The Fault in our Stars is not a book I ever expected to read. I knew so much about it peripherally. I knew the author John Green through his Mental Floss videos (not discovering the equally educational and more interesting Crash Course videos until later). I had known Shailene Woodley would play Hazel and was utterly confused as I saw her act next to her film brother and future film lover Ansel Elgort in Divergent. Out of sheer curiosity, I read the Wiki page for the movie […]
Starting off with a …meh…
My earliest review, evar!! I usually only review things that evoke a strong response and I’ve never even made a quarter Cannonball. This year I’m going to try to write about every book I finish. This book was basic. It was free on Kindle (still is as of this writing, if you just haaaave to read a romance set on Coronado) (N.B. how the fuck y’all gonna afford any real estate out there?) Hannah Davis was jilted and wants to find out what tore her […]
Guys… I just can’t with this one.
I write haiku reviews for all the movies I see, so I’m going to continue that tradition for CBR10…
The Boring Lives of Medium-Level Jerks
Hi everyone! This is my very first review of my very first Cannonball! And… it nearly sank my ship. You know that thing people say about “when someone tells you who they are, believe them”? I should have taken that theory and applied it to this book. There’s a quote early on about the family whom this book revolves around: “There was nothing remarkable about the Whitshanks… But like most families, they imagined they were special.” The key word here is “imagined” because they aren’t […]
Fun space caper
Artemis is the second published novel of Andy Weir, of The Martian fame. The book is titled after the city Artemis, the only city on the Moon in the near future. With about 2,000 residents Artemis is tiny and mostly dependent on its tourism industry. People save up for trips to the Moon to be able to experience lunar gravity and see the historic site of the Apollo 11 landing. Artemis is brought to life by it’s narrator, Jasmine (Jazz) Bashara, Saudi born but raised on the Moon […]
A Positive First Contact Story
This is my first post for Cannonball Read, and I’m so happy I remembered to sign up in time this year! For my first book, I wish I could say that I chose a special book, but I didn’t. I bought this a few months ago as from a recommendation from i09. The book starts with a description of a battle, time or setting initially unclear, just a description of the ruined landscape and “the sodden bundles that cried aloud the emptiness and the […]
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