Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Double Cannonballing with a good series-ender.

Subtle Blood (The Will Darling Adventures, #3) by K.J. Charles

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**30 Books in 30 Days** Book 23/30 To be honest, I think if (when) I read all three books in this series back to back in the future, I will bump up both books two and three from four to five stars. It has been top notch in all areas: romance, class examinations, mysteries, historical fiction set in the 1920s, books about friendship, books about secret agents and spies, suspense novels. Seriously, just in all the things this series sets out to do, it succeeds […]

Not her best work, in my opinion.

Parker Pyne Investigates by Agatha Christie

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**30 Books in 30 Days** Book 24/30 This review is going to be on the shorter side, because I don’t think I have much to say about this one. Mostly, it just wasn’t what I was expecting! Firstly, this is a short story collection, not a novel (like I thought). Parker Pyne is indeed an investigator of sorts, but not one like Hercule Poirot (like I thought), but one like I’ve never seen before. So, props to good old Agatha on that one for originality, […]

“The world is a book. Some words stand out from the page.”

Lucifer, Vol. 1: Devil in the Gateway by Mike Carey

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**30 Books in 30 Days** Book 22/30 I liked this, but I’m having trouble remembering what happened in it, and I only read it two or three days ago. I also haven’t quite yet caught what this story is *about*. Lucifer was one of my favorite parts of Sandman. What he did in that series was so audacious, it delighted me. I wanted to see how Mike Carey (and Peter Gross) would follow that up. This volume hasn’t really answered that for me yet, and […]

When I say gross, I mean nasty. Do not read this while eating.

Chew, Vol.1: Taster's Choice by John Layman

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**30 Books in 30 Days** Book 21/30 Haha, what a weird, gross book. I liked it. I mean it, if you can’t handle seriously nasty things (mostly involving tasting and smelling, and bodily fluids, and gore) stay away from here. If you’ve got a strong stomach and appreciate a wacky premise, this might be for you. Basically, Tony Chu is a cop, who is a cibopath, meaning he can sense the histories of what he eats. This basically means all he eats is beets in […]

“How can this be happening? You do so much yoga.” #CBRBINGO – Shelfie

The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green

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**30 Books in 30 Days** Book 20/30 This is my favorite thing John Green has written. I loved it so much I let it start getting me behind in reviews again. I kind of hope he never goes back to writing fiction. (In fact, in the introduction to this book he expresses the sentiment that he might not! I don’t have the book with me right now to reference, but he talks briefly about his frustration with readers confusing him with his characters, and how […]

The best book in this series so far.

The Devil Comes Courting (The Worth Saga, #4) by Courtney Milan

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**30 Books in 30 Days** Book 19/30 The wait was incredibly worth it on this one. We waited years, and this is by far the best full novel in this series (the novella The Pursuit Of . . . is wonderful, too). First of all, according to the author’s notes of this book, Courtney Milan is literally the reason there is a dinosaur emoji. Second of all, she actually created the Chinese telegraphic code in the book (the theory of it, anyway). Like, whAt? (Those […]



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