Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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The dangerous lull of monotony

Severance by Ling Ma

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In what seems to be a theme for me, this is a book about existing in a post-apocalyptic, plague-ravaged world. Thankfully, as part of this book being heaps and oodles better than The Twleve, it is not only a more well-considered and well-written book, when women’s biology is addressed it’s much less exploitative. Having a female author helps with that. Let me back up. Severance centers on a millennial woman named Candace. She works at a publishing house in New York, has an apartment in Brooklyn, and […]

Don’t read, not worth it

The Twelve by Justin Cronin

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Hello to my second unfinished book of the year. I just recently reviewed and really liked the first one, but this guy just wasn’t worth it. This is the sequel to The Passage and the same apocalypse with roughly the same characters, but you could tell me this was a whole new author and I would 100% believe you. The first book was all about worldbuilding the end of the world and the survival instincts of a wide band of characters. The second book boils down […]

I wish this was a real band

Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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This book makes a style choice and really commits to it, and by and large succeeds. Daisy Jones & The Six is the oral history of a fictional American rock band in the 1970s, and entirely structured as such. Interviews, with the interviewer removed – different people’s voices telling their part of the story one paragraph at a time, stitched together to make a whole. And damn if it isn’t compelling. This is the story of how a band is made, how a band skyrockets, and […]

Unfortunately an ultimately forgettable romp

The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzie Lee

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This book was soft and delightful. It felt like a hug. Not a fix-all-the-world’s-wrongs warm hug like a Rainbow Rowell, but I’ve never been too picky about my hugs. It’s hard to have a well-intentioned bad hug, and this book really has the best of intentions. It’s sweet – it’s just also kind of forgettable. Our protagonist (I’d argue he doesn’t really do enough to be considered an active hero) is Monty, a rascal of a lord’s son who is fated to inherit his father’s […]

Liked it enough to not watch the show

The Passage by Justin Cronin

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This is really just in-depth, easy to read, nice and long science fiction. Emphasis on long – we’re talking like 900 pages, and it doesn’t really suit short burst reading. But if your flight is delayed four hours and the Delhi airport is the worst, you can knock out a good long chunk of it and feel pretty good about yourself. Also apparently the book has been made into a TV show but all I know about it is that the kindle version has two […]

When history is high school

The Dead Queens Club by Hannah Capin

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I can never remember the names of Henry XIII’s wives (with the exception of the obvious Anne Boleyn) but I do remember their fates: divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived. Not gonna lie, that helped me follow along with this book. The Dead Queens Club traces the historical skeleton of Henry XIII’s marital failures but sets it all in a small-town Indiana high school. Because why not. I’d read two Very Important Literature tomes of short stories back to back, I deserved an easy cheesy read. […]



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