Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Too safe?

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu

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I can’t remember why I wanted to read Charles Yu, but I must have had a reason. After finishing up the Old Man’s War books, I had a “not-so-serious-science-fiction” itch to scratch and picked up this one as the best looking of the author’s works at Barnes and Noble. I don’t know if this book just wasn’t my cup of tea in general or if it just didn’t satisfy my craving for John Scalzi’s brand of “take a trope through to its logical conclusion” sci-fi, […]

Hi. I’m Badkittyuno, and I’ve fallen behind again…

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Hi. Sorry. I really thought I was like 10 reviews behind and it turned out to actually be 19. So then I started up this list of reviews…and didn’t post it…and now I’m 26 behind. I would blame my kids/divorce/life, but really — I’d much rather read than write! Also, I’ve been working from home a lot and doing laundry instead of writing reviews (which is what I do when I get bored at the office), so that’s not helping. Anyway, here’s 26 brief reviews […]

Notes on the Practical Limits of Longing

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Her love for him is not something that can be changed— it’s physics, not emotion: It’s the exact weight of radium. It is vast and it is exact. It is tender and finite and inexhaustible. Her love for him is a fact. Her love for him is a brutal fact about the world.   In my ongoing tradition this year of reading lesser known books from my favorite authors, I read Charles Yu’s short story collection Third Class Superhero. I urge everyone to drop everything […]

A Worthy Tribute

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I’m a huge fan of Ray Bradbury, but I actually found this in the process of hunting down a copy of Joe Hill’s By the Silver Water of Lake Champlain, which is included in this collection. Pretty much every story here is a winner, though, and definitely worth reading for Bradbury fans. Here’s a full list of everything included. I particularly enjoyed Lee Martin’s Cat on a Bad Couch, Jacqueline Mitchard’s Two Of A Kind, Charles Yu’s Earth: (A Gift Shop) and Julia Keller’s Hayleigh’s Dad. Overall, though, there aren’t any duds. And I really liked […]



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