Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes

The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes

by Leave a Comment

Well, I got nothing honestly. This was not a very good book. The premise was cool (serial killer that can time travel) and all of that, but the execution of said premise didn’t work out and I found myself not liking Kirby (the final girl as horror fans like to say). The other women/girls who were murdered were not given a lot to do but die. Also, there was way too many things that were left open-ended, i.e. why is this man able to do […]

“I’ll watch and I’ll wait. I’m seventeen, and I have a thousand brilliantly hued hazardous sunrises to spare.”

Fable for the End of the World by Ava Reid

by Leave a Comment

CBR17 Bingo: Purple – Behold, the cover. In a world consumed by debt, Inesa’s mother’s compulsive spending causes her to be selected for the Gauntlet, in which she will almost certainly be killed on live TV to wipe out what her family owes. But when Inesa and the girl assigned to kill her, Melinoe, are forced to rely on each other in the wilderness, the line between predator and prey gets blurred. This is a YA dystopian romance which is in many ways a homage […]

Mesmerizing roller coaster

Cry Wolf Girl by Ariel Slamet Ries

by Leave a Comment

I think I dislike everything about this book, Cry Wolf Girl, yet it was an amazing read. I just could not put it down. There are no natural breaks so it was not like I could stop at the end of a chapter but that didn’t matter. I just wanted to gobble it up. The book makes you think, feel and question. There are clearly marked paths we are taking, but things are not straight forward. It is artistic. It is not what you think […]

“Dex drew one shaky breath, then walked away, each step sure and steady.

Monk and Robot by Becky Chambers

by 2 Comments

I read an article recently about the current state of science fiction where the thesis was basically that the field doesn’t have a clear vision of the future anymore and isn’t providing the service that it used to to the culture at large. I have qualms about this point of view because I’m a pretty optimistic person and the amount of books being published under the umbrella of science fiction make it hard for me to make a coherent argument that covers all of them […]

My friend is always making me read science fiction

Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang

by Leave a Comment

CBR17Bingo – “Recommended” because this book was recommended to my by my friend. Most of my book club is composed of a bunch of lawyers. However, there is one, lonely electrical engineer among us who is constantly recommending science-fiction novels that are met with a varying amount of acceptance. She has recommended a number of Hugo-award-winning novels to me that I have intensely disliked, so I don’t completely trust her judgment. So, when she loaned me another science-fiction book to read and said she didn’t […]

“I wanted to go home, where I felt safe. It occurred to me, as we continued our journey in silence, that when the first refugees from Earth had arrived on Giant—and, for that matter, on Io—they must have felt much the same.”

The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles by Malka Older

by Leave a Comment

When I finished The Mimicking of Known Successes a couple weeks ago I knew I wasn’t in love with that book, but that I wanted to continue reading the series to see how Malka Older built out her world and dug into her sapphic Watson & Holmes stand-ins because I had become quite attached to Mossa and Pleiti. The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles begins the same way as its predecessor in that we get a prologue from Mossa’s point of view and then the rest […]



Help Our Mission

You can donate to CBR via:

  1. PayPal
  2. Venmo