Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

Late to the party with this review of a fun book involving mythological bestiality, among other delights.

Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman

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Norse mythology is so weird, guys. I mean, all mythology is weird, it’s just, I can’t get over Loki seducing that horse. This was a really fun audiobook. Gaiman reads it himself, which I always enjoy. I know some people don’t like his cadence, but it works for me. Especially when he gets all cheeky with his words and his tone of voice matches it. And it’s such a fast listen, only clocking in at six and a half hours. I’d imagine the hard copy would be just as much fun, though. Gaiman has a way with words in whatever […]

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6/9/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:40 |

brb, reading this again

Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor

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Laini. LAINI. What are you doing to me? I want to cry, right now, writing this review, thinking about Strange the Dreamer. It’s too much. It’s too beautiful, too peculiar, too visceral, too magical. What is in your imagination? How do you do this? Fantasy is such a stalwart genre for me because of how it truly takes me out of the every day and into a new place, sometimes a completely different place. Good fantasy has that quality of evoking wonder and provoking the wishful thinking that you can actually go there and experience. Laini Taylor’s fantasy is so […]

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5/26/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:41 |

Until Your Old and Broken Bones are Laid into Their Resting Place

American Gods by Neil Gaiman

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When I was about 14 or so, my family was in Wisconsin visiting relatives. We decided to go see Taliesin, but when we got there and my parents found out that tickets were like $50 a person, or maybe they were sold out or something, we had to find something else to do last minute. We ended up at the House on the Rock. Now, if you’ve never been to the House on the Rock, I can’t do it justice with sheer words. I simply cannot. Do a Google image search for it, and that will give you a small […]

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4/19/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:16 |

“But. My hammer,” said Thor.

Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman

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Before I read it, it felt like I’d been waiting for Norse Mythology my entire life. In the sense that I wanted it so badly the minute that I heard that it was coming. So, oops. It’s fine, but it’s not, like, life-alteringly amazingly incredible. I could have waited another minute before reading it. Taken a breath. Read something else. Taken this to the beach. Which isn’t to say it’s not a delight, it’s just that it doesn’t take a thing and change everything you’ve known about it while remaining true to the thing you knew, and make it all […]

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4/9/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:11 |

I read this book, too

Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman

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I’m not even going to pretend that I was well-versed with Norse mythology before reading this. Sure, I have heard of Odin, Thor, and Loki. I’ve also read series that pay major homage, and I’ve listened to this song, I mean, a lot: But I probably could not recite the basic story of 99% of what was in this book, before reading this book. The hierarchy of “Mythology People Have Heard of” has got to be the Greeks and Romans at the top, right? That’s already more than enough for my pea brain, as a casual consumer of such things. […]

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3/22/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:19 |

Always re-read your books, people. You never know what you’ll find if you go digging back in there.

American Gods: The 10th Anniversary Edition by Neil Gaiman

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I first read American Gods when I was twenty-five. It was only my second Neil Gaiman book; I’d read Stardust several months earlier and completely fell in love with it, so it seemed like a no-brainer to give this one a go, since so many people were over the moon about it. What I found was not what I expected. The book is long and meandering. Its characters inhabit the grey areas of the world. They do gross things, immoral things, right alongside utterly mundane and profound things. They murder and cheat and rob. They love and live and die. And it was a subtle […]

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3/8/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:25 |

As if I were no more than a possession for these two creatures to fight over.

The Devourers by Indra Das

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Dear Cannonball Readers: I am so sorry. I voted for The Devourers for this Book Club Read. I thought it looked awesome. I hated it. This review is a two-star review. Because yes, I hated it, but the end was just okay. It finally picked up. Something finally happened. There was a point. The point was aggravating and boring and seriously not worth it, but it was finally there. These shapeshifters are full of some damn nonsense. You’re a superior creature, but your social rules don’t evolve? You live with the souls of your victims inside you, but you don’t […]

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2/19/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:5 |

Thor needs to keep track of his shit.

The Hammer of Thor (Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, #2) by Rick Riordan

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What a silly book. At this point I think I’ve given up expecting to see anything new from Rick Riordan, and yet I’m going to keep reading his books, so I think I shall make a vow to not talk about how repetitive they are, and how he just keeps doing the same thing over and over again with variations. After that sentence I mean. In the future I shall call this The Riordan Factor and link back to this review as an explanation. It will go something like this: Excepting The Riordan Factor, this book was actually pretty great. […]

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12/29/2016 | 's CBR8 Review No:158 |

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