Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Even better the second time around

Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson

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So at the beginning of the pandemic when I first discovered Booktube (actually, when I found 2 people who talked about books on YouTube and didn’t yet know it was a thing), I noticed how both of them loved this completely random guy, but I didn’t know if I’d like fantasy. I don’t know why I thought it was supposed to be such an intimidating genre, it was just not what I’d been used to reading. Anyway,  Emily Fox suggested to start with Warbreaker, since […]

A Nutcracker retelling, but still for ballet lovers

Midnight in Everwood by M.A. Kuzniar

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This book brought some very conflicting emotions in me. While marketed as “The Nutcracker for adults”, it still read very much like a children’s book, and I mean that not as a bad thing, just that my expectations skewed my view of the book. But let’s be honest: this was a cover read. I desperately wanted to buy it when I saw the hardcover in Waterstones because it was just SO beautiful, but ended up getting the audiobook from the library instead, which I think […]

Calling it a warm hug is still the best description I’ve heard of this book

The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune

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This book has been recommended to me a lot. The last of which earlier this month when I faced the fear and anxiety that mark the start of a reading slump. Nothing I picked up was sticking. Nothing made me want to read, and someone told me to push through with this, which I had on hold from the library. And it was just what I needed. This book has been described to me repeatedly as a warm hug, and I am going to have […]

Perhaps the best book I’ve ever read on Feminism

Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall

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I feel very confident in saying this book is going to be the best book I read in January. It was absolutely wonderful and I have devoured it. I started listening to it one evening, and when I next looked at the clock 6 hours had passed, it was 3 in the morning and the book was over. This is high praise, especially for non-fiction titles. Mikki Kendall takes the time in this book to break down in clear essays some of deeper issues of […]

A time-bending locked room mystery

The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

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This book has a really fascinating concept, which was, in my opinion, fairly well executed. It takes the concept of an Agatha Christie-style locked room mystery and spins it on its head, by making our protagonist live through the same day over and over, but in the bodies of different characters, and having to solve the mystery of Evelyn Hardcastle’s death, which will have happened at the end of the evening. This is a very mild spoiler, that is revealed in the synopsis in Goodreads […]

New year, already behind in reviews… =|

Mrs. England by Stacey Halls

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So it’s January and I’m already 6 reviews behind… but rather than drowning in despair, I’m deleting from my memory the 20+ books from 2021 I never reviewed and focusing on the 6 I’ve read so far this year. I have to start somewhere, right? So I’m starting with one of the books I got from the lovely LanierHgts in the Cannonball Book Exchange: Mrs. England by Stacey Halls. Thank you again!! 🙂 I have to say this was never a book I would have […]



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