Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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“Knowledge wasn’t always power. Sometimes it was crippling.”

The Nature of the Beast (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #11) by Louise Penny

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This wasn’t what I was expecting, but I ended up having a pleasant enough time of it. The blurb makes it seem like it’s going to be all about a serial killer, but he’s really more of a tertiary concern throughout. Mostly, this book is about the murder of Laurent Lepage, nine years old, and what his death uncovers hiding in the woods behind Three Pines. Gamache and Reine-Marie have both retired to Three Pines, and Lacoste is now the acting head of homicide, with […]

This book is Too Much but I still liked it.

The Memory of Souls (A Chorus of Dragons, #3) by Jenn Lyons

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“My brain hurrrts.” Is what I wrote immediately upon finishing this book. I tell you what, there have rarely been series that I feel such weird conflicting thoughts over. I was super peeved at the beginning of this book, getting myself all worked up at how annoyed I was, and then I went and started having a good time with it. Bottom line: This series’ worldbuilding very often gets in the way of it being an enjoyable book to read. There is just WAY too […]

The cover artist more than earned her money on this one. Also I need to buy a copy and read it again.

Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade

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Thanks to Netgalley and Avon for the Advanced Reader’s Copy. It hasn’t affected the content of my review. Oh boy, I was so excited when I learned the Brienne/Jaime fandom from Game of Thrones was the main inspiration behind this book. I was already excited about a book centered on a fanfic writer who unbeknownst to her has become good friends with the actor who plays her fictional muse, because he writes fic too, and that just put me over the edge. In hindsight, I […]

“May your Paths be safe, your Floors unbroken and may the House fill your eyes with Beauty.”

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

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I actually read this back in September but let it fall through the cracks, and haven’t rated or reviewed it until now. Part of me also just wanted to sit with it, alone, and see what happened. I will say that I was verrrry close to giving this five stars. I was thoroughly charmed while reading it, very quickly began feeling a deep, affectionate love for Piranesi, and felt weird whenever I put the book back down. It kept pulling me back, and I was […]

“Of course it doesn’t make sense—what business do you have expecting things to make sense?”

Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh

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She has leaned into it. All of it. I have been on an existential journey. I read this whole thing last night after I got home from work. My one complaint about it that I have right now is that hardcover is the wrong format for this book. My wrists hurt! It’s so heavy! I mean, it’s a beautiful book, but at points genuinely physically hard to read. I imagine if I had some sort of tablet or color Kindle that would be ideal. If […]

Big, stinky dog living under porch with a suitcase full of $400k and explosives.

The Drifter (Peter Ash, #1) by Nicholas Petrie

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This book was a gift I got from the CBR Book Exchange a couple years ago (thanks again, Jenny S!), and I just never got around to reading it because crime thrillers with hyper-masculine main characters and lots of shoot-’em up violence aren’t really my thing. I’m glad I gave it a shot, because although this book fits comfortably in that genre, I found the lead character Peter Ash, a veteran of the US Marine Corps, to be sensitively portrayed, and the plot itself had […]



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