Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

The premise is the only redeeming feature and even that’s somewhat derivative

The Infinite Noise by Lauren Shippen

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Bingo 12: Free I’m going to be up front about this: if this hadn’t been a free download from the Tor.com book club, I’d have been annoyed to have spent any money on it. The story is predictable, and the plot is both mostly lacking and also incomplete. I am reminded in a way of the Goosebumps series; I never really got into that as a kid in part because of how the endings were often not entirely endings. Same problem here. The Infinite Noise […]

I keep my heart safely between the pages of this book…

Overseas by Beatriz Williams

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Kate Wilson thinks her life is pretty normal. She just wants to finish her internship at Sterling Bates so she can head off to business school and become a commodities trader in her own right. Enter Julian Lawrence—Sterling Bates client and mysterious billionaire hedgie. Despite a rocky beginning, Julian can’t seem to get enough of Kate. He’s using the L word before they’ve even had their first date. Suddenly her life is anything but normal. The world slides sideways—Kate is fired for alleged insider trading, […]

Hacker Adventure with a Kitty

Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson

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Bingo 11 Book Club In preparation for CBR book club in September, I picked up Alif the Unseen; I chose this one since I’d already read one of the other options (The Bear and the Nightingale) and I picked up the other option off the library shelf, flipped through it, and decided ‘Nope, not my style, this writing would drive me nuts’. Having now read Alif the Unseen, I have to say, good job whoever suggested this. In some ways, the story reminded me of […]

This book gave me *a yearning*. #CBRBINGO – Flora

A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1) by Becky Chambers

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“. . . the robots left the factories and departed for the wilderness.” “Before long, Dex was no longer nursing something as simple as an odd fancy for a faraway insect. The itch had spread into every aspect of their life. When they looked up at the skyscrapers, they no longer marveled at their height but despaired at their density—endless stacks of humanity, packed in so close that the vines that covered their engineered casein frames could lock tendrils with one another. The intense feeling […]

Why does everyone just accept everything the AI says?

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

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So this book was an impulse buy. I saw the hardback at Waterstones with £3 off and it was just so pretty. Plus, Ishiguro won the Nobel Prize in Literature and I’d never read anything by him before, so had to have it. It was on my “near future” TBR until I read andtheIToldYouSos’s lovely review, which catapulted it straight to my “next read” slot. 🙂 Let me start a quick summary of the book: Klara is an AF, or Artificial Friend, who are sun-powered […]

You just remember what your old pal said (Girl), you’ve got a friend in me

Making Friends V01 by Kristen Gudsnuk

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cbr13bingo Shelfie (granted, not my shelf, but it is on a shelf at a place I call mine.) If making friends was as easy as it was in Making Friends V01 by Kristen Gudsnuk, most of us would never have to be friendless again. Of course, one would have to have some mad skills in drawing to make sure stick figures were not wandering around. Which our main character, Dany, has. Maybe just a little too good! How do you make a friend? For Dany […]



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