Cannonball Read 17

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My husband Jason and I are wonder twin cancer survivors! Sadly, all the radiation did not make us bionic...yet. I've done two quarter Cannonballs successfully now, and this year I'm going for a half.

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A Magic School for Kids

The Incandescent by Emily Tesh

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CBR Square- School I read The Incandescent by Emily Tesh because she promoted it on Threads as a book with a magic school where the adults are allowed to be competent. And that doesn’t mean they don’t make mistakes, but when the students get themselves into trouble with their magic, they go to an adult who can help them and she does. So this is entirely told from the adult perspective, and one demon. I really liked it a lot. Dr. Walden is the Director of Magic […]

Stand Back Everyone!

Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

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CBR Square- Borrowed Rebecca Yarros is about to reinvent the fantasy genre with Fourth Wing! It has sexy times in it, and no fantasy novel in recent times has people enjoying each other’s company! Sigh. I borrowed this for my audible subscription. It was fine. There were actually some things that I liked about this book. I liked the main character Violet has strengths and weaknesses. She has to use her brain to get herself out of situations where other people just use brute strength. […]

The Male Loneliness Epidemic

The Magicians by Lev Grossman

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CBR Square- Red A friend of mine recommended I watch The Magicians, so I picked up the audiobook to see if I would like it in a general way. I had known that the book is pretty different from the tv show but I thought it would give me a general idea. A few years ago there was a big deal made about how men don’t really form deep friendships anymore and there was a male loneliness epidemic. https://www.npr.org/2025/02/17/1263527043/its-been-a-minute-male-loneliness-epidemic-real. I am not fully sure why […]

Plot Twist

Immortal Longings by Chloe Gong

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CRB Bingo Square “I”. When you know a book has a big huge twist in it, do you try to figure out what it is? I had read that there’s a big twist at the end of Chloe Gong’s Immortal Longings, and even though the book did a good job of setting it up, I was very surprised. So then I thought about what kind of reader I am in general, and I would say I tend to just read and let the plot wash […]

Let’s Not Ship Toxic Men

Heavenly Tyrant by Xiran Jay Zhao

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Heavenly Tyrant, the sequel to Iron Widow, picks up immediately after the first book finishes, and the long ago Emperor Qin Zheng is awake now and won’t be dying of the plague he was certainly dying from. He is immediately accepted as the ruler of Huaxia, and has absolute power. Zetian marries him, and they implement what seems to have parallels to the rise of Communist China and Mao Zedong. He strips wealthy folks of their lands to redistribute and he imprisons and executes many […]

Very Visceral

Heirs of Bone and Sea by Kay Adams

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I think I listened to the audio book to Heirs of Bone and Sea because it was a part of the “what’s making me happy this week” segment on the Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast. This was my first dual narrator audio book in a while. I liked it well enough. The world building is pretty light but the main story of a princess and a queen on the run was fun. Evhen, queen of Vodaerd and Princess Kalei of Marama are brought together when […]



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