Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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40-something psychologist living with a husband, toddler, and 2 cats.

Tracy's Reviews:

Entertained, But Left Wanting

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

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I wanted to like this more than I did. And I did enjoy it, but I was expecting more after having read Sea of Tranquility and seeing how much other Cannonballers like this one. Station Eleven alternates settings between when a flu pandemic starts and 20 years later in the post-apocalyptic world. In the future, Kirsten, one of the main characters, is an actor in The Traveling Symphony, a group of actors and musicians who travel from small town to small town to perform for […]

Size Inclusivity in Romance

Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade

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This romance centers on April and Marcus. April is heavily involved in the Gods of the Gates fandom (a Game of Thrones type of show) and decides to post a picture on Twitter of herself in cosplay. Because she is fat, because the character she is cosplaying as is not, and because there is still a lot of socially approved fatphobia in the world, she gets a lot negative comments (though she also gets a lot of positive reinforcement from other comments, which is nice). […]

Cozy Fantasy(?) Reviews

The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna

Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

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In The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches, Mika Moon is a 31-year-old witch who, like other witches around the world, hides who she is. Every 3 months she meets up with other witches in Great Britain for a few hours, but aside from that, they have little to no contact with each other. But Mika loves magic so much and wants to share it with a community so badly that she creates videos in which she performs magic. She doesn’t expect any viewers to […]

Is There Anything Better Than Witty, Sometimes Snarky, Banter?

Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert

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It’s been a while since I read a romance, and this was a great way to return to the genre. Chloe Brown has a near death experience that leads her to re-evaluating her life. She thinks she’s boring, so she comes up with a list of things that she thinks will help make her braver and more interesting. This process starts with her moving out of her parents’ house and into an apartment, where she meets Red Morgan, the superintendent. Red is an artist who’s […]

I’m on a Reading Roll – Which Makes It Hard to Keep Up With Reviews

A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers

A Fatal Grace by Louise Penny

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

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A Psalm for the Wild-Built and A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers I think I only have one Becky Chambers book left to read, and then I’ll have to wait for her to come back from the hiatus she’s currently on. I enjoyed both of the Monk and Robot books, though for some reason they don’t seem to be quite sticking with me the way the Wayfarers books did. Both novellas follow monk Dex and robot Mosscap and are mostly about their relationship […]

Catching Up On Some Reviews

Still Life by Louise Penny

With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo

A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

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Still Life by Louise Penny Back when I was hoping to complete a Cannonball Bingo, Still Life was my choice for the North America square. The first novel in Louise Penny’s Chief Inspector Gamache mystery series, it’s set in the little town of Three Pines in Canada and follows the search for the murderer of 76-year-old Jane Neal. I don’t often read mysteries, so I was surprised at how Penny approached the mystery. We spend a lot of time with other characters in the town […]



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