Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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An amazing new normal

Ms. Marvel Volume 1: No Normal by G. Willow Wilson

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When my husband buys me comic books, he (almost) always gets me the women-centered books, so a good chunk of our collective collection is given over to Jessica Jones, Spider Gwen, Captain Marvel, and, of course, Ms. Marvel (the exception of mine being a hardcover collection of the side stories from the Age of Apocalypse storyline which I ADORE). When I was looking for something to match my “Illustrated” Bingo square, I didn’t have to look far. One of the many great things about the new Ms. Marvel storyline is how […]

How I met your (1940s) father

City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert

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I never actually did read or watch Eat, Pray, Love so my disdain for the work of Elizabeth Gilbert was purely by cultural osmosis. I can’t say City of Girls did much to elevate her for me, though. It wasn’t bad, but neither was it good. It just kind of … was. The novel is narrated as a confessional of sorts, an older woman telling a younger woman the story of how she met her father so the whole meat of the story is in extended flashbacks. […]

Life is too short for books you don’t want to read

Wicked by Gregory Maguire

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There can come a time when a book is a chore and let’s be real – I’m three weeks out from my wedding, I have enough goddamn chores. I hadn’t gotten quite halfway through when I consciously uncoupled myself from this book and I have no real desire to go back and finish it in the week I have remaining on my library loan. For my Retelling bingo square, I revisited a book I didn’t much care for the first time around either. I was […]

I’ll need a round two

Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James

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Compare anything to Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice and Fire and you’ve pretty much guaranteed I will jump right on it so when I saw Black Leopard, Red Wolf being teased as “African Game of Thrones” right on my hold list it went. But I’m going to need at least one more pass at this because I just couldn’t quite find my way through it. It was like I could never quite find my entry point, like I was just lost and wandering at the gates. I […]

I both love and can’t handle mysteries

The Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware

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Confession time: I crave spoilers. Crave. Especially in any kind of mystery “oh my god what’s going to happen next” type book I just cannot help myself and I go spoiler-diving. My Google history is full of me looking for spoilers (and my fiance takes my phone when we watch mystery/thriller movies because I am 100% on the film’s Wikipedia page). So yes. I made it about a hundred pages in before I went trolling the internet for spoilers. I found them. Of course I found […]

Stay with me – what if the library was evil?

Ink and Bone by Rachel Caine

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This is my reread of the series (I think the last one just came out?) and while it doesn’t hold up quite as well as I remembered, I’d set the bar on my recollection pretty darn high. The Great Library is a pretty awesome series and one I hope more people read so we can talk about it. In a setting of alternate-history-but-with-magic, the library of Alexandria now controls all knowledge. Essentially all books and information are delivered by magical eReaders and physical books (theoretically) exist […]



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