Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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What if Persephone was a jaded socialite and Hades was a broody cinnamon roll?

Neon Gods by Katee Robert

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CBR13 Bingo: Mythic (while this is pretty much a straight-up contemporary romance/erotica, the mythological influences are very much there throughout the book) This book was granted to me as an ARC through NetGalley in return for an honest review. It’s available now. Persephone Dimitriou is a society darling, living in the lap of luxury in a stylish highrise in the city of Olympus. Her mother is Demeter, head of one of the thirteen ruling houses and while she seems to care for her four daughters, […]

An epic (ha) recommendation

Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips

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Mythic: definitely a twist on [Orpheus / Eurydice] within the pantheon of the Grecian God myths! Hmmm as I periodically think, I wish Goodreads let you give book half star ratings because this definitely positively falls under a 3.5 star rating. I think I wasn’t as into this as I thought I would be given the blurb, and then towards the end I was very into it and pretty shocked to find out that I only had about half an hour left–not because I thought […]

My dream cast for Gods Behaving Badly

Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips

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I picked this book up because I love a mythical retelling, and it was pretty fun. The entire time I was reading this book, I kept trying to think about the casting, because I think it would be a fun movie or miniseries. And because I’m a sucker for polytheistic, supernatural beings being forced to live in the modern world. Gods Behaving Badly finds the Olympian gods trapped in a house in London in the 20th century. They have lost much of their power, and […]

A foundation for something more engaging

Troy by Stephen Fry

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Bingo: Mythic The story of the fall of Troy is baked into Western culture. As I read this book I was reminded of so many other cultural artefacts built on the same foundation. In my head I could hear Sinead O’Connor wailing “there is no other Troy for you to burn”.  I remembered reading The Gate to Women’s Country by Sheri Tepper in my teens, where the women of this future dystopia ritually perform Iphigenia at Ilium each year, a reminder of the price that men’s […]

Inferno – Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle (1975)

Inferno by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournell

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CBR13Bingo – Mythic Like Dante’s Inferno, this book is more of a time capsule than a truly interesting reading experience. Unless I completely missed it, and I might have, it’s not as thickly layered with criticism and allusion to much more obscure and more “minor” sinners the way Dante’s is, and instead tries to hit the big bads. Instead of Virgil, his guide is Mussolini, hinting at the more fallen nature of classicism in the 20th century. If Virgil was the cultural historian of Rome/Italy […]



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