Cannonball Read 9

Sticking it to Cancer One Book at a Time

First the smiles, then the lies. Last comes gunfire.

Wolves of the Calla by Stephen King

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Homestretch on Ye Olde Darke Towere Marathone! I’m actually starting to be sad that there are only two left plus the movie. And there had better be whole bunch of those, too, is what I’m saying, do ya. If I’m being honest, I think that Stephen King didn’t start leaning into the conceit of this series until about the time that I went all in, and that’s probably the reason I was finally able to invest fully. The more I think about it, the clearer it becomes that the first few books in the series really were still finding their […]

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7/16/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:30 |

Who Guards the Guardians (they do, of course)

Star Wars: Guardians of the Whills by Greg Rucka

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“We didn’t know that when they first arrived. Manty thought their occupation would not last, or would be token. Most believed they had come because of the temples. We thought, they have come to crush belief, because belief leads to hope, and hope can topple monsters. They will stay long enough to crush hope, but they do not understand that hope can be a very small thing. It doesn’t need much to survive. An occasional breath of air. A flicker of warmth. Hope can live in a vacuum.” – Baze Malbus

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7/6/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:16 |

A HUG IS LIKE VIOLENCE MADE OF LOVE

Empire's End (Star Wars: Aftermath, #3) by Chuck Wendig

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“When they say to one another, ‘May the Force be with you,’ it is precisely this that they mean: It is a wish that when the time comes to leap into the void and to make a decision based on instinct and trust, you are rewarded for that act and not punished. The hope is that if you meet the galaxy halfway, it meets you in the middle and carries you the rest of the distance.”   I literally checked this book out of the library four times before I finally finished it (and kept it until forced to return it […]

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6/21/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:43 |

Part X-Files and part World War Z? Your ideas are intriguing to me, and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel

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My local bookstore is really great about making recommendations for books I may otherwise have never known about. (You may remember, this was how I discovered Andrew Smith’s Grasshopper Jungle.) There’s nothing better than popping by the store and checking out what’s new and which employees have left rave reviews for titles and authors I might enjoy. When I dropped by last Friday, I wasn’t really looking for anything in particular. But when I started to browse the SciFic/Fantasy section, I saw a book with a note attached that said “LIKE A CROSS BETWEEN THE X-FILES AND WORLD WAR Z (NOT THE […]

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5/15/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:31 |

Three hundred pages of ‘meh’.

Catalyst: A Rogue One Novel by James Luceno

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This is probably half me, half the book. Not in the mood for this right now, also it wasn’t great. There’s nothing objectionable about it. I just did not care. Not the outcome I was hoping for, especially since I’ve liked all the rest of the books so far in the new Star Wars canon. I suppose this was going to happen eventually, statistically speaking. Ah, well. No harm done. Moving on with my life. I don’t recommend this book for anyone who isn’t more than a casual Star Wars fan. Casuals, move along. All right, the rest of you, […]

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2/10/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:14 |

Shitty ex’s and poorly written poetry

The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher

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I’m not the target demographic for this book. I’m not a huge fan of memoirs/autobiographies in general, and while I am a big fan of Star Wars, I didn’t see the movies until I was older and Princess Leia was not a foundational fictional character in my youth. I didn’t idolize Carrie Fisher and I never had any desire to meet her or get her autograph (although, of course, if I had run into her in a store somewhere I would have likely been star-struck).   The only reason I “read” this book is because my boyfriend got the audiobook […]

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2/10/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:4 |

“I’m afraid that if I stop writing I’ll stop thinking and start feeling.”

The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher

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It is hard to know how to review this book. I had planned to read this before Ms. Fisher passed away, but following her death it seemed somehow imperative to read it as soon as I could muster my strength to do so. It was time to say goodbye to Carrie, and to the character that defined her career. However, the very structure of this book limits its possible impact; it exists at all because Fisher discovered the journals she kept during the filming of the original Star Wars. The first third of the book is an introduction to the […]

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2/8/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:8 |

If you loved the movie, you need to read this.

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story by Alexander Freed

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If you’ve read any reviews of this book, what I’m about to say is probably something you’ve heard before: This is one of the best film novelizations I’ve ever read, if not the best. Oy, that sounds really hyperbolic, and to be fair, it’s really not a high bar to clear. People aren’t going around screaming for the next great novelization. They just aren’t. Also, the novelization for The Force Awakens was quite terrible, so psychologically speaking, pretty much if this one had been halfway decent I was going to enjoy it a lot, just as a contrast in opposite experiences. But […]

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1/26/2017 | 's CBR9 Review No:8 |

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