war stories – Cannonball Read 17

“War eats the victors last.”

Iron Gold (Red Rising #4) by Pierce Brown

February 25, 2019 by alwaysanswerb Leave a Comment

The Red Rising series continues to be incredibly compelling and well-written, though I admit that I was concerned about Iron Gold. I had read that extending beyond the original trilogy wasn’t part of Pierce Brown’s original plan, so I wasn’t sure if this was going to be a reflection of an author caught in the vortex of a world they’d created, but lacking the clear vision of the first phase of books. What became clear was that the story beginning with Iron Gold IS going […]

Tom Taylor’s journey comes to an end

December 27, 2017 by Malin 1 Comment

Tom Taylor is trying to find his way back to his friends, moving through a number of children’s stories. Even when he’s reunited with his storyteller father, Wilson Taylor, who by writing a popular fantasy series where the main character shared Tom’s name, pretty much gave him the abilities to move through all manner of works of fiction, and his friends, the world is in chaos, as the Leviathan, the source of all the stories in the world, is gravely wounded. The boundaries between stories […]

“They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of the things they carried.”

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien, narrated by Bryan Cranston

June 8, 2016 by faintingviolet 1 Comment

700 Sundays by Billy Crystal must be an absolutely astounding audio book because I can’t imagine what it must have taken to beat out Bryan Cranston’s reading of Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried. I was so convinced it was award worthy that I went looking it up and was sadly disappointed. This audio experience was one of the most affecting I’ve experienced, and Cranston’s work is simply masterful. Tim O’Brien, through the way he weaves his narrative as beautifully read by Cranston (I know […]

Penultimate shenanigans.

January 14, 2016 by narfna Leave a Comment

The penultimate book in The Unwritten was a bit of a letdown. It felt really unfocused. Granted, the whole thing is about stories coming unraveled, and that might be the point, but either way, it wasn’t a super great reading experience. I feel like there could have been a better way to convey a world that’s lost its purpose without having the story feel a little bit purposeless as well. Tom has finally made it back to the real world after a year of being […]

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