Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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The only reason I read so much is because Cannonball Read has gamified reading and because I hate losing. Give me a fantasy novel with a unique magical system, and I'm happy. (Learn more about this Cannonballer: Mobius_Walker's Quick Questions interview.)

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A quiet book with a powerful story of connection and survival

Burial Rites by Hannah Kent

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This was the second book that the marvelous and generous faintingviolet got for me last year during the Holiday Book Exchange. This book is outside of what I usually pick up to read, but I’m thankful that I gave it a chance. Agnes Magnusdottir has been convicted of murder and sentenced to die in the early 1800s of Iceland. While she awaits her execution she is sent to live with a district official and his family. There’s his wife Margret, a very sick woman who […]

Okay, you’re almost all villains. No ‘if’.

If We Were Villains by M L Rio

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Oliver is in his fourth and final year of his program at Dellecher Conservatory for the Fine Arts. He and his classmates have been studying Shakespeare together since day one at Dellecher, and they are all at their breaking point from the intense program and pressure of their coursework. There’s Richard, larger than life  antagonist whose intensity is thrilling to watch on stage but terrifying to live next to. There’s Meredith, the sexy vixen  that everyone wants to be or be with. Filippa, a woman […]

Branching out for my final CBR13 review, and a brief summary of my CBR year

In Too Deep by Daryl Banner

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Jonah works a job that is sucking the life out of him in Houston. He works with his best friend Rico and roommate, but that isn’t enough to make his life enjoyable. Jonah and Rico plan a weekend getaway to a fictional Texas beach town to escape the monotony of their lives by having a weekend that would make Dionysus blanche. Their plan is to drink too much, soak up the sun, and find multiple boys to have some fun with for just the weekend. […]

Down among a bait and switch

Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seannan Maguire

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This book explores the origin story of Jack and Jill, twin sisters from Every Heart a Doorway. The novella starts from pre-birth all the way through Jack and Jill finding and then fleeing The Moors. Along the way we meet the worst parents in the world who didn’t want children but wanted a perfect photograph of children; The Master, a vampire who rules the Moors; Dr. Bleak, mad scientist who pushes the boundaries of science going so far as to raise the dead; and many of […]

I wanted to like this one so bad!

The Liar's Dictionary by Eley Williams

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Mallory is a lowly intern at Swansby’s Encyclodpaedic Dictionary in present day. Her main job is to answer the phone and be berated by some anonymous troll who is upset that dictionary definitions are changing. Specifically, the definition of marriage. Tension at work is compounded by the fact that Mallory herself is gay and not out, and this troll has now called in a bomb threat. Oh, and she’s just been tasked with going through an entire encyclopedia from the 1920s and finding all of the […]

Pierce absolutely sticks the landing

Shatterglass by Tamora Pierce

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So concludes The Circle Opens Series, and a what a way to finish the series! Tris Chandler and her teacher Niko Goldeye are travelling just like the rest of the young yet extraordinarily powerful mages from Winding Circle. They make their way to the South to a Tharios. Tharios is a Greek/Mediterranean inspired town with a horrible and dehumanizing caste system added on. In Tharios, Niko attends a conference on vision magic, and Tris stumbles upon an immigrant glass blower, Keth, who isn’t in control […]



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