Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


What Was This Woman Smoking?

Preternatural by Margaret Wander Bonanno

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As a longtime science fiction reader, I have never read anything like this book. It’s quirky, frequently frustrating, and highly original. Plus, the concept of a science fiction writer writing about a science fiction writer is something you don’t read every day. Through the science fiction writer, Karen, we meet the aliens in the story, blobs that look like jellyfish and can only be seen by her. They talk to her, telling how they are a group mind who have existed on Earth since before […]

I will begrudgingly be grateful that I learned the word ‘pseudopodinously’

Preternatural by Margaret Wander Bonanno

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When an author who likes to do cheeky asides uses a big word and tells the reader “Look it up,” which is more insulting: when you DO know the word, or when you DON’T? I cogitated on that during the whole book, and couldn’t decide. I do know that when the cheeky asides tell you “Now pay attention here,” it is pretty much always insulting. This book was a clever idea, nearly drowned by an author who got too preoccupied with the idea of being […]



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