Cannonball Read 11

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“I like stories where women save themselves.”

The Sleeper and the Spindle by Neil Gaiman

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Gaiman smushes the stories of Snow White and Sleeping Beauty together in this gorgeously illustrated novella.  The setting of the book is sometime after Snow White is awakened from her coffin and at the 100 year mark after Sleeping Beauty’s curse set in. But the stakes are raised when the sleeping sickness that has fallen on the princess and her kingdom is spreading out further and further as the curse lingers.  Several of the dwarves bring this to their queen, and conveniently she is looking for a reason to get out of her upcoming wedding. Snow sets off, armored up, […]

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4/24/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:26 |

Good Omens is a Love Story

Good Omens by Neil Gaimann and Terry Pratchett

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An angel and a demon have been working undercover on Earth for a long time. So long, in fact, that they’ve become friends – of a sort. Together one of them does bad and the other does good – usually according to whether they’re demon or not, but even so; they’ve been on Earth long enough to help each other out. And maybe, just maybe, they both like Earth just a little bit. “People couldn’t become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.” There’s just a tiny problem. Their bosses have decided that […]

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4/23/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:13 |

Consolation Gaiman

Coraline by Neil Gaiman

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I have yet to find a stealth-signed Neil Gaiman book in an airport. Maybe it’s just the places I’ve been lately, like Omaha, Nebraska, or maybe just my luck and not finding the right one (the signed one), especially since there’s currently some massive Gaiman book displays in honor of the new season of American Gods and the forthcoming live-action Good Omens. At the bookshop in the Omaha airport, I made an impulse decision to console myself by getting a copy of Coraline. Coraline is one the one hand classic Gaiman, but on the other not my favorite. I like […]

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4/21/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:24 |

I want to live in this man’s mind…

The View From The Cheap Seats: Selected Non-Fiction by Neil Gaiman

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For me, reading Neil Gaiman is like giving my brain a hug, and that’s equally as true of his non-fiction writing as it is his fiction books. So The View From The Cheap Seats was welcome respite from real life shenanigans, although it is also responsible for my already hefty to-be-read list mushrooming into something that could now blot out the sun. Comprised of a vast array of non-fiction essays, they’re separated into topics to make it easy to navigate for casual readers and ensuring that if certain pieces don’t interest you, there’s still plenty more to choose from. I […]

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4/19/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:10 |

Anansi Boys-An incredible novel

Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman

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I admit it, I am a Neil Gaiman fanboy. So, when I tell you that this is one of the best works Neil has ever written, please believe me. This is Gaiman’s second novel and the growth from American Gods, which takes place in the same universe as Anansi Boys, is remarkable. Anansi begins, as so many tales do, with the tragic death of a main character on stage, performing karaoke, and accidentally exposing the breasts of a young woman as he tumbles off the stage. Despite this tired old beginning, Neil does manage to take the story in innovative […]

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3/27/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:2 |

Good Collection

My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me by Kate Bernheimer

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There is a misnomer on the cover of this book. Some short stories in this volume have not been commissioned for the book. Several of them have appeared in various magazines and collections (some have appeared over a decade ago). This is okay, for this is the first time that they are all collected together and I hadn’t read any of them before. The purpose of this collection in part, according to Bernheimer, is to present fairy tales as an acceptable source of literature, at least to present modern fairy tales as such. The succeds very well at this and […]

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2/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:21 |

The Importance of Dairy

Fortunately, the Milk by Neil Gaiman

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Right away I could tell this was written by Neil Gaiman.  I mean, I think that happens with most Gaiman books, but this one jumped out at me.  I think after listening to Neil read his own books I tend to have his voice in my head when I read his work.  We have a lovely tale about a father who goes out to pick up some milk and the fantastic journey he takes to get home.  I could see this being a story that Neil actually told his kids, and then just wrote it down. (This is the second […]

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2/8/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:8 |

“All Bette’s stories have happy endings. That’s because she knows where to stop. She’s realized the real problem with stories—if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death.”

Preludes & Nocturnes (The Sandman, #1) by Neil Gaiman

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This is one of those books that come heavy with the weight of other people’s expectations. I genuinely had almost no idea what it was about, only that the people who love it LOVE IT, and I had a general idea that it was pretty weird. The only thing I knew for sure was that Death was a character, because Gaiman spun her off into her own comic at one point. I added it to my TBR when it became apparent that I would probably like it if I tried it, and then promptly did not read it for almost ten years. It […]

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1/24/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:13 |


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