Cannonball Read 17

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Or, The Cheeto-Driven Life of Crows

Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton

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S.T. the crow (full name Shit Turd) realizes something is deeply wrong with his human, Big Jim, when Jim’s eyeball falls straight out of his head and lands on the ground. Things only get worse from there. The illness affecting Big Jim seems to have struck everyone else in Seattle too, and it’s turned all those MoFos (what Big Jim and S.T. call humans) into mindless horrors that will eat their pets as soon as look at them. S.T., along with Big Jim’s bloodhound Dennis, […]

It is A Truth Universally Acknowledged That a Mantis Shrimp Must Be in Want of Something to Punch

An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong

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Ed Yong takes us through the vast world of animal senses with understandable explanations of complicated science and a startling humor that made me laugh out loud, in public, many times. From misquoting Jane Austen to lamenting his poor choices in clothing, Yong adds delightful levity to a complex and fascinating subject. When we think about how animals see the world around them, we are already biasing our analysis based on humanity’s strongest sense, that of sight. How an animal “sees” the world is better […]

There’s a Girl in a Tower, But This Isn’t Her Story

Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher

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If you know me, you know that a good fairytale retelling or interpretation is totally my jam. Robin McKinley had me by the throat for years thanks to Beauty, Deerskin, Spindle’s End, etc. So when I learned that T. Kingfisher, an author whose books I’ve previously enjoyed (and who is a delightful follow on used-to-be-Twitter), had a re-telling of Sleeping Beauty, I was more than down. Thornhedge is the story of Toadling, who was stolen by the faeries as a newborn babe, adopted by a […]

Poems About Indonesia and Infidelity

The Corpse Pose by Erik Campbell

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While I enjoy poetry I’ve never been one to purchase a book of collected poems, I’m much more of a narrative kind of girl. But when your (favorite) high school English teacher publishes his collected poems, well… that’s a decent motivation to buy a book! The Corpse Pose is divided into several sections. One features poems written during the years he spent in West Papua, and another section covers the process of mediation and divorce from his former wife. Both are interesting, albeit quite different. […]

In Holly, Evil Lurks Behind Friendly Facades

Holly by Stephen King

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I think part of the reason I was so determined to read the Bill Hodges trilogy was because I knew Stephen King was about to publish Holly, and having met the character in The Outsider I really wanted to learn more about her. It was great getting to know her over the course of the Bill Hodges trilogy, and she’s even better in her own standalone novel. Holly (obviously) focuses on Holly Gibney a few years after the end of the Bill Hodges trilogy. It’s […]

Cooking, Sexism, Rowing, and Chemistry

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

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I think Lessons in Chemistry had been recommended to me no less than 10 times, by different people, before I decided to give it a try. I don’t know why I delayed reading it, probably mostly because I was trying to complete my 2023 reading challenge and couldn’t figure out how to make this fit. But this year’s challenge required a book set 24 years before I was born, and Lessons in Chemistry fit the bill! I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. Based on […]



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