Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Books have been a part of my life from a very young age . I'm currently being ruled over by 3 cats (Rafferty, Bodhi Rook & Yersinia Pestis), who I can mostly get not to chew on book covers. Lately, I'll read anything, though Science Fiction and Romance will always be on the bottom of the pile.

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“And if you say that’s because you lot barged into her home like a herd of mentally deficient sheep, I’m disowning all three of you.”

Bridgerton: The Duke and I (Daphne's Story) by Julia Quinn

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  Simon Bassett, Duke of Hastings, has returned to England after six years away. Sworn to never marry, he wants desperately to avoid the scheming mothers and their unmarried daughters. Daphne Bridgerton, the fourth of eight children and the eldest daughter, is tired of being the “good old chum” to all the eligible bachelors, or attracting all the wrong ones; just once, she’d like to be looked at as a possible marital option by someone she’d actually want. When they meet at a ball during […]

“This, I thought, was how the real power-play went: conversations in corners and gardens, nods, shrugs, inclinations of the head. But nothing in writing.”

Lamentation: A Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery by C.J. Sansom

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It’s been a year since Heartstone, and Matthew Shardlake’s life is going reasonably well. He has a new steward, a new Law clerk, and Jack and Tamasin are soon to welcome their second child. True, he hasn’t seen Queen Katherine Parr in that time, the religious needle has swung slightly more to the “punishing Protestants” side meaning he’s going to have to burn some of his favorite books, and he has to represent Lincoln’s Court at the burning of Anne Askew for heresy, but that’s […]

“I did not consent to your presence,” she said peevishly. “Please depart, and attempt your political assassination on someone else’s property.”

Ashes of Honor (Toby Daye #6) by Seanan McGuire

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It’s been a year since the events of One Salt Sea, Toby Daye is throwing herself into danger and figuring out an exit plan as she goes, and her friends and allies are worried that she’s going to get herself killed one of these days; so honestly, nothing has really changed from the first five books. So when Etienne, her liege’s seneschal, shows up asking for her help, Toby figures this is one more cliff to throw herself off of, and (unfortunately, quoting Cassandra Clare […]

“A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.”

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien

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It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.   By now, I think practically everyone has either read the book or seen the movies, hopefully both. (Full disclosure: I will judge heavily anyone who has only seen the movies; why would you do that to yourself?) The book, as is frequently the case, is loads better. No unnecessary romantic subplots, no characters who are dead making appearances, no characters showing up far too many years […]

“I was getting tired of being in an endless succession of things called “the fight of a lifetime.” Just once, I’d like to have the fight of a Tuesday afternoon.”

One Salt Sea by Seanan McGuire

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The night-haunts never lie. They could, if they wanted to, but they don’t really see the point. The truth is so much more dangerous than a lie. Life is starting to look up for Toby; she’s dating again, she’s taken on Quentin as her squire, she’s discovered she’s something called a Dochas Sidhe (more on that in a later book), May has moved in, and no one has tried to kill her in a while. Of course, because this is October Daye we’re talking about, […]

Can I Get Some Cooling Fairies?

A Fellowship of Bakers & Magic: Adenashire, Book One by J. Penner

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Who wants to be normal when you can be spectacular? In the heart of Adenashire, a world that is divided into those who have magic and therefore matter, and those who don’t, who matter far less, human baker Arleta Starstone works twice as hard to sell her baked goods, dreaming of stockpiling enough to open the bakery of her dreams. So, when Ervash, her orc neighbor (biggest fan, and with his husband Verdreth, Arleta’s erstwhile father figure) secretly enters her creations into the prestigious Langheim […]



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