Cannonball Read 11

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nora Roberts-fied

Year One by Nora Roberts

Of Blood and Bone by Nora Roberts

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CBR11 #2: Year One by Nora Roberts My first Nora Roberts! The two books were a gift from my friend who’s a huge Nora Roberts fan, and she thought Year One could be a good entry point because I’m a real sucker for dystopia fiction. It starts out with a family vacation in Scotland, when a peasant is shot and falls right in the middle of a stone circle, and its blood seeps into the frosted ground. What appears to be a regular hunting expedition turns deadly days later when the shooter is afflicted by an incurable disease that spreads like wildfire […]

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6/30/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:3 |

Why settle for just one apocalypse when you can have two?

Deadline (Newsflesh, No 2) by Mira Grant

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Warning: Spoilers for Feed, the first book in the Newsflesh series are below. Click away now if you haven’t read it. The aftermath of the events of Feed have really done a number on Shaun Mason. Shooting your beloved sister as she turns into a zombie will do that to you. It’ll also have her setting up shop in your head for you to talk aloud to, lending credence to the popular theory that you’ve well and truly lost your marbles. But what Shaun hasn’t lost is the need to avenge Georgia’s death, and while her killer has already taken […]

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6/12/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:19 |

The movie Wes Anderson should have made

Your Robot Dog Will Die by Arin Greenwood

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Apparently this is the year I read all the dead dog books. So . . . sorry for that! TW: Animal cruelty, animal death. In a near future, scientists showcased exactly how terrible humans are by genetically trying to improve on animals. (As if there is anything to improve on in any animal.) Their experiments went extremely wrong, however, when dogs suddenly stop wagging their tales, and suddenly are no longer man’s best friend. As the effects of this tragedy sweep the nation and dogs become dangerous and are being abandoned or worse, it is decided a mass euthanasia is […]

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5/22/2019 |

This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.

Severance by Ling Ma

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This was an interesting story that I appreciated far more than I enjoyed. Candace Chen is a 20-something in middle-management at a Manhattan publishing company, in the specialty Bible division. She is good at her job, but she doesn’t really like much about it. It’s a job, it pays the bills. But she has no passion for it. But Candace, like many of her generation, doesn’t really know what it is that she actually does have passion for. She used to like photography, and had a blog for a while, but she doesn’t think she was all that good at […]

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5/9/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:21 |

Dystopia Now

When She Woke by Hillary Jordan

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This is the ultimate 3 vs. 4 star test for me. In a rare instance of compromise, I decided to sleep on the review, rather than post right away as is my habit. I finished it late last night and didn’t want to stare at the computer before bed. When I went to bed, it was a 4. I woke up (heh), thinking it was a 3. And now, as I sit down, nearly 24 hours after finishing it…I’m giving it a 4. With major reservations. This book reminds me of the longform mea culpa written by Megan Phelps-Roper for The […]

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4/7/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:37 |

Reviewing this makes ME feel like an alien.

Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke

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Without a doubt, I have grown more as a reader since I started doing CBR a few years ago than in my entire 20+ years reading before it. It’s still comforting and thrilling to read books that are exactly the reason I love to read, but going completely outside of my genre is a different kind of experience. Fulfilling. I read Cannonball reviews (along with Pajiba and every other blog or news source I follow) through Feedly, and my only “rules” for myself are that if the review piques my interest, I add it to my reading list. Then I […]

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3/17/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:4 |

things that weren’t yours to lose

Arcadia by Lauren Groff

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I felt the air being knocked out of my chest on more than one occasion while sinking into Arcadia. Lauren Groff’s prose is sparse and beautiful, and there’s no way for me to accurately describe it without further muddying it into oblivion. She tells only what needs to be told; moments are fleeting, endings are organic, and jumps through time are poignant and crushing. I felt the ache of nostalgia for things that I have never experienced. I felt long-gone youthful optimism harden and calcify into flinty reserve and resolve. I felt the warmth of each character’s body as the pushed, […]

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3/14/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:7 |

Missed it byyyyy thatmuch

Sweet Fruit, Sour Land by Rebecca Ley

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I know I’ve mentioned a few (hundred) times that I’m a sucker for the Man Booker Prize, and I’ve gotten a lot of mileage out of those lists for many years. I’ve finally started paying more attention to others, too, particularly the Costa (formerly Whitbread) Awards and the Women’s Prize, and I also found the cheeky Not-the-Booker Prize awarded by The Guardian from a blend of votes by the public and a judging panel. I thought the 2018 winner, Rebecca Ley’s Sweet Fruit, Sour Land, sounded interesting, so I snagged a copy in Melbourne last fall. Climate change has driven […]

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3/3/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:14 |


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