Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Let Down…But Not Disappointed?

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

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Have you ever read a book that was super hyped and thought it was…good but not as good as advertised? And you weren’t disappointed you read it but it still didn’t match the exaltations from others? Cloud Atlas is such a book for me. I appreciated what it was trying to do; I definitely got the 2666 vibes and 2666 is one of my favorite books of all-time so that’s a good thing. I like how it looked at the scope of history and the human experience. I like the […]

This book is a lot. #CBRBingo

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I was skeptical going in to this. If you’re following my reviews, you probably know that lit fic and I don’t always get along. And it was a bit dense, especially at first. I knew going in this was made up of a series of interlocking stories, which was probably another  reason I was wary. It’s actually cooler than that, though. The book is structured in a sort of mirror. The first story is set in the 18th century and is told as a diary, […]

The Only Thing Constant In Life Is Change

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“What wouldn’t I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds.” I literally tried and failed 3 times to get into this book over several years, but I didn’t succeed until the 4th try. I have to say that it was definitely worth the effort! The problem was that in a book with 6 narrators, it begins with the least interesting and least accessible storyline. If you can just make it through the difficult […]

In Which I Question My Sanity

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I’m going to say the words that few book lovers ever utter.  I completely understand if, from this moment on, no one ever trusts my judgement again.  I can’t even trust my judgement anymore.  But…  *deep breath* The movie was better than the book. I know, I know!  Blasphemy!  But the fact still remains, the Wachowski siblings and Tykwer were able to pull it off where Mitchell mostly floundered.  (Not that the movie was a cinematic masterpiece, but I feel like I “got” what they […]



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