Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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a re-read of a play before a once-in-a-lifetime viewing

Copenhagen by Michael Frayn

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CBR Bingo: Success, because a lot of the back and forth in this is about Heisenberg defending his successes in the German nuclear program versus Bohr’s more success-y success with The Manhattan Project. SO the story here: I’ve been wanting to see this play performed live for, oh, 10-15 years? I saw Michael Frayn’s Noises Off on Broadway and thought it was absolutely hilarious, looked into what else he’d written, and found this. Read the actual script, fell in love, watched the made-for-TV adaptation starring Daniel Craig […]

not my favorite visit to the world of the white rat, but that’s a bit splitting hairs

Daggerbound by T. Kingfisher

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CBR Bingo “left” because the Dervish (Dervish? he sometimes is The Dervish and sometimes just Dervish, it’s hard to tell) has been left behind, without his mercenary party, and will keep being so given the whole immortal being hanging out with human meat Having not re-read Swordheart nor Clocktaur Wars Which is to say, unfortunately this book didn’t quite do it for me, at least not as much as the much-belatedly-read Swordheart did. We meet the second of three (?) enchanted swords in this, the second go-around in […]

a delightful and heartwarming end to a series that never really stops your heart :)

Heartstopper: Volume 6 by Alice Oseman

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CBR Bingo: Middle, because I’m taking the ending of this book to be the start of the middle of Nick and Charlie’s story–six volumes, and now it’s the end of the beginning Kudos to Alice Oseman for landing this tricky plane–a six volume graphic novel about a teenage love story, which by its very nature leads to some cynical raised eyebrows. I’m well on the record being exasperated by novels that feature our leads, Aquamarine Quantia and Xavier Hotstuff, falling in permalovelust at the ripe […]

a pale replacement for my disappointment in the last Death novel from Discworld

Everything was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt by Ben Reeves

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CBR Bingo: And, because I think the use of the “and” in the title of this book is particularly punchy–melodically to the ear, stylistically, as a plot point Well, might as well keep at it reviewing the more morose books in my back catalogue (having just finished Giovanni’s Room. This is a book about Travis Smith, a sort of scruffy looking nondescript 30s something dude who is a real person but also the(?) a(?) personification of death who shows up both as people are dying and […]

there’s no HEA in this m/m romance

Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin

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CBR Bingo: Wheel, mainly for the cyclic nature of David’s relationship with Giovanni (and Hella) post- the idyllic room bit, where he goes around and around about what he wants A short, bittersweet plot about David, an Américain in Paris in the late 50s/early 60s (I think) who is nominally engaged to a modern lady who is currently in Spain trying to figure out if she loves David enough to get married. They’re very open minded, you see, until Hella realizes all she wants is […]

a reshuffle of bingo categories because this was just too elegant

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

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CBR Bingo: Sheep, I cannot believe that I missed this, I have recategorized Strangers: A Memoir as Versus This is one of those novels that’s always been kicking around in my brain box, because of course it has been. I listen to a track from Blade Runner as part of my work background music playlist, which is about 4.5 hours of scifi movie soundtracks, one track per movie (of ~3:50 in length), designed to be soothing and keep me focused during long allnighters (a consequence […]



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