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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I just couldn’t connect with this despite enjoying the author’s previous works

The Raven Spell by Luanne G. Smith

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BINGO – Gaslight Sisters Edwina and Mary Blackwood have to move around quite a bit. Any time their neighbors catch wind of what they really are, they must move. Witches aren’t the most tolerated group of people in Victorian England (hence the gaslight). Edwina has the innate ability to find shiny objects and her sister Mary can capture the memories of morals which she only tries to do right before they pass on. Unfortunately Mary accidentally took the memories of a detective who was not […]

Binti’s internal struggle drives another addition in the Binti-universe cut short

Binti: Home by Nnedi Okorafor

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BINGO – Elephant After the whirlwind events of the first novella. Binti decides that she needs to go home. She wants to go on the pilgrimage that all young women go on to take their place in their community. She and Okwu, her Meduse friend, get special permission to go back to Earth as special envoys. They return to Earth in peace despite the war and animosity between the Meduse and Khoush. Things immediately fall apart when Okwu arrives and Binti must do what she […]

Grief and Hope – the human experience

How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu

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BINGO – New This is going to be a difficult book to summarize because I would not consider it a novel. It’s closer to a collection of short stories, but that’s not quite right either. It’s something in between. There’s a long form improv format in which the audience sees a scene with Person A and Person B. Something in that scene sparks an idea for a scene tangentially connected between Person B and Person C. Then a connected scene between Person C and D, […]

When do clones become people?

The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey

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BINGO – Scandal Evelyn, famed geneticist and ground-breaking scientist, discovers that her husband is leaving her for– well, her. A clone of her at least named Martine that her ex-husband created using her own research. A clone that should just be a tool used for a specific purpose and not something that should be treated like a human being. And yet, Martine the clone exists and operates in the world as a fully formed person, and Martine the clone has done something else that shouldn’t […]

Excellent world building that felt a little cut short

Binti by Nnedi Okorafor

Binti: Sacred Fire by Nnedi Okorafor

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BINGO – Star Binti runs away from her home, her family, her people, and even her planet to attend school. She is hesitant to leave even though she knows there are incredible opportunities waiting for her at Oomza University. With only a jar of otjize, a clay mixture from her community that she rubs over all of her skin and hair, her edan, a piece of ancient technology she discovered in the desert, and her nearly magical ability to see and grab mathematical equations, Binti […]

Warrior frogs apparently isn’t enough to be interesting

Kulipari #1 by Trevor Pryce

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BINGO – Shadow Burnu is a member of the Kulipari, an elite group of frog warriors. He is tasked with finding and securing a set of scrolls that will hopefully give the frogs that advantage over their years long conflict with the reptiles. His goal is to sneak around using stealth to gather information about the scroll’s whereabouts as per his training, but that plan is quickly thwarted. The story utilizes alternating time jumps between the past when Burnu is training with his cohort of […]



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