Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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If Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood were American and hated each other

The Golden Spoon by Jessa Maxwell

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So, it turns out, that Goodreads Giveaways are real! I won a copy of The Golden Spoon and about a week and a half after the email, the book did indeed appear. I have to admit, I’d only been submitting to those only half believing it was a real thing. The Golden Spoon was billed as Great British Bake off meets Clue, so I was figuring it’s a murder mystery on a baking competition, which is accurate. Ever wonder who would win in a fight […]

Catillacs, Poochini, and Other Bad Cat Puns (with Pics)

Cats Gone Bad by Kat Scratching

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My birthday happened recently and naturally there were books. One gift I got was something called Cats Gone Bad; based on the title and cover, I was thinking it would be a series of cat shaming photos and anecdotes like a pic-a-day calendar I had a few years ago called the “Bad Cat Calendar”. That is not what Cats Gone Bad is. There are pictures but they’re mostly photoshopped cats in costumes, or actual pictures that are on the basic side, like a young Siamese […]

Cooking by numbers equals 20 percent chance of cauliflower

Vegan Buddha Bowls by Cara Carin Cifelli

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It’s an interesting thing to me that sometimes cookbooks often have favored ingredients not directly related to the theme or title; case in point, Vegan Buddha Bowls seems enamored of cauliflower with lesser attention to sweet potato, carrot, and cabbages. For example, in the first section, “Beautiful, Bountiful Buddha Bowls”, there are 17 recipes. Of those 17, 4 rely on sweet potato, and 5 on cauliflower as the main starch. The salad bowl have 1 sweet potato and 2 cauliflower out of 15 (1/5, 20%); […]

A CIA book that’s more user friendly than I thought

Pies and Tarts by Kristina Petersen Migoya

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I like cookbooks, both for reading and for use. I’m always on the lookout for something new, interesting, or that might fill in a gap. I was mostly curious about what the CIA thought about Pies and Tarts which are some of my favorite things. Possible challenge here is that I usually don’t go for super chef-y cookbooks both because of the degree of difficulty and time required to gather ingredients, prepare sub recipes, and assemble; and the format that often shows up in the […]

World’s Most Dangerous Flight School

Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

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I know people who read the Fourth Wing and raved about it; I picked it up in a bookstore, saw that it used first-person present-tense narration, and put it back immediately. I saw it at the library, and decided to give it another chance. I struggled to get into it, and then I saw a social media post of a bookstore display with the signed “worst books ever”; the two things on that table I have read I kind of believe deserve to be there. […]

How blah can you be without hitting boring? Read on to find out.

The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks

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The tournament arc is one of my least favorite tropes in any kind of action driven story, be it fantasy or science fiction, in any medium not limited to but including manga, anime, cartoon, comic book, novel, series or stand alone. It always feels like filler, light on character or plot or much of anything, just a random series of conflicts that build up to the main one in which the world/universe/whatever as we know it is at stake. None of that is quite true […]



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