Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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I forgot these started so bro-y

Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey

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I’ve extrapolated previously about how much I love this series but going back to book one and there’s part of me that’s astonished I made it any further. The later books do a masterful job of shifting perspectives but for this first one we only get two – Holden and Miller – and with Holden being the milquetoastiest of all milquetoasts, Miller is the driving personality. And then he goes and falls in love with a dead girl he’s never met. The ick factor is […]

I am a purist

A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin

A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin

A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin

A Feast for Crows by George R. R. Martin

A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin

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Is it fair to do a single review for all five A Song of Ice and Fire novels? Probably not, but I reread the series basically as a single unit and can no longer tell what happened in which book, so here we go. I love these books – yes, all five. Yes, that includes A Feast for Crows – and am a staunch better-than-the-show purist. I get really annoying about it and my fiance has just learned to smile and nod and ever since I […]

It’s about sleeping, and it’s somehow exhausting

My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh

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I mean, I get that the unlikable narrator/main character was the point but oh god did I just want to sleep through this book myself and get it over with. This has one of the most fascinating book covers I have seen recently and yet it’s paired with one of the most deeply dull stories. Pass. I read ASKReviews’s review of this one a few weeks ago, so at least I was prepared for the disappointment. Basically, a disaffected, blonde, thin, pretty, rich girl (she […]

Way too long for only one note

The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah

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I went to see if any of you lovely people had reviewed this book yet and instead turned up the fact that this is the same author who wrote The Nightingale, another book I was sour on. Things are making sense now. I’d forgotten all about that book and I’m not too pleased to be reminded. The Great Alone is better, but not by much. So much like The Nightingale, this is a book about terrible things happening to good people in a world without gray areas. And it […]

I know it means he’s not working on Winds of Winter

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms by George R. R. Martin

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…I don’t care because I will take whatever A Song of Ice and Fire I can get. Even if it’s the side adventures of Dunk and Egg. Maybe especially if. No. I still want WoW more. But these help hold me over. I’m in the home stretch of my ASoIaF re-read and somehow had only ever read one of the side novels so I was absolutely delighted to get A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms in from the library (the wait for Fire & Blood is quite a bit longer). […]

So young and so talented!

Normal People by Sally Rooney

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This author is younger than I am. I mean, so is my author friend, but Sally Rooney was born in THE NINETIES and is this talented. Blown away. But that’s not about this book. Normal People is about Marianne and Connell, growing up in a small town in western (I believe) Ireland. They exist in two separate worlds that collide in one very specific place – her family home, where his mother works as a housekeeper. Outside of that, she is the quiet, weird, rich girl while […]



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