Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

Get yourself a 24-hour lawyer.

Giant Days, Vol. 5 by John Allison

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Okay, first, I love this series. I love the characters. I love the university setting. I love how weird it is. But as a whole, this wasn’t a super great trade paperback. It covers several events that don’t really form a cohesive story arc, even if the individual components were highly amusing. This volume is basically split into three: the end of their first year at university, an incident over their summer break where the girls attend a music festival, and the beginning of their second year. As always, Allison takes actual, everyday things that undergrads have to deal with, […]

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9/18/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:83 |

Miss Marple is in this one from the beginning!

They Do it With Mirrors (Miss Marple, #6) by Agatha Christie

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I think I’ve come to the conclusion that I prefer Poirot books to Marple ones, but this one started off really well! One of the reasons I usually like Poirot better is that he’s usually more involved in the narrative. Miss Marple usually sidles in at the last moment and mostly does her work off page. But here, she was present from page one. Unfortunately, I just lost my motivation about halfway through as the mystery itself didn’t really hold my attention. Miss Marple’s childhood friend Ruth Van Rydock has recently visited her sister Carrie Louise at her Victorian estate, […]

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9/12/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:76 |

Boy meets girl. Boy befriends girl. Boy offers to pretend to be girl’s baby daddy. You know, the usual.

Trouble by Non Pratt

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This wasn’t quite what I was expecting, but I liked it. Hannah is a pregnant fifteen year old. Aaron is the new boy in school, and through a series of circumstances that are actually more plausible than I thought they would be, he ends up volunteering to be the father of her baby, to help guard her reputation and support her while the real father is, er, out of the picture. No average teenage boy would do this, and there is a plausible reason (I think) why Aaron does it. But really, implausibility isn’t really a concern for me most […]

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9/4/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:69 |

Love these girls. Love this series.

Giant Days, Vol. 4 (Giant Days, #4) by John Allison

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“Do you need to go somewhere and repeatedly fail the Bechdel test?” “Yes I do.” After a little bit of a weird slump with Vol. 3, I am back in love with this series. Susan is fresh off her break-up with McGraw (she sees moustaches everywhere!), and tries to fill the hole with various activities and other men, and nothing is working. Esther has vowed not to come back to school after the Easter holidays after messing everything up all year and in general being a hot sexy mess. And Daisy is . . . still Daisy. They are friends, […]

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5/6/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:36 |

Dear Fake Character People: An Open Letter to (most of) the Characters in Mansfield Park

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

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This is the fourth in my series of posts wherein I get weird and write reviews for classic books in the form of letters to the characters. I’m re-reading all of Jane Austen’s books in 2016, and it has so far been lovely, even with this one. May was Mansfield Park month, and I was looking forward to it, as it has been my least favorite Austen since I first read it, and thought that might make for an interesting reading experience. In fact, until now, it’s the only one of her books I hadn’t re-read. (Spoilers for a two hundred year old book to follow. Seriously, all the spoilers. […]

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7/28/2016 | 's CBR8 Review No:93 |

Definitely fantasy genre now

The Dark is Rising (The Dark is Rising, Book 2) by Susan Cooper

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When The Dark is Rising started I was very confused. It was supposed to be the second book in a series, right? But, it starts with completely different characters and in a different village than Over Sea, Under Stone. Only as time goes on, do we see the connection. Will Stanton is the seventh son of a seventh son and just about to turn 11 years old. Up until that point, he is a normal kid who has no idea there is anything special about his eleventh birthday. Where Over Sea, Under Stone was subtle with its magical hints, this […]

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1/4/2016 | 's CBR8 Review No:2 |

A treasure hunt adventure

Over Sea, Under Stone (The Dark is Rising, Book 1) by Susan Cooper

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I don’t know how I hadn’t heard about this series before now. It seems exactly the kind of thing that someone would have recommended to me, or I would have picked up in the library if I had seen it growing up, but I didn’t come across it until browsing my online library in my 40s. Fortunately, that wasn’t too late to enjoy it. Over Sea, Under Stone is the first book in a series of five called The Dark is Rising Sequence. Simon, Jane and Barney Drew are siblings vacationing in Cornwall with their parents and Great-Uncle Merriman (Merry […]

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1/1/2016 | 's CBR8 Review No:1 |

You wanted more Robin? You got it.

Career of Evil (Cormoran Strike, #3) by Robert Galbraith

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Oh, man, I have so many thoughts. And I’m also not entirely sure what I think about some of what happened in this book. On the one hand, I LOVED IT. The case and Robin and Strike’s personal lives dovetailed beautifully. So much of this book was character shiz, which is my favorite kind of shiz. And I’ve been saying for the past two books that I wanted MORE ROBIN and MORE ROBIN is exactly what I got. Robin backstory. Robin frontstory. Robin Robin Robin. And the mystery itself was good and different from the last two. In the first […]

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11/15/2015 | 's CBR7 Review No:171 |

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