Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Recursion by Blake Crouch

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I didn’t have terribly high hopes going into this one. The summary immediately namedrops his previous book, Dark Matter, which I read and came away from utterly bored but the things we do for CBR Bingo, yeah? So consider me pleasantly surprised here! It even feels like a genuinely new take on [redacted for spoiler]. Sorry, I’m censoring myself. I went back to that same summary and realized they don’t actually give away the matter at the heart of this book so you know, I won’t […]

It’s not them, it’s me

The Right Swipe by Alisha Rai

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I just don’t like romance novels and that’s the long and short of it. Secondhand embarrassment and awkwardness makes me cringe so hard I turtle right into my t-shirt and these kind of horrifying miscommunications are a feature, not a bug, when it comes to romance novels. It’s the “wait, no, I mean, if you just, c’mon, PLEASE” that makes me want to die. Granted, I haven’t read many romance novels, but between Alisha Rai and Helen Hoang, this kind of scenario seems to be […]

A classic for a reason!

A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

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I was kind of quietly dreading this one, mostly because my last year’s bingo classic was such a flop for me. Call me pleasantly surprised, though – I genuinely enjoyed this! I’d actually never read a Sherlock Holmes book (though I did own the Wishbone version of Hound of the Baskervilles on VHS) and had always kind of assumed that modern adaptations (Guy Ritchie, Steven Moffat) had taken creative liberties with an older character. Nope! Those are some OG Sherlock brass balls. I clearly didn’t read this […]

Targaryen History 101

Fire & Blood by George R. R. Martin

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Look, I am ride or die A Song of Ice and Fire fan and not even what is effectively the equivalent of a Westerosi history textbook can stop me. Plus so much of what I love about the series is the depth of the lore and the attention to detail and the inner workings of a complex society so this was actually pretty much my happy place, once I learned to tell the players apart. There are multiple Aegons alive at the same time, it gets […]

I don’t recommend reading them together

Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

Women Talking by Miriam Toews

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Sometimes when I’m reading a book that is particularly tough, I’ll give my brain a break by switching to a different book every couple of chapters. This strategy quickly falls apart when one book is Just Mercy and the other is Women Talking, they kind of just egg each other on in the downward emotional spiral. Just Mercy is Bryan Stevenson’s memoir of the years he has spent as a pro bono death row lawyer in Alabama where they rival Texas in their enthusiasm for state-sponsored murder. I’m […]

The best opening line since The Martian

Red Sister by Mark Lawrence

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“It is important, when killing a nun, to ensure that you bring an army of sufficient size.” Seriously, y’all, read that and tell me you don’t want to devour this book whole because that how how Red Sister starts. It’s been YEARS since an opening line hooked me like this and I am still completely shook. Goddamn that’s good. Okay. On to the meat of the book, because it does not disappoint. Red Sister takes place in a world that exists between two encroaching sheets of ice. […]



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