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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“Impossible things are really rough to do, you know.”

The Shattered Lens: Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians by Brandon Sanderson

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Like give a positive review of this book. By the fourth book, you should really know how you feel about the characters, and be invested in the plot; I don’t, and I’m not. Alcatraz just gets smarmier and more annoying each page, and the rest of the characters seem like they’re just walking through their parts, reading off lines to move the plot along. Not that most of them really come off as fully fleshed out characters anymore; they’re mostly named clothes hangers to hang […]

Will Trade Katana for Wedding Kimono (But Must You?)

The Golden Naginata: The Second of the Tomoe Gozen Saga by Jessica Amanda Salmonson

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This book was a slight letdown compared to the first one. In The Disfavored Hero, Tomoe Gozen was a strong, kickass lesbian female samurai who was living her life following the Bushido; in this one, she’s on the run from her father because he wants her to get married. Tomoe fights against this until she doesn’t, giving in to filial piety/familial duty becoming unfortunately a stereotypical submissive Japanese wife! And she’s happy about it; so happy that it becomes pretty much her entire personality. The […]

“A metaphor is a kind o’ lie to help people understand what’s true.”

Wintersmith: A Tiffany Aching Adventure by Terry Pratchett

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Wintermsith is the third book book in the Tiffany Aching series, which is set in the Discworld universe, but is geared towards children. Tiffany is a witch in training who has caught the attention of the Wintersmith, the personification of winter, which you can kind of tell from the name. But don’t imagine some older, mature fellow; he’s more like if Jack Frost from Rise of the Guardians had no idea how to be human. So on top of learning to be a witch, dealing […]

“The first time you share tea, you are a stranger. The second time you share tea, you are an honored guest. The third time you share tea, you become family.”

Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune

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Wallace Price doesn’t care if no one likes him; he’s efficient at his job and that’s all that matters. Social life, friends, family, loved ones? None of that is important. Until the day he drops dead, and his time to find any of those things runs out. Now that Hugo, a caring tea shop owner is offering to help Wallace find peace before passing over, Wallace might actually start to realize how much he has been missing. Even if the Manager, Hugo’s boss, has given […]

A Woman, her sword, and her honor. What else do you need?

The Disfavored Hero: Book One of the Tomoe Gozen Saga by Jessica Amanda Salmonson

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I love when I have had a book on my TBR list for years (15 in this instance), and I actually don’t regret finally picking it up. This was a book I enjoyed from beginning to end, and actually made me want to read the rest of the series. Inspired by a historical figure yet set in a fantastical version of Japan, The Disfavored Hero tells the story of Tomoe Gozen, a female samurai serving a local lord during the time of the Shogun. While […]

A wise man once said, “Any story, no matter how good, will sound really, really dumb when you shorten it to a few sentences.”

The Knights of Crystallia: Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians by Brandon Sanderson

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Alcatraz Smedry (anti)hero of the series, finally makes it the Free Kingdoms, a place safe from the clutches of the evil Librarians. Once there, he discovers that against all common sense, the rulers of the Free Kingdoms are planning a treaty with the Librarians, one of which happens to be his mother. Alcatraz and his intrepid family, friends, and random people newly introduced, must thwart the treaty, uncover a traitor in their midst, and figure out why Alcatraz’s father is completely unlikable. Can they do […]



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