Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Search

| Log in
  1. Follow us on Facebook
  2. Follow us on Instagram
  3. Follow us on Bluesky
  4. Follow us on Goodreads
  5. RSS Feeds

  • Home
  • About
    • Getting Started in CBR18
    • Rules of Respect
    • Cannon Book Club
    • Diversions
    • Fan Mail
    • Holiday Book Exchange
    • Book Bingo Reading Challenge
    • Participation Badges
    • AlabamaPink
    • About Cannonball Read
  • Our Team
    • The CBR Team
    • Leaderboard
    • Recent Comments
    • Participant Interviews
    • Cannonballer Location Maps
    • Our Volunteers
    • Meet MsWas
  • Categories
    • Review Genres
    • Tags
    • Star Ratings
    • Featured Review Archive
  • Fight Cancer
    • How We Fight Cancer
    • Donate
    • CBR Merchandise
  • FAQ
  • Contact
    • Contact Form
    • 2026 Registration
    • Suggest a Review
    • Newsletter Sign Up
    • Newsletter Archive
    • Social Media

If Patrick Rothfuss says so and it has talking cats, it must be good

May 28, 2017 by CoffeeShopReader 2 Comments

I have never read Jim Butcher before, and I’ve had mixed luck with things that Patrick Rothfuss recommends. I decided to take a chance with The Aeronaut’s Windlass, and I liked a lot about this book. It has a good story, an interesting world, some relatable characters, and the possibility to be a really good fantasy series. But the more I think about it, the more I start seeing a lot of little problems that add up. The general narrative is action-based, with political intrigue, […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: adventure, cinder spires, Jim Butcher, steampunk, talking cats, the aeronaut's windlass

CoffeeShopReader's CBR9 Review No:39 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: adventure, cinder spires, Jim Butcher, steampunk, talking cats, the aeronaut's windlass ·
Rating:
· 2 Comments

“If you remember me, I don’t care if everyone else forgets.”

February 11, 2017 by pluiedenovembre Leave a Comment

Kafka on the Shore is a strange book, even by Murakami standards. This is my second reading but sadly I don’t remember what I thought about it the fist time I read it 12 years ago because back then I didn’t take notes or write reviews. All I know is that I thought it was a four-star book. Haruki Murakami has been one of my favorite writers ever since I “discovered” him almost 17 years ago. I read a review of The Elephant Vanishes in […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Cats, curses, Dreams, family, haruki murakami, Japan, Japanese literature, journey, kafka on the shore, literaturein translation, myths, runaways, surrealism, talking cats, translation

pluiedenovembre's CBR9 Review No:8 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Cats, curses, Dreams, family, haruki murakami, Japan, Japanese literature, journey, kafka on the shore, literaturein translation, myths, runaways, surrealism, talking cats, translation ·
Rating:
· 0 Comments
  • « Previous Page
  • 1
  • 2


Recent Comments

  • esmemoria
    on Seven people go for a tour in a mysterious library housing a very rare book, and you can probably guess the rest.
    “Skin covered finger bones”—that’s hilarious. This was a very satisfying review.
  • Anne
    on The Black Wolf by Louise Penny
    And adding French word s here and there to remind us they’re in Quebec so I have to translate but...
  • G.D. Giant
    on These (Slow) Burning Stars
    No heist, but it still feels a little heist-y due to some heist-adjacent action.
  • narfna
    on “The sun is up, the skies are blue, and murder is in the air.”
    Ooh, keep going! The books keep getting better. Also, I literally just bought a sticker yesterday that has that quote...
  • Emmalita
    on These (Slow) Burning Stars
    I do like sci-fi, especially when you throw in queer and revenge. The only thing that could make it more...
See More Recent Comments »

Support Our Mission

  • Support Our Mission, Donate Today!
  • FAQ
  • Shop
  • Volunteers
  • Leaderboard
  • AlabamaPink
  • Contact

Help Our Mission

You can donate to CBR via:

  1. PayPal
  2. Venmo

The reviews and comments posted on this site reflect the opinions of individual posters and do not reflect the views of Cannonball Read.

© 2026 Cannonball Read Inc., a registered 501(c)(3) | Log in