Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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The Ministry of Time: the strangest fan fiction

The Ministry of Time by Kaliene Bradley

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mood music: running up that hill – kate bush This was the strangest little novel I have read this year. But, it was one of the most original plotlines I have read in a long time. I had to do real googling to understand the background details that inspired this story because one of the characters is based on a real historical figure.  Our unnamed protagonist, a British-Cambodian civil servant in London, is recently promoted to Bridge for a new pilot program in a new […]

A Guest in the House: a twisty, turny, graphic novel

A Guest in the House by E.M. Carroll

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mood music: Crazy – gnarls barkley The last graphic novel I read was Batman: The Killing Joke by Alan Moore, a dark and gritty telling of the Joker’s origins as a failed comedian turned violent criminal. This seems to be a pattern with the graphic novels that I gravitate towards, including Watchmen and Maus, and this novel is no different. Written and illustrated by E.M. Carroll (formerly Emily Carroll), the story tells the tale of Abby, a recently married discount store clerk, and follows her day-to-day with […]

First Lie Wins: the spy thriller that wasn’t

First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston

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mood music: Secrets – the weeknd Yet again, I find myself in the minority opinion after my latest “read.” I chose to listen to the audiobook version of this title while nursing a cold, and while the first third of the story was intriguing and well-paced, the latter two-thirds fell apart for me in a way that I had to read a summary to understand what happened at the end. To me, it felt like there were a lot of plot points that were left […]

Anita de Monte Laughs Last: shedding light on a forgotten artist

Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xochitl Gonzalez

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mood music: Fantasmas – humbe I have complicated feelings about this book, and so I will preface by saying that I am rating it 3.75/5, rounding up on here. The beginning was a little slow, but it picked up for me about a fifth of the way through, and I couldn’t put it down after that. Gonzalez is a talented writer, able to craft fully formed, vibrant characters with narration bouncing off the page. If you like one of her characters, you really like them. […]

A Most Agreeable Murder: pride and prejudice meets Miss Marple

A Most Agreeable Murder by Julia Seales

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mood music: Cheap Thrills – sia (bridgerton version) This was such a pleasant little book, I’m so happy to have come across it in my reading journey this year. It also helped me discover a new story genre to add to my repertoire – the cozy mystery. Influenced by Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple and set during the era of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, this was a lighthearted introduction to what I imagine will be a series of books that I cannot wait to pick up […]

An Apprenticeship: I tried

An Apprenticeship by Clarice Lispector

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mood music: Só Tinha De Ser Com Você – elis regina and tom jobim I will accept that I am in the minority regarding this book. Based on the GoodReads score and the consensus on social media, I guess I don’t understand art. Clarice Lispector was a very talented writer, the prose itself is almost poetic in the way that it flows throughout the story, but thematically I could not get on board with this book. At first, I thought it was the translation from […]



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