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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Age of Assassins by R. J. Barker

Blood of Assassins by R. J. Barker

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  CBR Bingo: Borrowed (Age of Assassins—I picked up both of these books at a little free library, so I’m counting it) CBR Bingo: ‘B’ (Blood of Assassins) These two books should complete my first bingo card (yay!)   I’ve been meaning to read RJ Barker’s works for a while now but somehow have just never gotten around to it. His Tide Child trilogy has been recommended to me by multiple people, and it sounds like something I would like, but I ended up picking up his debut trilogy, […]

Thunder rolled… It rolled a six.

Pyramids by Terry Pratchett

Guards! Guards by Terry Pratchett

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CBR Bingo: Favourite (Pyramids is a new-to-me book in a favourite series, Discworld) CBR Bingo: ‘G’ (Guards! Guards!) Pyramids and Guards! Guards! are the latest in a series of reviews I’m doing of Terry Pratchett’s forty-books-plus Discworld series. They are the seventh and eighth books, respectively, and while Pyramids is a relative standalone (to my recollection, the only reoccurring character in this one was Death, and only briefly), Guards! Guards! is the first in a sub-series focussing on the characters of Ankh-Morpork’s Night Watch guardsmen. I haven’t read Pyramids […]

Thanks, Obama

The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson

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CBR Bingo: TBR I’ve owned The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson for at least a few years. I think I bought it because the front cover said, “One of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of the Year” and the premise sounded interesting. Somewhat disappointingly, I ended up DNFing this one at about the 30% mark, but I got enough of an impression of it to want to write a review. In the near future (which might now technically be the past, since I took […]

Life’s a Game

The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks

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CBR Bingo: Play I read a number of Iain M. Bank’s Culture novels about ten years ago and, while I remember enjoying them thoroughly, for whatever reason, I never ended up finishing the series. They’re technically all standalones, but I didn’t want to jump back in halfway through without having a strong recollection of the previous books, so decided to do a re-read. The Player of Games is technically the second book in the series, but from what I remembered (and from some other opinions I’ve […]

I read this so you don’t have to

The Bane Witch by Ava Morgyn

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Warning: I’m going to spoil the shit out of this book because I don’t want to subject anyone else to it. I don’t normally post truly negative reviews (at worst, my reviews are lukewarm-ish). Most of the time when I don’t like a book, I stop reading it, and usually, it’s because I’m bored (and I don’t usually have much to say beyond “I was bored”, which hardly justifies writing a full review). I wanted to quit this book so many times, but the masochistic […]

A spy thriller set in a fascinating post-climate-change-collapsed world

Notes from the Burning Age by Claire North

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CBR Bingo: ‘N’ I really enjoyed Claire North’s The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August when I read it last year, but, for whatever reason, I didn’t realize that she’d also written other books. I’ve been somewhat struggling to find appropriate books to review for the CBR Bingo “letter” squares, so when I saw Notes from the Burning Age on a recent trip to my local used bookstore, it both fit the ‘N’ square and looked intriguing. Set in a future where the effects of climate […]



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