Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Lives in the Great White North. No, more north than that. Keep going. Compelled to tell a story about how I decide to read every book I read.

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A Week for Pop Culture Exploration of Fascist Themes

Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins

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My library reservation for Suzanne Collins’ Sunrise on the Reaping, the lastest book in her Hunger Games collection, finally came in two days after I finished watching the remarkable second season of Andor. I have really enjoyed and thought about Collins’ novels over the years, so I knew what I was getting into, but that was a weighty few days of pop culture consumption. Sunrise on the Reaping takes the reader back to the 50th Hunger Games, the Quarter Quell we first heard about in […]

The Expanse just keeps getting bigger

Abaddon's Gate by James S.A. Corey

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I had friends recommend The Expanse tv series to me over the years, and I had trouble getting into it based of the first few episodes. I finally tried again last year, used my patience, and was HOOKED. I also read online that the book series was also great; I am generally able to separate and enjoy books from series/movies as two separate things (*cough* Wheel of Time fans *cough*), so decided to give the books a go as well. Abaddon’s Gate is book 4 […]

Where is an editor when you need one?

Wind and Truth by Brandon Sanderson

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I have quite enjoyed the Stormlight Archive series; Wind and Truth is the fifth in a 10 novel series. It is hard to summarize a book that sits right in the middle of a really planned out high fantasy series, but for folks who are not familiar, I will try. The series is set on a word called Roshar, and the background for everything is that the majority of the human population has been at war with another species for eons. Even within the humans, […]

Slightly out of place, in every way

The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley

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I saw a recommendation for Kaliane Bradley’s The Ministry of Time, and I got it from the interlibrary loan in amongst some verrrrryyyy long books (Why does nobody edit Brandon Sanderson?!?). I couldn’t contemplate bringing a 5lb book on the plane, so grabbed Bradley’s novel thinking it was the right length for a 3 day work trip. What happened, in the end, was me having to caution myself to slow down so I would have enough book to last the whole trip – this funny, […]

Not Murderbot, but still good

Witch King by Martha Wells

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I was first introduced to Martha Wells through the reviews of Emmalita – it still took me too long to get there, but once I started the series, I read each book in very quick succession. So, when I was travelling for work and ran out of book, I was so pleased to see Wells’ Witch King at my favourite bookstore. It was on sale! Hardcover! Reasonably sized for carry on! Our protagonist is Kaiiesteron, known as Kai, a demon whose spirit/soul lives in the […]

A lovely surprise from ElCicco!

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I am counting down the minutes until I go on Christmas vacation. MINUTES. And tonight I came home to a lovely Cannonball Book Exchange surprise. Two kinds of chocolates (one of which has already been sampled), Orbiter, and An Unkindness of Ghosts. All this, and a lovely card. I am so pleased and cannot wait to settle in and enjoy the generosity of ElCicco. Thank you!



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