Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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You should absolutely believe what happened to Lacey

You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey by Amber Ruffin and Lacey Lamar

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[Read as an audiobook from the public library] This is a book that I knew I was going to enjoy and also spend a fair amount of time going “Oh my god WHAT” at. I am never doubtful that racist things happen, but I am sometimes still surprised at just what kind of ignorance comes out of people’s mouths in public to other people. If you don’t know who Amber Ruffin is, please stop reading this and go educate yourself. Right now. She is a […]

Definitely not a romance story

The Siren by Tiffany Reisz

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[Read in ebook from public library] Content warnings ahoy. Hachi machi, y’all, this book gave me the sads. Not because it’s a bad book — this is a well-written book with interesting characters that I kept coming back to because I wanted to see what happened. But to call this a “challenging read” would be to gloss over about ten content warnings, some of which I didn’t even remotely expect. I picked this book up because The Rose, by the same author, is just a […]

Libris Mediocris

Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks

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*Sigh.* Folks. Before we get into this, the customary preamble. These things may seem unrelated at first, but hopefully they’ll make sense shortly enough. There’s a tossed-off line in Stella Gibbons’ excellent Cold Comfort Farm (the movie is also a scream if you haven’t seen it) where one of the characters, an irritating self-satisfied clod of a fellow, is working on a thesis which holds that all of the Brontes’ novels were actually written by their brother Branwell. The little-known film Titanic came out the winter after […]

What It Is to Be Human

Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers

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I’m going to assume that the reader of this review has already read the first two books in Chambers’ Wayfarer series (The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet and A Closed and Common Orbit). While there’s nothing specifically barring you from starting with this book, you’ll get a much better idea of the larger world if you start at the beginning. Well, I did it. I finished the series, despite really not wanting to. I hear that a new book is possibly on the way […]

A detective story you can actually (maybe) solve before the end.

The Tokyo Zodiac Murders by Soji Shimada

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This is another book I got from the recommendation section of I Don’t Even Own a Television. It is an admitted failing of mine that I haven’t read a whole lot of non-western fiction. We own more than a few untouched Haruki Murakami books. I’ve seen a fair amount of Korean and Chinese film, but that’s not at all the same thing. So probably the biggest hurdle I had to get over in reading this was getting past the frequent digressions into memories and emotions […]

A place to belong

A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers

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You guys, these books. I really, really liked The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet. It made me deliriously happy with the intricate character profiles, the worldbuilding, the way I felt like I was among friends almost from the start of the story. I didn’t want to leave the Wayfarer. And I knew the second book — this book — was going to do that, leave the Wayfarer, and journey off with Pepper and Blue to Port Coriol. And I’d met them already and […]



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