Last year there were several glowing reviews of Trevor Noah’s Born a Crime. Based on positive word of mouth I had already picked up the audio version which Noah narrates himself. I was intrigued by Noah – we’re the same age (well, I’m almost exactly a year older) but our lives couldn’t be more different, and I love a good memoir. For the many reasons life throws your way I did not manage to listen to Born a Crime in 2017. However, fast forward to […]
Fuzzy Wuzzy Was a Cat
Fuzzy Nation, by John Scalzi, is a remake of an earlier sci-fi novel by H. Beam Piper. It tells the story of Jack Holloway, a surveyor on the planet Zara XXIII, owned by Zaracorp. He is your classic case of a guy falling upwards. He worked as an attorney and got himself fired by punching a client. He got himself a large settlement from the company that wanted him to get the case to a mistrial. He is smart, but he clearly knows it. He’s also […]
Moonstruck
This review constitutes many firsts for me. Having fundamentally misunderstood CB9 and not posted a single review, this is my first time cannonball-ing in earnest. This was also my first ever audiobook, and it just so happened that we finished it on the 1st of the New Year. My intrepid fiancé and I were looking for a way to pass 12 hours in a car and I was asked to find an audiobook that was “Adventurous, but also Sci-fi and maybe mysterious.” No short order […]
A Trilogy Comes to a Close, and I’m Okay With That
I usually set myself up with reading landmarks throughout the year, to keep things interesting for myself. It also helps to keep me on pace. The past three years I have ‘read with my ears’ Tessa Dare’s Stud Club series. It was a random choice, to pick this series to enjoy via audiobook, but I’ve stuck with it and it been for the good. The narrator, Rosalyn Landor, handles the text superbly and I’m fairly certain she improves upon Dare’s early, sometimes uneven, work. Because […]