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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Quoth the raven, “This book quotes me far too much”

Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins

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CBR Bingo: Purple If you’d asked me six months ago if another Hunger Games prequel was necessary, I’d have said no. I read the original trilogy around the time that they came out and fully enjoyed them but haven’t re-read them since. I did watch the movie of The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes and had mixed feelings (the earlier timeline was interesting, but I didn’t really care for Snow as a protagonist) so didn’t end up reading the novel. But enough people whose opinions I […]

Oh, let me have just a little bit of peril?

Perilous Times by Thomas D. Lee

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CBR Bingo: Review When deciding what book to read next, I often read reviews of the book to see what I’m getting myself into. What’s somewhat interesting about this one is that it was actually a negative review that convinced me to read it. One particular reviewer didn’t like the book because it contained “so much climate activism”, “brief meat shaming”, “transgender characters”, and “reverse racism”, which was only successful in making me want to read it. Perilous Times by Thomas D. Lee is an Arthurian […]

Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu

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CBR Bingo: Family For a short period during Covid restrictions, my municipality allowed stores to be open, but only if they were outdoors. A local bookstore had a bunch of outdoor sales at the time, and since I was bored and running out of things to do and places to go, a friend and I used to visit on a weekly basis and get a dopamine hit from finding cheap books. All that is to say, almost five years later, I still have a huge backlog […]

Slowly walking down the hall, faster than a cannonball

Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett

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CBR Bingo: Green (also my very first Cannonball, yay?) After reading (and reviewing) the first two books in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series (The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic), I decided to keep going in chronological order. I’ve read (and loved) many of the series’ novels previously, but I’ve done it in a rather piecemeal fashion (I’ve completed the Death and City Watch subseries, as well as a smattering of other books). The third (overall) book in the series is Equal Rites, and is the […]

Dystopia Now

Radicalized by Cory Doctorow

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CBR Bingo: White I picked up Radicalized a short time after it was published in 2019, fully intending to read it, but for various reasons never got around to it. I’ve read some of Cory Doctorow’s work before, both full length novels and shorter essays. I think he usually has really good ideas, but these don’t always translate well into stories, where his characters often feel like they are lecturing the reader. Radicalized isn’t a novel, but a collection of four short stories (I think? I’m […]

Inside the mind of madness

The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks

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I love Iain Banks’ Science Fiction Culture novels, so at some point in the past, I picked up his debut novel The Wasp Factory, released in 1984. It’s not my usual genre (sort of a psychological horror, I think? It’s somewhat hard to pin down), so it’s languished on my shelves for quite some time. I’ve been making a concerted effort to cut down on my physical TBR this year (down to 300ish from 400ish at the beginning of January!) and this is a short […]



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