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The Past Is Not Dead (neither am I)

The Pallbearers Club by Paul Tremblay

April 21, 2022 by Jenna 2 Comments

Not my first read of the year, but it is my first CBR14 review! I’ve got a couple dozen other reads that I’ll get around to reviewing soon. I received this ARC in a Goodreads Giveaway (my first! what a hell of a book for a first ARC!). It has not impacted the content of my review. Art Barbara (not his real name, but it sounds anti-cool, don’t you think?) meets Mercy Brown (also not her real name) in 1988 at the second meeting of […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror Tagged With: Paul Tremblay

Jenna's CBR14 Review No:1 · Genres: Fiction, Horror · Tags: Paul Tremblay ·
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The quiet comprehending of the ending of it all

The Last Conversation by Paul Tremblay

January 11, 2022 by Caesar's Wife 1 Comment

This is a short story which, I gather, is part of a larger collection of six stories in the ‘forward collection’. But it’s worth seeking out as a stand-alone novella. Tremblay has really outdone himself here, and I’m now more determined than ever to read A Head Full of Ghosts (his most well-known work). You awake in a hospital bed. You are blind, alone, and suffering from intense pain. Slowly, you are recuperated. You are taught to think, to talk, to stand, walk, run. Your […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: Paul Tremblay

Caesar's Wife's CBR14 Review No:3 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction · Tags: Paul Tremblay ·
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A whole bunch of horror

A head full of ghosts by Paul Tremblay

The elementals by Michael McDowell

Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix

Later by Stephen King

The Sun Down motel by Simone St. James

The only good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

The hunger by Alma Katsu

Lovecraft country by Matt Ruff

May 9, 2021 by The Book Omnivore 4 Comments

Hi! My name is The Book Omnivore and I am a few months late to the Cannonball Read  party. I hope that’s ok. I’ve participated in CR a couple of times before but I always hesitate to join because some years I read loads of books and other years my brain refuses to read anything more complicated than the instructions for how you make tea, and I never know what kind of year it’s going to be. But having already read 27 books by May […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror Tagged With: alma katsu, Fiction, grady hendrix, horror, Matt Ruff, Michael McDowell, Paul Tremblay, silvia moreno-garcia, Simone St. James, Stephen Graham Jones, Stephen King

The Book Omnivore's CBR13 Review No:9 · Genres: Fiction, Horror · Tags: alma katsu, Fiction, grady hendrix, horror, Matt Ruff, Michael McDowell, Paul Tremblay, silvia moreno-garcia, Simone St. James, Stephen Graham Jones, Stephen King ·
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Amazon’s Forward Collection is half-apocalyptic, half Black Mirror

Emergency Skin by N.K. Jemisin

Ark by Veronica Roth

Rand0m1ze by Andy Weir

You Have Arrived at Your Destination by Amor Towles

The Last Conversation by Paul Tremblay

Summer Frost by Blake Crouch

January 28, 2021 by postcardsandbooks Leave a Comment

So I downloaded the 6 novellas that make up Amazon’s new Forward Collection, which appears to be a collection of sci-fi short stories by known authors (even though I have never anything by most of them). You can read them for free if you’re a Prime customer. I decided I will read them one each morning over a week and review them as I read them, but wait to post all reviews in one post. I will do it this way because these are short, and […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: Amor Towles, Andy Weir, Blake Crouch, n.k. jemisin, Paul Tremblay, Veronica Roth

postcardsandbooks's CBR13 Review No:12 · Genres: Science Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction · Tags: Amor Towles, Andy Weir, Blake Crouch, n.k. jemisin, Paul Tremblay, Veronica Roth ·
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Escape From the Present with… THE FUTURE!

Ark by Veronica Roth

Emergency Skin by N.K. Jemisin

The Last Conversation by Paul Tremblay

Randomize by Andy Weir

You Have Arrived at Your Destination by Amor Towlesl

Summer Frost by Blake Crouch

December 3, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos 4 Comments

And you know what? The future isn’t that bad! Well, it is full of disasters- pandemic, plague, asteroids, climate change, robot uprising -but there are always sparks of humanity ready to push through none the less. Amazon’s Forward collection, a group of five short stories from some big names, throw some big ideas out into the universe and let you, in a way, choose your own adventure! I suppose there is a “correct” order in which to read these, but I didn’t bother. I don’t think […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: AI, amazon original stories, Amor Towlesl, Andy Weir, artificial intelligence, Blake Crouch, david harbour, forward, forward collection, future tech, kindle exclusive, n.k. jemisin, near future, Paul Tremblay, post apocalypse, survival, Veronica Roth

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:131 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction · Tags: AI, amazon original stories, Amor Towlesl, Andy Weir, artificial intelligence, Blake Crouch, david harbour, forward, forward collection, future tech, kindle exclusive, n.k. jemisin, near future, Paul Tremblay, post apocalypse, survival, Veronica Roth ·
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“This must be so difficult for you, Meredith.”

A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay

October 19, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

I read the first chapter of this book when it first came out, and I think probably because of the Stephen King quote at the beginning “It scared the hell out of me” or something like that. I didn’t find it to be all that scary, but I do think the last 25-30 pages are incredibly tense and shocking, so I found that incredibly effective. But for most of the rest of the book, I enjoyed it and found it inventive, but not expressly scary. […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: A Head Full of Ghosts, Paul Tremblay

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:570 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: A Head Full of Ghosts, Paul Tremblay ·
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