Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Next time, I’ll just read The Stand again.

Wanderers by Chuck Wendig

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This book had everything going for it, including multiple comparisons to The Stand, and a massive recommendation from the mothership. I started it back in August, thinking I could whip through it for the Pajiba Says bingo square, and well, I just finished it yesterday. I was…not a fan. I didn’t hate it, but I was incredibly let down by it. The story starts out strong: across the world, sleepwalkers start marching toward an unknown destination. Their numbers start off small, and as the group […]

Episode 2-4: It’s So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday

Vultures by Chuck Wendig

Fire & Blood by George R.R. Martin

The Far Side of the World by Patrick O'Brian

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https://killingmykindle.com/2019/02/12/episode-2-4-its-so-hard-to-say-goodbye-to-yesterday/ Wherein I review: 11 – Vultures (Miriam Black #6) by Chuck Wendig 12 – Fire & Blood by George R.R. Martin 13 – The Far Side of the World (Aubrey & Maturin #10) by Patrick O’Brian Jammed that B2M song right up in the thoughthole, eh?  Chuck Wendig takes a bow on his Miriam Black books, and I get wistful.  GRRM writes yet another damn book that isn’t Winds of Winter, but it did remind me of how much I love ASOIAF, so I’m […]

Episode 1-05: Reaper, Raptor, Sandwich, Serge

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https://killingmykindle.com/2018/02/07/episode-1-05-reaper-raptor-sandwich-serge/ Wherein I review: 12. Iron Gold (Red Rising #4) by Pierce Brown 13. The Raptor and the Wren (Miriam Black #5) by Chuck Wendig 14. Ms. Ice Sandwich by Mieko Kawakami 15. Deeply Odd (Odd Thomas #6) by Dean Koontz 16. The Pope of Palm Beach (Serge Storms #21) by Tim Dorsey

Escape now. Hug later.

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Okay, did you read the hilarious tweet conversation this summer between Chuck Wendig and Sam Sykes? It’s here. I’ll wait while you read it, because it’s a damned delight of an exchange between two writers who love their work and appreciate genre and enjoy happiness. And then there was another one, this fall. It’s here. Again, I’ll wait. Okay. So, the above was the first I had ever heard of either Wendig or Sykes, and I instantly became a more-likely fan of both because of […]

A HUG IS LIKE VIOLENCE MADE OF LOVE

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“When they say to one another, ‘May the Force be with you,’ it is precisely this that they mean: It is a wish that when the time comes to leap into the void and to make a decision based on instinct and trust, you are rewarded for that act and not punished. The hope is that if you meet the galaxy halfway, it meets you in the middle and carries you the rest of the distance.”   I literally checked this book out of the library […]

YOU KNOW WHAT I LIKE THE NEW CANON EU. I LIKE IT A LOT.

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The good news is this book is better than the first one. The bad news is . . . well, there isn’t really any bad news. This book is better than the first one. The end. Most of the stuff that annoyed me in the first book (the style being so omnipresent it pulled me out of the story, the occasional colloquialism that shouldn’t be in Star Wars, etc.) is gone. Either that or I didn’t notice. Either way, same result. The POV is still […]



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