Is this a review? I don’t even know anymore. But I’ve gotten to the point where I don’t really have anything new to say about these books. Its sort of like Janet Evanovich has a 200 page template and just fills in the blanks. Like a gigantic, best-selling Mad Lib. I really don’t know why I still read these. I don’t like them that much anymore. But maybe I do? I don’t know! I’m annoyed that Stephanie SPOILER slept with Ranger because she had some […]
Book 2: Malazan Book of the Fallen
Deadhouse Gates is the second in Erikson’s Malazan series. It is dark, you guys. This might be the wrong time of my life for me to read it. I really enjoyed the first book in this series, Gardens of the Moon. The things I enjoyed in the first book are found here again – incredibly world building, dropping the reader into the midst of a series of rich plots and being expected to just pick it up, and some characters that are not just tropes. […]
Too cute for words (but I’ll try)!
I took my first trip to Yellowstone last summer and in one of the official gift shops in the Park, I picked up this innocent little book as a souvenir–supporting the Park Service and all that! Originally published in 1932, Cubby in Wonderland tells the story of a mother bear and her cub as they travel from Grand Teton National Park to Yellowstone and the many interesting critters they meet along the way. I’ll confess, during the opening pages I was all set to make some good-natured jokes about this book, like how […]
Bite Me
So my reading choices this year seem to be all over the place – my usual genre is historical romance and I haven’t read as many of those so far. My latest book took me back to the vampire world, a genre I’d read extensively a few years ago. This is the second book in the Chicagoland Vampires and features a young woman newly turned vampire in Chicago, where vampires and shape shifters are out in the open. I haven’t read the first one, but […]
So now I feel like an underachiever
Lab Girl is one of those books that makes you sit back and wonder what you’ve been doing with your life. It’s not enough that Hope Jahren is an accomplished geobiologist and geochemist, or that she has a Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley. It’s not enough that she’s won three Fulbright Awards, or that Popular Science magazine named her one of its “Brilliant 10” scientists in 2006. It’s not enough that in 2016 Time named her one of the world’s “100 Most Influential People.” With all those accomplishments, you’d think she’d have […]
As if I were no more than a possession for these two creatures to fight over.
Dear Cannonball Readers: I am so sorry. I voted for The Devourers for this Book Club Read. I thought it looked awesome. I hated it. This review is a two-star review. Because yes, I hated it, but the end was just okay. It finally picked up. Something finally happened. There was a point. The point was aggravating and boring and seriously not worth it, but it was finally there. These shapeshifters are full of some damn nonsense. You’re a superior creature, but your social rules […]
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