Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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I'm Natalie and 2025 is my second year participating in cannonball read. I love reading, especially fantasy and science fiction books. I live on Vancouver Island, in Canada.

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Killers & Cotton Candy

Scythe & Sparrow by Brynne Weaver

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So, I read the first two books in Brynne Weaver’s Ruinous Love trilogy last year. I didn’t expect much from the first, Butcher & Blackbird, and ended up loving it. Naturally, I had great expectations for the sequel, Leather & Lark, (review here), and while I liked it, it didn’t quite live up to the standards of the former. The third and final book, Scythe & Sparrow, was released a few weeks ago, so I picked it up, but I did go into it with […]

All our yesterdays

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

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So, I’ve been travelling recently, and on Monday was stuck waiting for a flight in Miami airport for about 9 hours. I’d ran out of physical books to read, my devices were low on power, and I couldn’t find an outlet anywhere, so naturally, I headed to the books section of the nearest airport convenience store in search of entertainment (or at the very least, a mildly interesting distraction). Predictably, the selection was small (I don’t think I’ve ever seen a James Patterson novel outside […]

So I’ll tell you all the story about the joker and the thief in the night

The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner

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Megan Whalen Turner’s The Thief has been on my TBR for years, I’ve had multiple people recommend it, but I’ve only recently gotten around to reading it. Gen is a young thief in an Ancient-Greece-like world. At the beginning of the novel, he’s imprisoned, as a result of him publicly bragging that he can steal anything (and causing him to get caught after successfully stealing the king’s seal). The king’s magus (sort of a scholarly advisor) releases him from prison, with an agreement that he […]

There and Back Again: A Spaceship’s Tale

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

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I read Becky Chambers’ A Psalm for the Wild-Built and A Prayer for the Crown-Shy last year (two short novellas comprising the Monk & Robot series) and loved them, so her earlier Wayfarers series, starting with The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet has been on my to-be-read list for a while. We join the crew of the Wayfarer, a spaceship that’s on a job to travel to a far-off destination and essentially drop an anchor point for a wormhole to make future travel […]

Not the book I was expecting…

The Luminaries by Susan Dennard

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A few years ago, I watched a TV show called The Luminaries. I remember liking it, but don’t remember a ton about it, other than it was set in 19th century New Zealand and had Eva Green being all mysterious and witchy. I also knew it was based on a book, and, before I started reading it, believed that it was based on this book, The Luminaries, by Susan Dennard. However, shortly after starting, and noticing that it was set in modern-day America, realized that […]

Questions without answers

Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer

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I think I picked up Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer sometime around when the movie loosely based on it came out in 2018. For whatever reason, I didn’t read it then, but as it’s a short book I decided to read it a few days ago. The novel follows a team of women sent to investigate a strange area known only as Area X. Previous expeditions have occurred, but usually some weird misfortune happens to the participants (in one, members killed each other, in another, killed […]



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