Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Disney World lover. Chewbacca hugger. Reader of books. Writer of words. (Learn more about this Cannonballer: Leedock's Quick Questions interview.)

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I think death must be an absolute triumph.

Gideon The Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

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CBR15 PASSPORT (Stamp #6: Books recommended by friends. Namely ALL of you.) When Cannonballers can’t shut up about a book, you read it. I’d like to say I’m sorry it took me so long to read it, but…nope. ‘Cause I have the opportunity to read the other two books in this trilogy without waiting for them to be published. Hee hee! Yikes! You guys were not wrong about this one. In the last year or so I have found my way back to science fiction and […]

It’s rather a lot to tell. But I suppose I should start with the parrot.

A Restless Truth by Freya Marske

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CBR15PASSPORT (Stamp #4: Books from different countries. Do international waters count? If not, written by an Australian.) This is the second book of the Last Binding Series. If you haven’t read it yet, by all means read the first in the series that I reviewed here: A Marvellous Light. It’s a surprisingly fresh take on the well-worn “magic is real” carpet set in the early 1900s. Spoilers abound if you haven’t read the first book. In the aftermath of Robyn and Edwin’s discovery that snobby magical aristocrats are conspiring […]

We are women without a voice…We are women out of time and place, without even the language of the country we reside in.

Women Talking by Miriam Toew

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CBR15PASSPORT (Stamp #3: Books from different countries. Set in Bolivia about a Mennonite community written by a Canadian.) This book is a lot. Whatever triggers you have will be triggered. Toew’s novel is based on a real-life series of sexual assaults that occurred at a Mennonite colony in Bolivia in 2005. The victims ranged in age from 3 to 65 and the assailants were their friends and family members. Drugged with animal tranquilizers, the women would wake bloodied and bruised with no recollection of what had taken […]

Because when women understand chemistry, they begin to understand how things work.

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

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CBR15PASSPORT (Stamp #2: Books recommended by friends. Friends, grocery store clerks, Cannonballers, everyone who has ever read it….) Everyone on the planet has probably read this book already. Many of you reviewed it. It took me forever to actually get to it myself. And I have reasons. So, this will mostly be a review (Can I call it a review? I’m going to call it a review.) about why it took me so long to read a book that hit pretty much all of my buttons. A […]

He had taken in the country, and in his eyes and his mind it had been changed, marked by his own individuality, and made part of him.

Out of Africa by Isak Denison

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CBR15PASSPORT (Stamp #1: Books from different countries. In between a lot of privileged nonsense, it is a love letter to Africa.)After reading Paula McClain’s Circling The Sun last year, I was not finished with the characters. So, I picked up this book to learn a little more about the real-life folks that inspired that historical fiction. This is a classic that I had never read, made into a famous movie, that I have never seen. Well trod territory here, but I’ll give it a go. A Danish […]

For I had seen with startling clarity that the two are connected, the fall of New Bethany and the rise of Disney’s Magic Kingdom.

The Magic Kingdom by Russell Banks

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Closing out CBR14 with a whimper, not a bang, folks. This is one of those books that I’m sure will get rave reviews. There are probably countless deep dives out there about how this book is an indictment of capitalism. And it is. It is about a lot of relevant things, but it’s also very boring. The story of a boy who grew into adulthood within various utopian societies throughout the United States should be interesting at least. But it isn’t. I’m going to blame […]



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