Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Nart is an avid romance reader who dabbles in other stuff when she has the spoons. When she’s not reading she’s a bureaucrat both professionally and as an activist because she’s a masochist. (Learn more about this Cannonballer: Nart's Quick Questions interview.)

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When good intentions go very wrong

Indigenous Communities in Canada - Algonquin Nation by Heather C Hudak

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I stumbled across this at my local library and thought that I would likely benefit from having a basic introduction to specific Indigenous communities (these is a whole series of these!). It looked like it would make for a useful review for folks hoping to educate their kids about the communities they live near too. Indigenous communities are often politicized in materials written for adults, so I thought this cute, short book for elementary school aged kids might be a great way to strip those […]

“He needed a Rosetta stone for translating Rabble into Aristocracy and Back again.”

How the Marquess was Won by Julie Anne Long

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Instalment six in the Pennyroyal Green series, and involving zero Everseas or Redmonds! Plot: Phoebe is a graduate of and teacher at Miss Endicott’s Academy for Recalcitrant Girls in Pennyroyal Green, though she longs for more. Her imagination stalls out at what more might be though, given her limited experience and her bone deep fear of ending up where she started as an orphan in Six Dials. So instead, she reads the broadsheets, and fills her life with vicarious adventures. This is how she recognizes […]

“That we’re ‘Captain Dipshit and the Brainless Twit'”

Happily Never After by Lynn Painter

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A love story for sarcastic cynics. So obviously I loved it. Plot: Sophie was on the cusp of being promoted. Then she got engaged to the son of one of her coworkers, whose dad was also her father’s long-time employer. And then he cheated. So on the one hand, if she backs out of the wedding and humiliating the son, her dad’s is on the line. On the other hand, fuck that guy. Enter Max, who helps people who feel forced into a wedding they […]

“After all, someone as relaxed as he was did not require a long soak to become even more relaxed. It would have been redundant.”

Paladin's Faith by T Kingfisher

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We return to a world without the Saint of Steel, but with a lot of the god’s brooding former knights. Plot: Marguerite Florian, who folks might remember from her brief appearance in the first book, is in trouble. Well, she’s a spy, so she’s always in trouble, but this time it’s serious. Because her employer wants her dead. After two years of trying to sort this out herself, per her usual style, she realized that there was only one way to secure her safety. Destroy […]

“I am covered in the excrement of several looted American animals”

In Which Winnie Halifax is Utterly Ruined by Alexandra Vasti

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The last in the Halifax Hellions series. Plot: Winnie’s mother was a con woman who through various means was able to finance her life and the life of her daughter by stealing shit from the aristocracy. This never sat well with Winnie, so when she was 20, she broke off to set her own course. Being an impoverished commoner though, she did need to use a little of her mother’s ill gotten gains, and being a single woman trying to start a business in regency […]

“I have enclosed for you a picture of a man with the head of a pig. I leave you to wonder at its significance.”

In Which Matilda Halifax Learns the Value of Restraint by Alexandra Vasti

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The second novella in the Halifax Hellions series and another strong entry. Stuns me that Vasti gave these out for free, but what a way to whet our appetites for a full length novel. Plot: If you recall from the first novella, according to her sister Margo, Matilda had been basically abducted by an old man who had murdered his previous wife to be (forcibly?) married, then tortured at his distant Northern estate until death. Yikes. Now we get Matilda’s version. We find out that […]



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