Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


“Sure, why not take your mortally wounded lover and shove her into an ancient machine of uncertain effectiveness? What could go wrong?”

Blood of the Chosen: Burningblade & Silvereye Book Two by Django Wexler

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Wexler continues writing excellent sci-fantasy.  I love the melding of energy swords and healing magics.  A highly, technically advanced civilization that has fallen.  Magic is held in the hands of a few, tech is tightly controlled and scrounged from remnants of the previous age.  Life is very … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:15 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: , , , , , ·

‘Elizabeth X. I bet you have no other Xs in your file.’

The Secret of Elizabeth (1978) by Vera Caspary

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The Secret of Elizabeth is poised between Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White (1859) and Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl (2012). Like The Woman in White, whose author it specifically invokes, it's told in fragments--diaries, letters, retrospective musings--and there's a dash of Victorian melodrama to the … [Read more]

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

Socio-Emotional Skills FTW

Garrett Bear: Learning From Failure by K Tang

Ava's Triumph by Mary E Miller & Linda Woo

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I've talked before about the kind of work picture books do - Kids learn everything from the alphabet to the existence of other galaxies from the books we read to them as young children. They're essential tools for helping kids to have names for, & understanding of, everything inside & … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:10 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction · Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , ·

Strong writing as expected but I might have enjoyed it more 38 years ago

Shallows by Tim Winton

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Continuing with my project to read all of Tim Winton's novels this year, I have just finished Shallows, first published in 1984. As usual for his works, the location and geography feature strongly and I was happily thrown into an immediate sense of place along the south coast of Western Australia. … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:12 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: ·

Management Matters

Becoming a Better Boss by Julian Birkinshaw

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What makes a good boss? What separates the worst managers from the best? How can you keep your team happy and engaged, even as they and the work continues to grow and change? How can you get the leadership balance right between overlord and buddy? These are the questions that plague me. It's no … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:10 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: , ·

Battle of the Network Stars

The Late Shift: Letterman, Leno, and the Network Battle for the Night by Bill Carter

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The other day James Corden announced he would be leaving his CBS late night show in a year's time. Online the news was met with a lot of jokes and rehashing of Corden's supposed personality flaws but it wasn't met with a lot of interest or speculation. And while there would be a bit more hoopla if … [Read more]

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


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