Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

A.I.: The Good, The Bad, The Monster

The Electric State by Simon Stålenhag

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History, CBR17 Pie Chart Challenge TITLE: The Electric State by Simon Stålenhag REVIEW: It is complex. It is different. It is familiar. It is sad. It is confusing. It is straight forward. It is something you have never read before. It is something you know. You will get something from it and everyone else will get their own thing, but everyone will experience it emotionally. Or not. Just read it already, alright  I cannot  tell you about this book as I am not really 100% […]

How we remember the future

Tales From The Loop by Simon Stalenhag

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I got into this book in the most backward way possible. I was looking for more Phillip Glass music, when I found his score for the show; so then I watched the show; then I bought the book. But it speaks to the quality of it that, as I flipped through the pages and looked at the vignettes and the memory-style stories, I put Glass’s music on and it matched perfectly. You may remember a few years back when a series of paintings of retro-style […]

Electric Nightmares

The Electric State by Simon Stalenhag

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It’s 1997 and a teenage girl is making her way across a post-apocolyptic looking USA.  She has a robot with her but we don’t know why or how they came to be companions. There are surreal sci-fi landscapes and lots of dead people with strange electric things covering their heads. Well that’s my 3 sentence synopsis that I wrote in my reading journal.  It’s hard for me to write this one because I’m not a sci-fi reader.  But my dear son gifted me this book […]



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