Once again, I am going to try (perhaps unwisely) to review a book without reviewing its predecessors in the series! So be warned, I haven’t been able to do this without touching on some spoilers for earlier books. I guess this is what you get by making ´This Is The End’ a bingo square. As far as authors go, Yoon Ha Lee can be a bit of a cruel master. The way he treats his readers throughout the earlier books in his Machineries […]
Maybe read this during the day…
This is a sinister story that you can read in just a few hours. It’s about Amanda, who is happily married with a great job as an architect. As strange things begin happening to her, she can’t quite figure out if it’s her, or something else. Like the tapping she constantly hears at home (it’s the pipes), or the strange incident at work (must have been a practical joke). But as things get more sinister, Amanda finds herself consulting a book on demon possession she’s […]
“The Power of Words […] They Hooked into Invididuals and Wormed Through Generations.”
I am but one of a number of Cannonballers who have read The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin so far this year! And for the most part I enjoyed it, as I know some others did. Though I think the front half really got me more so than the latter half, which is not to say that things don’t all come together and create a beautiful story, but I think it really boils down to feeling more of a connection with some of the characters whose […]
Like reading the show
Despite being born after the finale aired, I grew up on M*A*S*H. My parents bought each season on DVD as it was released and I’ve watched each episode at least three times. Maybe it doesn’t hold up quite so well watching it again as an adult (remember that episode where the guys in the Swamp convince a senior officer Hotlips is into him and he sexually assaults her … for laughs? Yeah.) But reading this book brought me right back to it all. The show (and […]