. Nobody knows why certain books hit certain people like they do. That's part of the magic of art, and of reading. But it worked for me in individual pieces, and it worked as a whole. During parts of it, I could practically hear my synapses yelling far … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:68 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: , , , , , , , ·

Bella and Edward are kaiju now <3

The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi

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This is objectively a four star book, but I'm giving it five stars, because I can. This book was just super fun to read and it was exactly what I needed and wanted. I will be reading it again whenever I need to feel nerdy joy and my affection for humanity needs a boost. The title of this book … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:67 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Science Fiction · Tags: , , , , , , , , ·

“We knew it was coming, but we behaved inconsistently.”

Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

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Reading Emily St. John Mandel is like falling asleep to the sound of rain: The words wash over you and a steady drumbeat of beauty lulls you into something like perfect contentment. Just reading the loveliness of her sentences would be enough, but then she continues to dazzle by leading your … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:17 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: , , , , , ·

Couldn’t clear the hurdle of suspending my disbelief on this one.

The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells

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One of the hazards inherent in reading older science fiction (especially sff published before the turn of the century!) is that the science just wasn't there at the time it was written, and in some unfortunate cases like this one (where we now understand a hell of a lot more about biology and … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:66 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: , , , , , , ·


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