Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

I will love her and pet her and squeeze her and call her Georgie.

Ice Planet Barbarians (Special Edition) by Ruby Dixon

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He wears leather, eats raw meat, and hunts with slings and bone knives. Big guy’s probably never heard of a space heater, much less a spaceship. ― Ruby Dixon, Ice Planet Barbarians CBR17 Bingo: Letter I When I came across this special edition in the used book section of one of my favorite bookstores, I decided to buy it because I’d heard it was good and because it was only $5. But then I remembered the tower of unread books in my TBR pile and […]

The Scarlet Plague by Jack London

The Scarlet Plague by Jack London

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I never knew that Jack London wrote something called The Scarlet Plague and it was futuristic fiction. He wrote this in 1912 and at times during the story I thought about what happened with COVID-19 and what could have happened if we at that time didn’t come together and actually do what we could to contain it. I think that parts of the book though were just confusing at times (random wording occurring). I got the free version of this story so I am sure that was […]

Not sure I am going to bother with book 3

The Blighted Stars by Megan E O’Keefe

The Fractured Dark by Megan E O’Keefe

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These two novels are the first and second novel of a sci-fi trilogy. Usually, I tend to either review novels in a trilogy individually or do the whole trilogy as one review. And since I have only read two, my original intent was to do two separate reviews. But here is the thing: I liked the first book. It wasn’t perfect – I think there is something about the author’s style that just doesn’t quite work for me so that even when I am enjoying […]

Ricky and his pal Robot

Ricky Ricotta V01 Ricky Ricotta's Mighty Robot by Dav Pilkey and Dan Santat

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I need two ratings for the book, Ricky Ricotta’s Mighty Robot. One rating for me and one for the readers it is aimed at. My rating is a 2 as I did not care for things. There was nothing that was “exciting” to me personally. The illustrations were the bright spot as they are bold and well colored, but not overly detailed so they do not distract from the story but support it. However, if I was recommending to younger readers (as young as five […]

The Last Samurai

Yojimbot Volume 1: Metal Silence by Sylvain Repos and Noiry

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Yojimbot Volume 1: Metal Silence by Sylvain Repos and Noiry There is something about this book I liked a lot. There wasn’t a new theme, but the way it was presented really captured me. We start “at the end” of things, or we don’t know why we are finding ourselves in a rundown, abandoned park that not-so-nice (to say the very least) military and/or government scientists inhabit. The artwork is clever, but I’ve seen it before, yet I really was into it. There is a […]

Talking goats, the common cold and other ways to change history

Earthdivers V01: Kill Columbus by Stephen Graham Jones

Earthdivers V02: Ice Age! by Stephen Graham Jones

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Time travel books. I like the concept of them and even have enjoyed some time traveling TV shows and movies, and I have even enjoyed some books with the theme. However, they also can confuse the bejimminies out of me. The Earthdivers series had all the good stuff I like about books and time traveling books but also all the pieces that confuse me. And while things are fairly straight forward, when people start to backtrack on themselves, it gets confusing. Part of this is […]



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