Cannonball Read 17

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Purple for the Spooky Science

The Glass Scientists vol. 1 by S. H. Cotucino

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Bingo 20: Purple When the public library has a summer reading program that adults can do, and also get prizes, it’s a good time. The past few years, the top reading level prize (defined by minutes read) is you get to take home a new book from a seemingly random selection the library ahs gotten. This year I went with The Glass Scientists volume 1. It was on the YA list, but I tend to keep an eye out for things I can use in […]

End of the Ghost Roads

Angel of the Overpass by Seanan McGuire

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Bingo 18: Border   Angel of the Overpass is perfect for “borders” because it’s a book about the borders between the living and the dead, as well as different types or realms of being dead. It’s also a ghost story, and it’s spooky season. I’d sort of been saving this one since it’s the probably final installment of Seanan McGuire’s Ghost Roads series, which I think is my favorite of her series’ though probably not the best known. The premise is firmly rooted in American […]

Accidentally Lost, Found, Returned

The Bookshop at the Back of Beyond by Amy Sparkes

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  Bingo 17: Borrowed Imagine my surprise one day when I went to my mailbox and saw two book boxes, when I was only expecting one. The second book had my name on the outer label, but was ordered by and for someone else per the sales slip. It was a busy Saturday and I wasn’t going to be able to go to the local Barnes and Noble to return this mistake in shipping, so I may have borrowed the book to read before sending […]

Not much edge to the veg

The Edgy Veg by Candice Hutchings

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Bingo 16: Culture The Edgy Vedge is a bit dated, but it demonstrates both vegan food and Youtube content creator culture. Full disclosure 1: I don’t hang out on Youtube a lot. That said, I can see how the “quirky-cute” vibe the writing tries for might have been popular in the video version; I have not looked that up. The written version gets a little annoying, like someone is trying to hard to be funny. First of all, I see very little “edgy” in trying […]

GBBO Romantasy Meringue

A Fellowship of Bakers & Magic by J. Penner

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Bingo 15 :White Notice the color of the title text? And few splashes of said color elsewhere? Ok then. However, if you want to be more creative about it, white is often represented as the absence of color, which could be argued to be a metaphor for the total absence of substance in this novel. So, there’s that too. Now to be absolutely clear, the absence of substance is exactly what I needed when I picked this up. I needed a palate cleasner from something […]

“I am given no voice in decisions or plans!” but she wants one

Elusive by Genevieve Cogman

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Bingo 14: Citizen Elusive is part 2 of a trilogy that re-imagines some things about the French Revolution. It’s definitely fiction, but given the historical context of citizens trying to take back power from the elite which is a theme in the novel in more ways than one, I argue this counts. A major part of the fiction is the addition of the (former?) maid Eleanor to the Scarlet Pimpernel and his crew, and the addition of vampires (Marie Antoinette might still be around in […]



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