Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

Friendship is magic

Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour bookstore by Robin Sloan

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Setting up a mystery is easy, you just present an amount of threads, leaving it to the reader to guess the pattern before, in the end, all the threads are woven neatly together. But this weaving is, of course, the hard part, because the reader has followed all the threads with you and guessed at so many more patterns than the actual book can hold. Mr. penumbra’s 24 hour bookstore was a book with plenty of interesting threads; an old bookstore, mysterious google-stuff, new tech, old stories, mysterious cults, and immortality. Yet the threads were too thin and in the […]

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10/15/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:31 |

Is a Western fantasy set in a Middle Eastern environment an Eastern?

Rebel of the Sands by Alwyn Hamilton

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Amani Al-Hiza is poor orphan, raised by uncaring relatives in a small desert town where most inhabitants work in the local mine. She knows that if she doesn’t collect enough money to get out soon, she’ll end up as third wife to her unpleasant uncle, a fate she would rather die than accept. One night, she disguises herself as a boy and enters a shooting competition at the local watering hole, trying to win enough money to finally leave. She’s an excellent shot, and sure that she will win, until she meets the mysterious Jin and things escalate out of […]

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10/15/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:88 |

A series of lies

The Girl with the Make Believe Husband by Julia Quinn

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This is book two in the Rokesby series, set before the infamous Bridgerton bunch series, of which I’ve read all.  However, I’m not as taken with this series as I’d hoped to be.  The first book was okay, and this one had a lot of problematic plot devices.  To begin with, Cecilia Harcourt makes an impetuous journey from England to America to care for her brother Thomas, a soldier in the army.  He’s gone missing, however, but she feels like it would be an easy task to find him.  Instead, she finds his friend Edward Rokesby – unconscious and needing […]

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10/13/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:79 |

Humans Are Monsters

The Power by Naomi Alderman

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  Public figures like Bill Cosby, Bill Clinton, Harvey Weinstein and our (not my) president make the news for being men who use their positions of power and privilege to abuse women; to demean them, to call them sluts and whores, to make them feel weak. The sad state of things though is this isn’t a privilege reserved for men of wealth and power.  All men can wield this power, if they choose to (in some circumstances).   I think most women can think of a time where a man who wasn’t rich and famous made us feel powerless in some way it […]

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10/12/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:21 |

“Do you believe in love at first sight?”…”I don’t know,” he said. “Do you believe in love before that?”

Attachments by Rainbow Rowell

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Apparently, I’m in the middle of a massive re-reading binge. I didn’t even realize it, but most of the books on the list of “reviews I need to catch up on” are for books that I’ve not only read before, but have also reviewed before. Attachments is one of those books — first reviewed in CBR5, it was a book I loved so much, I was afraid to reread it. What if I didn’t love it as much as I did last time? Wouldn’t that sort of ruin it for me? Never fear! Not only did I still love it, […]

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10/12/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:56 |

Pearls of wisdom

Mademoiselle Chanel by C.W. Gortner

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This is a fictionalized telling of the life of Coco Chanel, and it strives to give a complete picture of the legendary designer.  I admit to knowing next to nothing about her before I read the book, and it was quite fascinating to read how she managed to rise from poverty to become an icon in fashion.   Born Gabrielle Chanel, she and her siblings were split apart after the death of her mother and abandonment of her father.  During her schooling by nuns, she realized her talent for sewing and this led to her first designs of hats that […]

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10/12/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:78 |

Life lesson from Uncle Stevie: You always — always, always, always — fall from the topmost grid of the ceiling that you’re using for a ladder in the hall of the maximum security prison that has gone sliding down the unstable remains of a former coal mountain.

Sleeping Beauties by Stephen King, Owen King

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Sleeping Beauties is a gigantic, door-stopping tome that tells the story of a world without women. What would happen if suddenly all of the world’s women were suddenly asleep, and the men were left to their own devices, without supervision and guidance from the fairer sex? How long until guns are used to make every single decision? As it turns out, less than a week. Uncle Stevie and his son Owen are trying something interesting here, but it mostly didn’t work for me. Here’s what I loved: As usual, the first third of the book is just an introduction to […]

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10/11/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:55 |

This head witch needed more training

The Midnight Witch by Paula Brackston

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Set in high society Edwardian England, The Midnight Witch is the story of a young witch who faces the choice between love and loyalty to her coven… This blurb makes the book sound a lot more fascinating than it really was, in my opinion.  Lady Lilith Radnor, daughter of the Duke of Radnor, is as young and beautiful as one expects the heroine to be; she’s also a witch.  She is engaged to a fabulously handsome young man, who is also a witch.  Her father has trained her since her childhood to take over his position in the Lazarus Coven […]

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10/10/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:77 |


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