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Multiple dimensions of disappointment

The Dark Forest by Ciuxin Liu

May 5, 2023 by Merryn 5 Comments

** some thematic spoilers ** I loved The Three Body Problem and had high hopes for the sequel.  But I found this book so hard to get through.  It’s dense.  The first half or so is so slow.  I persevered, because I also found the first book hard to get into and all that critical acclaim had to have some justification.  But as the pace started to pick up, more dimensions of disappointment unfolded. Even before the nihilistic Battle of Darkness took place and the […]

Filed Under: Featured, Science Fiction Tagged With: CBR15, Ciuxin Liu

Merryn's CBR15 Review No:1 · Genres: Featured, Science Fiction · Tags: CBR15, Ciuxin Liu ·
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Family secrets and a ghost story

Black Water Sister by Zen Cho

May 1, 2023 by persnickety chick 1 Comment

I do love the tagline- She was trouble, so is her ghost. First book of the year (well first review), first CBR Passport book (book about another country).  This was a book that i suggested for my IRL book club (because i already owned it), so the review considers their responses as well. While I have owned “Sorcerer to the Crown” for a number of years I have never quite gotten into it and it took reading a book of short stories by Zen Cho […]

Filed Under: Book Club, Featured, Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: CBR15, CBR15Passport, ghosts, malaysia, Zen Cho

persnickety chick's CBR15 Review No:1 · Genres: Book Club, Featured, Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: CBR15, CBR15Passport, ghosts, malaysia, Zen Cho ·
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Cover image of Kiss Her Once For Me by Alison Cochrun. Two women on stools leaning in talking to one another in front of a window through which there is a city skyline and falling snow.

The Queer Family Stone

Kiss Her Once For Me by Alison Cochrun

May 1, 2023 by NoNeinNyet 1 Comment

This is a bit of a delayed Christmas romcom review, both due to the large hold list for it through the Twin Cities-area Libby library and because I utterly fell down on actually reviewing books for CBR 14. Ellie Oliver is a failed animation artist turned webcomic writer and barista. She’s stuck in life and hung up on a one-day snowstorm fling she had over Christmas the year before so when Andrew Kim-Prescott, the landlord of the coffee shop she works at, asks him to […]

Filed Under: Featured, Romance Tagged With: Alison Cochrun, bisexual, bisexual heroine, CBR15, christmas, lesbian, queer, Romance, romcom

NoNeinNyet's CBR15 Review No:1 · Genres: Featured, Romance · Tags: Alison Cochrun, bisexual, bisexual heroine, CBR15, christmas, lesbian, queer, Romance, romcom ·
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Hot vet and social media star find love in a small town

Chick Magnet by Emma Barry

April 25, 2023 by Malin Leave a Comment

#CBR15 Passport Challenge – Different genres (contemporary romance) Readers of my blog know that all my reviews are written on my personal blog and then crossposted here on the Cannonball Read, which celebrates its fifteenth anniversary this year(!) The recent comment diversion celebrating this, challenging us to write fifteen-word reviews seemed like the opposite of everything my review style represents. I frequently have review titles longer than fifteen words.  Nevertheless, I decided to use the comment diversion to try to help myself through my review […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: CBR15, CBR15Passport, Chick Magnet, chickens, Contemporary Romance, Depression, Emma Barry, Malin, post-covid, small town life

Malin's CBR15 Review No:17 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: CBR15, CBR15Passport, Chick Magnet, chickens, Contemporary Romance, Depression, Emma Barry, Malin, post-covid, small town life ·
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A WWI novel both predictable and surprising

In Memoriam: A Novel by Alice Winn

April 25, 2023 by ElCicco 1 Comment

In Memoriam is the story of two young men, students from the prestigious (fictional) British public school Preshute, who go off to fight in the First World War. You can imagine, if you are at all familiar with WWI literature, how this tale is going to go, and yet Winn, in her first novel, manages to create a story that is faithful to the horrors of that conflict while still surprising the reader with its conclusion. Winn, herself the product of a British boarding school, […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History Tagged With: Alice Winn, CBR15, ElCicco, Fiction, In Memoriam, WWI

ElCicco's CBR15 Review No:24 · Genres: Fiction, History · Tags: Alice Winn, CBR15, ElCicco, Fiction, In Memoriam, WWI ·
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Your life hasn’t even started yet and you’re already lost?

Tatami Galaxy by Tomihiko Morimi

April 20, 2023 by Leedock Leave a Comment

CBR15PASSPORT (Stamp #5: Books from different countries. Japan.) This one was an adventure for me. I don’t know a lot about Japanese literature or anime, but my kid is a Japanophile. He’s planning to minor in Japanese in college this (gulp) fall and would like to live there for a couple of years at some point (also, gulp). So, I thought of him when I saw this on the “new” bookshelf at the library and decided to give it a whirl. I asked him about it and […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Featured Tagged With: #fantasy, CBR15, CBR15Passport, Tomihiko Morimi

Leedock's CBR15 Review No:5 · Genres: Fantasy, Featured · Tags: #fantasy, CBR15, CBR15Passport, Tomihiko Morimi ·
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