Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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You know what you’re getting but stick it out anyway

The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

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It took me more than a little bit to really feel like I was into The Testaments but once I was in I was all the way in. I put it down to the format – I didn’t realize from the onset that I was going to get this books from three different perspectives, plus one of those perspectives is told in two different time periods. It’s a lot to get your head around organizationally, but when I did, I was very happy I’d stuck with […]

A necessary and uncomfortable read

Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson

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This one felt a little too real to categorize as “Fiction” but the book is marketed as a novel so I guess this is right? It’s a small book, a quick visit into a life, with pretty significant staying power. Another Brooklyn is the story of a young woman named August returning as an adult to her adolescent home of Brooklyn (I use the word adolescent because it differs from her childhood home in Tennessee, but also a large focus of the book is on […]

Finishing School Arya, the later years

Grey Sister by Mark Lawrence

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Once again I have fallen a couple of books behind so please bear with me. Grey Sister, the second in Mark Lawrence’s Book of the Ancestor trilogy, doesn’t hold up quite as well as its predecessor but that bar was so damn high my arms are shaking trying to hold it up. Being “less good” then Red Sister still puts it miles above a lot of the other dreck I’ve suffered through this year. Anyway, book two pulls us a little further outside the Convent of Sweet Mercy as […]

Underwhelming young adult

Wilder Girls by Rory Power

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I’m way behind on my reviews and this book wasn’t terribly memorable so please bear with me while I try to weasel 250 words out of it. Wilder Girls has an absolutely gorgeous cover but if you try to judge the book by it, prepare to be woefully disappointed. It’s not that it’s bad, it’s just blah. Mercifully free of flashbacks, this book takes place at a girls’ boarding school on an island off the coast of Maine (I think, I’m pretty sure it’s Maine). A […]

Okay I love short stories now

How Long Till Black Future Month by N.K. Jemisin

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It really has taken me this long to get short stories so god bless my library because I never would have gotten here without it. I’d been anti-short story because I missed the novel-length follow through on plots or people or places, but I’m now pro-short story because I can pick up a book at any time, read a chapter, and then put it away for however long I want. Not that I’d want to do that with this book because Jemisin is like GRRM for me […]

I found it somehow both infuriating and forgetable?

Fleishman Is In Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

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I know that Fleishman Is In Trouble is mostly set from the primary male character’s point of view to demonstrate that he’s a jackass. He doesn’t see it, because he’s not terribly self aware, but we’re in his head so we do. It’s kind of like when we start getting Cersei Lannister POV chapters. Toby Fleishman doesn’t realize it, but he’s a dick. And I appreciate that. I enjoy the Cersei chapters precisely because we get to see from her perspective how she doesn’t see she’s […]



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