For my first Cannonball Read review of the new year, I read one of my Christmas presents –
MelBivDevoe’s CBR Review #1 – Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
bonnie’s #CBR6 Review #1: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
I’ve been itching to re-read The Hunger Games trilogy for weeks now, and what better place to start than with a new CBR? On a sidenote: I’m *thrilled* to start all over again. It’s great fun to read everyone’s reviews and be inspired to add to my reading list. Less fun is reading about children killing each other. Suzanne Collins does not shirk the horrors that come from a setup presents the dystopia and terror of a world that could easily be ours. As the first book […]
BrittaneyNichole #CBR6 Review #2
The plot of this book is simple enough. On the eve of his ninetieth birthday, our unnamed protagonist–an undistinguished journalist and lifelong bachelor–decides to give himself “the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin.” Actually reading the book there is much more to the simple plot. The ninety year old man has paid for sex his whole life and now wants to pay for sex with a virgin. While these two characters never have sex, he does start to fall […]
We Open at the Close…
I’m not sure why it took me so long to finish Neil Gaiman’s Sandman series, after the first volume grabbed my attention and imagination so thoroughly. But slowly, as I read through more instalments, I saw that the series was scattered with highs and lows. The tenth and final volume, The Wake, is a somber affair, regarding the events immediately following the “death,” of Morpheus, the Lord of Dreaming. But just like Despair before him, his death is more of a regeneration, if you will, […]
Not with a bang, but a whimper.
What would happen if the rotation of the earth slowed? Beyond the physical effects on the earth, what changes would occur socially? How would a young person moving into their teen years deal with both the transition to adulthood and a crumbling society trying to stay afloat? This book came highly recommended but ultimately left me a little cold. I thought it fell short of its full potential. The science fiction geek inside wanted a little more meat to conflict set up regarding earth’s […]