Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Smalls

The Werewolf Principle by Clifford Simak

The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria Rilke

The Miracles of St Cuthbert by Bede of Jarrow

I Served the King of England by Bohumil Hrabal

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The Werewolf Principle – 3/5 Not actually about werewolves, or even one werewolf. We begin this novel with a senator and his daughter coming across a man who has apparently recently returned from a trip to space, for which he was gone for 200 years of Earth time. He has no memory beyond a few basics, nothing really to say, or anything to really explain his situation. Once we get going a little bit, we come to learn that it’s possible that there’s more than […]

Beats a very low bar – barely

Enchanted Pilgrimage by Clifford Simak

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When I was complaining about old-school sci-fi written by old white men (darn you, library sci-fi book club!) a couple commenters suggested I try Clifford Simak. My mom had also recently suggested him, so when I found Enchanted Pilgrimage at a used bookstore, I figured it was a sign. Unfortunately, I didn’t love this one either. It had some lovely bits and passages, but overall it was very disjointed, with plot threads lost and picked up again (or not), characters doing stuff for no reason […]

A Positive First Contact Story

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  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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