Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

Lizzie Borden took an axe…

See What I Have Done by Sarah Schmidt

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“Lizzie Borden took an axe And gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done She gave her father forty-one.” Although I love history and true crime, the above summed up all I knew about Lizzie Borden before reading this book. See What I Have Done attempts to put some flesh on the story, by imagining what may have happened in the Borden household up to and around the killings. The Borden household is a pretty dysfunctional one, much to the dismay of their maid, Bridget. Mr Borden is controlling and abusive, Mrs Borden highly strung and […]

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8/11/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:47 |

A different sort of fantasy – I wanted to like it more than I did

The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo

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The former Chinese colony of Malaya (current day Malaysia) is now under British rule, but the Chinese population there still try their best to stick to their ancient customs. Li Lan’s family was once wealthy, but after her mother died from chickenpox, her father tried to cover his grief by taking opium and now they are nearly bankrupt, with very few promising marriage prospects for Li Lan. One day, however, her father claims that the wealthy and influential Lim family have offered her a ghost marriage. The son and heir of the family died last year, and they want Li […]

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8/5/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:70 |

“Civilization is the way one’s own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.”

Wild Seed by Octavia Butler

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How to begin? I have wanted to read books by Octavia Butler for years and somehow never picked one up until now. Wild Seed wasn’t’ an easy read, although the language is beautiful, the characters are compelling and change over time (in many ways!), and the plot is complex and interesting. The story takes place over several hundred years and the characters mostly live day-to-day having children, falling sick, getting married, eating food – with powerful ancient beings living day-to-day next to more “ordinary” psychic humans. Anyanwu has lived for hundreds of years near her village in Africa when she […]

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8/4/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:5 |

You’re in a cult, call your dad

The Girls by Emma Cline

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Evie Boyd is the 14 year old daughter of separated and uninterested parents, whose imagination is caught one day by the sight of three girls – carefree and unselfconsciously different to everyone that surrounds her – walking through her boring, suburban life and, through a chance encounter, is slowly drawn onto the periphery of life at The Ranch, with its supposedly freewheeling lifestyle and charismatic leader, Russell. Drawn especially to Suzanne, one of The Girls that surrounds Russell, Evie watches from the sidelines as things start to turn sour, and is left wondering if she could have been one of […]

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7/30/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:46 |

My Sister Hated It

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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My sister hated The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo.  I didn’t hate it, but I didn’t love it either.  I think I wanted more, or, maybe, I just wanted it to be better. It glosses over a lot of Evelyn’s relationships and especially with the relationship that Evelyn claimed was the most important. I also had the same problem with it that I had with All the Stars in the Heavens in that, reading this book from the mindset of someone not living in those times, I couldn’t really relate.  Like that book, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo takes […]

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7/24/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:26 |

On The Backbone of the World, Beneath the Large Sky, You Will Find Your Name

Fools Crow by James Welch

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I don’t know why I bring books to my parent’s house, I never lack for reading material when I go visit. My dad handed me Fools Crow this past trip and told me I should read it, so like any book lover I immediately started reading it. It is very good. It’s not an easy book, and I’m sure there are a lot of things that a more close reading could tease out it, but I really enjoyed it. The book is one that I suggest you take your time with, it’s dense reading and I think if you blow […]

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7/13/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:56 |

To live for or to die for? That is the question.

The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish

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The Weight of Ink is a fascinating work of historical fiction set in London of the 17th century and 2000-2001. It is brimming with compelling characters and interwoven plots related to scholarship, feminism, academia, anti-semitism, love, guilt and atonement. Throughout the novel, across time, the question that torments our main characters has to do with how one lives one’s life and supports one’s beliefs: is it better to die for what you believe or to live at all costs? And what do you do if the person you love does not see it as you do? Can these seemingly opposing […]

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7/6/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:29 |

Little House on the Prairie meets the Oregon trail

Walk on Earth a Stranger by Rae Carson

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3.5 stars Leah “Lee” Westfall lives on a small farm in Georgia, trying to make ends meet with her parents. The only reason they’re really managing to survive at all, is Lee’s unusual ability, she can sense gold. It calls to her and is the reason her father is known in town as “Lucky”. No one but her parents know about her gift, or so Lee believed. Then she comes home from town one day to discover both of her parents shot (her mother is still just barely alive, and warns Leah to be careful with her last breaths) and […]

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7/5/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:64 |

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