Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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When writing a genre-based lim'rick / Avoid lengthy 'post-apoc'lyptic' / Though CB reviews / Have broadened my views / My fave is still chick-written sci-fic (Learn more about this Cannonballer: Bothari43's Quick Questions interview.)

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Sunshine by Robin McKinley

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I’ve read and liked Robin McKinley, but somehow I managed to miss this one. Then a bunch of Cannonballers were commenting on another McKinley review that Sunshine was the best vampire book they’d ever read. When I found it at a library book sale, I was super psyched, and I was not disappointed. Rae Seddon (get it? Rae of Sunshine?) is a baker at a coffee shop. (So many descriptions of baked goods in this book. Drool.) Her stepfather owns the coffee shop, her mother […]

Quick Questions with a Cannonballer: llamareadsbooks

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Did you grow up as a reader? Are your kids readers? I was a voracious reader as a kid! I remember having to get special permission to take out more than the usual number of books from the library, plus I got early access to the Young Adult room. Each summer, we’d go on vacation to a cabin for two weeks and between myself, my mom and my grandmother we’d have 5-6 milk crates of books. It’s no surprise that my kids also rocket through […]

Beats a very low bar – barely

Enchanted Pilgrimage by Clifford Simak

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When I was complaining about old-school sci-fi written by old white men (darn you, library sci-fi book club!) a couple commenters suggested I try Clifford Simak. My mom had also recently suggested him, so when I found Enchanted Pilgrimage at a used bookstore, I figured it was a sign. Unfortunately, I didn’t love this one either. It had some lovely bits and passages, but overall it was very disjointed, with plot threads lost and picked up again (or not), characters doing stuff for no reason […]

Only Mostly Dead

Shallow Graves by Kali Wallace

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I read Kali Wallace’s Dead Space last year and really liked it, so I picked this one out from the library without even reading the blurb. It was completely unexpected (no space!), but I liked this one too. Breezy was a pretty typical teenage (16/17) girl, dealing with high school, sisters, and a best friend who isn’t all that nice to her (why do we all fall for that at that age?). Then, all of a sudden, she wakes up in a shallow grave a […]

I hope this new must-read author is a fast writer – I need more!

Finder by Suzanne Palmer

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The problem with finding a new author who is new to the scene and not just new to me is that there’s no backlog to dive into. Suzanne, I hope you’re working on a stack of new stuff STAT! I actually started this series with book two and loved it, this is book one, and book three came out last year and now I have to find it. The Finder series is a lot of fun. Fergus Ferguson has some serious emotional baggage, but travels […]

Characters wishing there were signs at a fork in the road: “There’s cake this way!” vs. “So many teeth! Nope nope nope!”

Kill the Farm Boy by Delilah S. Dawson and Kevin Hearne

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Does every slightly funny fantasy book get compared to Terry Pratchett? A of all, that’s lazy, and second of B, it is so rarely accurate. This was slight and fun, but it reminded me more of a Christopher Moore type than a Pratchett type. But when I downloaded it from my library app, there were lots of raving quotes about its Pratchettness. This set the bar too high for a book that was just fine. This starts out like every fantasy book you’ve ever read, […]



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