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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Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett

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Emily Wilde, Cambridge professor, needs to travel to the small village of Hrafnsvik in Iceland to compile additional folk legends to present at the Folklorist Conference soon to be happening in Paris. This is incredibly difficult for her, as she prefers her books and the company of her dog, Shadow, to actually interacting with anyone. The situation is worsened upon the arrival of her colleague/friend/rival Wendell Bambleby, whose easy charm with the locals threatens her chance to show him up once and for all. However, […]

Or You Could Try Talking Sometime?

The Perils of Lady Catherine de Bourgh: A Mr. Darcy & Miss Tilney Mystery by Claudia Gray

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Claudia Gray has written a series of murder mysteries set in Jane Austen’s Regency England, populated with characters from her most well-known books. The two main characters, however are OCs; Jonathan Darcy, the son of Fitzwilliam Darcy and Elizabeth Bennett (of Pride and Prejudice fame) and Juliet Tilney, daughter of Catherine Morland and Henry Tilney (of Northanger Abbey). Jonathan and Juliet keep stumbling into situations involving murders, and they are the only two truly capable of solving them. In this, the third book of the […]

“We have tried you good people of the public and we have found you wanting”

Triangle: The Fire that Changed America by David von Drehle

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Apparently I grew up with a very abnormal childhood. I think I was about 7 or 8 the first time I heard of Rose Schneiderman and her fiery speech condemning the public of New York in a eulogy to the 147 lives lost in the Triangle Waist Factory fire of March 25th, 1911. Workers’ strikes were something that I read quite a few books on. My idols were Mary Jones, Rose Schneiderman, Emma Goldman. And then I read this book, and I discover that someone […]

Well that was a thing

Clear: a novel by Carys Davies

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I have to love when a book goes exactly where you thought it was going from the synopsis, and then goes somewhere you never even considered. Clear is very much that book. It’s set during the Scottish Clearances of the 19th century, when farmers were shuffled off the land they rented so that the landowners could make more money out of crops or livestock. John, a minister who has quit his church to help find a new one and thus has monetary issues, has been […]

Where’s The Abyss When You Need It?

Murder on Canvas by Aaron Ben-Shahar

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Normally, I like reading. Curling up with a book and a strong cup of tea is how I like to end my days usually. Reading makes me happy. This book, however, made me regret not only learning how to read, but that there are light sources in the world that I can read by. My mother once hurled a book across a room she was so disgusted by it; I want to hurl this one into the sun, a black hole, or the abyss, whichever […]



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