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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I miss my books, and my armchair, and my garden. See, that’s where I belong, that’s home.

An Introvert’s Guide to Life and Love by Lauren Appelbaum

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CBR Bingo: ‘I’ I received this as an ARC from NetGalley, this hasn’t affected the contents of my review. I pretty much only decided to read An Introvert’s Guide to Life and Love by Lauren Appelbaum because it starts with an ‘I’ and I’ve really been struggling to find anything that fits that square for bingo. I didn’t know anything about the book, and I’d never heard of the author before. Mallory Rosen is a self-described “Gollum”—she works from home at her Seattle tech job, has […]

Are we the baddies?

Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh

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CBR Bingo: Citizen (the main character is pretty much the “ideal” citizen in her society) I read Emily Tesh’s The Incandescent a few months ago, and I enjoyed it and wanted to try the author’s other works, so I recently picked up Some Desperate Glory, her debut novel. Sometime in the future, Earth has been destroyed by alien technology. Some of the remaining humans inhabit Gaea Station, constructed of old warships, and form a militaristic society where children are born and raised almost solely with the goal […]

The title was the coolest thing about this book

The Shadow of What Was Lost by James Islington

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CBR Bingo: Border (characters have to sneak over several country borders, and there is also a threat of invasion due to the weakening of a magical barrier) I really enjoyed James Islington’s The Will of the Many when I read it a few years ago, and I have been eagerly awaiting the follow-up The Strength of the Few. I’ve had the author’s first series The Licanius Trilogy, which starts with The Shadow of What Was Lost, on my TBR for some time now (it’s been on my […]

“All hail wossname, who shall be king here, after”

Sourcery by Terry Pratchett

Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett

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CBR Bingo: School (Sourcery is set at the Unseen University, a college for wizards (although not much actual learning goes on)) CBR Bingo: Arts (I’m counting theatre as being artsy, a key component to Wyrd Sisters are actors and plays, and how they can impact public perception of events) I’d recently read the first three books in the Discworld series, and have decided to keep going in publication order, rather than breaking it up by sub-series. Sort of. I’ve read the Death novels too recently to want to re-read […]

It could be witches! Some evil witches!

Death on the Caldera by Emily Paxman

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CBR Bingo: Red I recently picked up Death on the Caldera, the debut novel by Emily Paxman, because the author is local to me and my bookstore had signed copies. I didn’t know much about it going in, but the cover was intriguing (don’t judge me, trains are cool, okay). Set in a world where the landscape is dominated by a volcano, and the ground around the eruption has certain magical properties, this is essentially a murder mystery after a train crash. The primary characters […]

I am Jack’s waste of paper

Jack Serpent by E. A. Field

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CBR Bingo: Black I picked up Jack Serpent because I liked the cover (you can’t really tell from the photo, but it’s super shiny) and the synopsis (it sounded like a monster huntery Witcher-vibes type story). Despite nothing in the title, cover, or synopsis indicating that this was to be the case, this reads like a typical bad YA romantasy title. I don’t have anything against either of those things, and in fact, some of my favourite stories are YA and/or romantasy books, but this wasn’t […]



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