Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

This book, I need y’all to read it so I can talk about it with someone!

Too Like the Lightning (Terra Ignota, #1) by Ada Palmer

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This might be the weirdest book I’ve ever read. Well, the weirdest book I’ve read that I actually ended up enjoying. I might have to think a while before officially giving it that award. My instinct is to put this review away and not think about it for weeks. I just want to sit with the story, let it brew and fester in my mind a little bit. But I know if I do that, I will forget everything and end up floundering around when it actually comes time to write. I might be more eloquent about the book’s larger […]

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9/12/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:77 |

A genre made just for me, I think.

Pope Awesome and Other Stories by Cari Donaldson

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Two years ago, I converted to Catholicism. I was raised Lutheran, identified as kinda Lutheran-by-default for most of my life, dabbled in Unitarianism, and settled into an indifferent agnosticism that seems pretty common in my generation – a kind of “how am I supposed to know if God exists, but I can vouch for the fact that a whole lot of Christians are real assholes” thing. Then I got engaged to a lapsed Catholic, and we both started having some God-related restlessness and feeling some pulls to organized religion. For me, it was tied to the idea of maturing and […]

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8/30/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:21 |

I will not submit.

Submission by Michel Houellebecq

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I started writing this review about the academic epiphany I had while reading this book: the character mentions many writers, thinkers, philosophers, in quotations that made no sense to me. I felt incapable of what I chose as a career. But in the course of writing it, I realized that I got more upset about the book because of another characteristic of mine: that I am a woman. Submission carries such a heavy burden for real events that its pages fail to meet the expectations placed on them. The book follows a professor of literature, solitary and indifferent, who sees […]

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5/15/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:3 |

Not-so Perfectly Matched

Perfect Match by Jodi Picoult

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Let’s just start off by saying that Jodi Picoult isn’t my favorite author, but sometimes she makes you think, and sometimes, she can put both sides of an argument on the table in a narrative form that can be somewhat entertaining.   Picoult is sort of a guilty pleasure for me, except I rarely enjoy it, and Perfect Match was no exception.  While it is meant to be a gripping and tense narrative about the explosion of lives after the molestation of a small boy in a small town and somewhat more importantly, the self-examination of a working mother after […]

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4/25/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:6 |

“Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one–the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.”

The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis

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The Screwtape Letters consists of 31 letters ‘found’ by C. S. Lewis that are from the demon Screwtape to his rookie nephew Wormwood.  Wormwood has been tasked with the corruption of a human soul, referred to only as “The Patient.”  God is referred to as “The Enemy” while the Devil is “Our Father Below.”  The whole thing is a satirical and ironic.   I first experienced The Screwtape Letters about 7 years ago as an off-Broadway play, and I loved it.  It was funny, and poignant, and made me think.  Listening to it on audiobook now leaves me a bit… […]

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4/18/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:16 |

Gus the Fisherman

The River Why by David James Duncan

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The River Why, by David James Duncan, is one of those books that I love to re-read.  I’ve read it probably ten times over the last 20 years, and it always makes me happy.  Sure, I basically know the story by heart, but it does my heart good to re-read it. So, what’s it about? Well, it’s about a lot of things.  And if you asked me the last time I read it what it was about, I’d probably say something different than I’m going to say this time.  That’s because the book is about a fisherman, but it’s also […]

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4/5/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:13 |

The Big Bang

Genesis - Part I, Chapters1-5 by Open to interpretation

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Previously on Supernatural…            Katie: It’s 9:45 p.m. my time when I check my phone and see a series of messages from Patty demanding my immediate attention. Like 10 of them. Since I had spoken with her for 45 minutes earlier in the evening, I decided this deserved another phone call since she was obviously still awake. Patty: I WILL NOT BE IGNORED. Katie: I call her, and that’s when I hear excited yankee babbling with a hint of Colombian, “I want you to keep an open mind.  Keep an open mind, okay?” I knew that whatever came next would be […]

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3/24/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:4 |

Wonder No More, This Book is Good!

The Wonder by Emma Donoghue

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The wonder mentioned in the title is a young girl named Anna who lives in a small village in Ireland and has reportedly not eaten any food for four months.  The protagonist is a widowed English nurse, trained by Florence Nightingale, who comes to the village as an impartial judge to examine the claims of the village.  The nurse is judgmental of the poverty of the Irish village and skeptical of the community’s claim that this girl is somehow getting nourishment from God. Lib the nurse ends up taking eight hour shifts, switching off with a nun, to stand by […]

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3/14/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:8 |

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