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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“Politics is like dice: the better the player, the worse the man”

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

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It’s 1545 and Henry VII has gotten England into a war with France; seeing as it’s Tudor-Era England, war with France, Spain, Scotland, or England itself is not really that surprising. It looks like the French will land their invasion force at Portsmouth. Too bad that Portsmouth is around the area Matthew Shardlake is being sent by his patron, Queen Catherine Parr. A servant in Parr’s former household has come to the Queen for assistance; the servant’s son has allegedly killed himself after swearing out […]

“After they were both done, the pile of knives and guns on the coffee table looked like they’d cleaned out an armory. “I think we have a problem, Dmitri.”

Archangel's Blade: A Guild Hunter Novel #4 by Nalini Singh

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I suppose I have to admit that I’m starting to be fine with certain Romance novels (as long as they’re either lesbian Regency-Era, gay Napoleonic Wars-Era, or supernaturally bent), as this series is kind of enjoyable in a light, breezy, and “not taxing my brain to read” kind of way. The big third-act “gasp-worthy” reveal was…pretty obvious from maybe twenty pages in; you could tell it was just going to be that kind of book. It was also so nice (meant only slightly sarcastically) that […]

“All I wanted to do was come home, because without you, I don’t have a home.”

Wolfsong: A Green Creek Novel (Book One) by TJ Klune

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Wolfsong is the fourth book by TJ Klune I’ve read (the others being Under the Whispering Door, The House in the Cerulean Sea, and Somewhere Beyond the Sea), and it’s the first that I’m not one hundred-percent sure what I think of it. It is also not exactly the book that was described on the back of the book; not really a bad thing, I just don’t quite understand why publishing companies have been doing this lately. The writing is a little staccato (though I […]

“No other bosses but mine and my opponents’ can have your soul jerked out of your body and sent to the deepest fiery pits to suffer for eternity. Unless you work for Walmart.”

The Dirty Streets of Heaven by Tad Williams

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Not a big fan of this book. It was written like a mashup of the Johnny Dollar radio show (which is where I think Tad Williams got the idea to name the main character “Bobby Dollar”) and the Kolchak tv series. Very Sam Spade, hardboiled detective, old film noir, complete with gangsters, dames, booze, shoot-outs, and double crosses; heck, it even has a golden stand-in for the Maltese Falcon. The big change is that instead of detectives, cops, and gangsters, you have angels and demons, […]

“Remember what you must do when they undervalue you, when they think your softness is your weakness, when they treat your kindness like it is their advantage. You awaken every dragon, every wolf, every monster that sleeps inside of you and you remind them what hell looks like when it wears the skin of a gentle human.”

wild embers: poems of rebellion, fire, and beauty by Nikita Gill

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I became interested in Nikita Gill’s poetry when I read an excerpt from her poem “This is Not A Love Poem” and wanted to pick up the book that contained it; this is not that book. That book is The Girl and the Goddess, which I still have to pick up sometime. Thankfully I enjoy Gill’s poetry on the whole. I started out bitterly resenting that this was the wrong book because that meant I would have to buy another of her books; now I […]

“The right way isn’t the only way.”

Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

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I am late getting into this series; for some reason I never picked it up before. Then I thought why not see what everyone is talking about; and to be honest I started out not understanding what all the hype was about, especially the first chapter. But by the time I was a quarter of the way through, hot darn, could I see it. Violet and Xaden’s bickering and subsequent whatever-you’d-define-it-as is my trope weakness (hello shades of Jude and Cardan or Toby and Tybalt!)  […]



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