Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Government drone by day and book lover and geek girl by night! I review on Goodreads, StoryGraph, and NetGalley.

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A Few Rules for Predicting the Future: An Essay by Octavia E. Butler

A Few Rules for Predicting the Future: An Essay by Octavia E. Butler

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Wow. This was so well done. I loved the text and the illustrations. Butler talks about how easy it is to predict what is going to come based on the past and how she used that to inspire her writing. This is organized around full main rules that I loved: 1. Learn from the Past 2. Respect the Laws of Consequence 3. Be Aware of Your Perspective 4. Count on the Surprises And I loved how it ended: So why try to predict the future […]

Terrestrial History by Joe Mungo Reed

Terrestrial History by Joe Mungo Reed

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Did Not Finish 40 percent Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. I tried. But with the world and my current job the way it is. I am not doing one blessed thing this year that is not bringing me joy. Heck, sometimes I can read a book that I am not exactly hate reading, but I go into a “I am finishing this because what in the world is happening here and where is […]

Party of Liars by Kelsey Cox

Party of Liars by Kelsey Cox

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Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. Not too much to say about this one, it’s honestly a 3.5 star read, but I don’t round up on my reviews anymore and just let you all know, this is not a 4 star read, but definitely not a 3 star read. I think parts of this worked really well, and others not so much. For me, I think it would have worked better if you had […]

Nine Goblins by T. Kingfisher

Nine Goblins by T. Kingfisher

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This one took a while to get going. I took my time on this one on purpose since I wanted a T. Kingfisher to savor that I knew would make me laugh a lot. This book really doesn’t get going until the goblins and the elf healer (yeah there’s a lot happening in this book) meet up and investigate a mysterious noise. Once that happened the book picked up in terms of plot and flow and I enjoyed it a lot. But due to the […]

The Next Mrs. Parrish by Liv Constantine

The Next Mrs. Parrish by Liv Constantine

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I don’t have too much to say about this one outside of, not every thing needs a sequel. This was just bad. From beginning to end the only comment I had to myself was who was this for exactly? The first book ended perfectly with Daphne Parrish (the first Mrs. Parrish) getting away clean from her ex-husband and his new terrible wife. This sequel had so many ridiculous side plots that I just got fed up. And with how this second one ended, I have […]

I Found You by Lisa Jewell

I Found You by Lisa Jewell

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Trigger warning: Sexual assault I struggled with the rating on this one, but honestly it’s a three star read. I think that there were way too many gaps in this one and the past POV with Graham honestly took away from things. I am realizing that I wish that the POVs had stayed women throughout since we have a lot of things that were about the abuse, rape, murder, and assault of women. And honestly, the character of Alice was out of her head. I […]



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