Cannonball Read 17

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A little BS might go a long way

On Bullshit by Harry G. Frankfurt

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The late Princeton University philosopher Harry G. Frankfurt might just be best known, when he’s known, for a little book titled On Bullshit. When I say little, I mean the library copy I currently have on my desk measures roughly 4×6 inches, and is a bit under 1 cm thick. 20oz mug included for size reference. I’d heard of this book before at an academic conference when a former classmate of mine used it to consider whether or not the Roman politician Cicero’s works fell […]

Truth in Dreams?

Cursed Princess Club v.3 by LambCat

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Bingo 1: Dreams Starting in the center because 1) it fits my most recent read, and 2) it’s not bad bingo strategy. Dreams and prophecies are common in fairy tales, and The Cursed Princess Club (v.3), being the fairy-tale riff that it is, is no exception. The main plot this time deals with Gwen getting her portrait painted by Lord Leopold. Gwen is the third princess but she’s different as the third child always is, but in her case her difference is that she’s not […]

It took eleven volumes but there’s some actual character development. Now if only it went somewhere.

My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! v.11 by Satoru Yamaguchi, Nami Hidaka

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My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom is largely cozy isekai fantasy. Protagonist, a geeky gamer high schooler, dies/wakes up in the body of the antagonist of her favorite romance video game, and she has to avoid the bad outcomes for herself. Which she does mostly by being nice to everyone, and also clueless about the romance part. As in, noticing who is actually in love with whom. This almost active refusal to see what’s in front of her get annoying, […]

Magic Murder Mystery Show

A Midnight Puzzle by Gigi Pandian

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A Midnight Puzzle is mostly a cozy mystery with the main investigator being a disgraced professional magician who came home to work at the family construction company which specializes in things like hidden doors/staircases and other sort of magic themed set ups. As with most mystery series, this one has both the first murder (and a related disappearance), as well as a longer running one which is always in the background. Tempest, her family, and friends are all fun characters with their own quirks who […]

Komi has to fight for her school, her friend, and maybe her boyfriend too

Komi Can't Communicate vol. 29 by Tomohito Oda

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Palate cleanser was needed so I went for a volume of Komi Can’t Communicate (v.29). In yet another improbable (and stupid if you think about it too hard) situation, Komi and pals’ school is in danger of being shut down because the 20-something nepo-baby in charge got drunk and made a wager. Now, Komi, Tadano, et al. have to compete in a trivia game, and go to camp to do it. That’s plot thread 1. Plot thread  is that it turns out that the star […]

Deadly battle of wits, vampires, and super powered gangs all getting mixed up

Bungo Stray Dogs vol 23 by Kafka Asagiri, Sango Harukawa

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Bungo Stray Dogs is one of those extended episodic stories (manga series) that’s about a vaguely dystopic world in which people sometimes have super-powers that are literary themed. There’s a couple of main groups in opposition to each other but sometimes they work together, and there’s plenty of adventure and fighting. It’s also one of those series where things get dark, and maybe you see a hero run through with a sword, but then in a volume or two by some weird twist of fate, […]



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