Love and Other Words by Christina Lauren
I always keep a running list on my phone of authors and book titles that other Cannonballers have loved, just in case I find myself at a library or a book sale and have some free time on my hands. I recently picked up two books by Christina Lauren, My Favorite Half-Night Stand, and Josh and Hazel’s Guide to Not Dating. I enjoyed both – they were cute and fun and enjoyable. So I figured this book would be more of the same. But. Ugh. […]
A Study in Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas
4.5 stars I keep struggling to summarise the plot in a good way, so I’ll just let the blurb do it: With her inquisitive mind, Charlotte Holmes has never felt comfortable with the demureness expected of the fairer sex in upper class society. But even she never thought that she would become a social pariah, an outcast fending for herself on the mean streets of London. When the city is struck by a trio of unexpected deaths and suspicion falls on her sister and her […]
Screenplay by Syd Field
Save the Cat by Blake Snyder
Tough Love Screenwriting by John Jarrell
Writing Screenplays that Sell by Michael Hauge
The Wall Will Tell You by Hampton Fancher
If current trends hold, the future’s great American novels will be movies or TV series. Film fully exploits sight and sound as well as action and dialogue, and—unlike video games—it requires little time or effort to participate in a complete story. Hollywood would be helpless without the imagination and craft of the not-so-famous people who spin narratives and sparkling dialogue out of thin air. Many screenwriters are self-taught, some graduate from fancy film schools (*cough* USC *cough*), and some are also novelists (see: F. Scott […]
The Consuming Fire: Vol. 2 of The Interdependency duology by John Scalzi
I have long been a Scalzi fan and am always eager for his next book. Fortunately, he is the type of author that is able to churn out books on a regular basis which has fed my appetite for some time now. The Consuming Fire is the sequel to The Collapsing Empire (which I really enjoyed and reviewed last year!), together they are The Interdependency duology. However, I stalled on this book. Scalzi’s books tends to be easy reads that can be quickly ripped […]
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
My romantic expectations hover somewhere between The English Patient and Lust, Caution. (Love is brief and destroys lives. THE END.) Reading The Rosie Project, I found myself loving the dispassionate narrator in spite of myself. Don is bright, witty, and somewhere on the spectrum. Though he has no use for love—he’s busy with his successful career and finds satisfaction in his careful routine—he decides a wife could be a helpful addition to his overall situation. Imagine Mr. Spock going on OKCupid. The author has said […]
Skinwalker by Faith Hunter
3.5 stars Jane Yellowrock is, as far as she’s aware, the very last of her kind. She’s a skinwalker of Cherokee descent and has never encountered anyone with the same powers as her. She makes a living hunting vampires, but finds herself in the unusual position of working for the vampire council in New Orleans, to track down a rogue vampire. Jane has ten days to locate the creature if she wants to get the exclusive bounty, but there are other individuals in the city […]
