Cannonball Read 17

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700+ words on how much I disliked this book

The Rose Field by Philip Pullman

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BINGO: TBR, even though it’s relatively recent, because for how excited I was for the launch it’s shockingly long before I actually forced myself to sit down and read this thing Maybe I will change the review for this when I’ve calmed down but for now WE RIDE AS WITCHES, perfectly serene and passionate and unbothered by the vagaries of humankind. Warning that at some point I do go off into a bullet point list which have some spoiler-y elements, but it is worth it […]

writing this review for bingo, and ended up in the typical place

The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai

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BINGO: “citizen,” as the questions of visa and citizenship and being able to stay in the US (or what to do when you can’t) occupy much of the mindspace and drives the plot. hot take prose is mostly gorgeous and compelling if overly long at times, but very rarely did I get the sense that Desai fundamentally understands the emotional arcs she’s writing about (immigrant alienation, lack of belonging, lack of place, awkwardness) or that she’s got any female friends/women she understands??? right so coming […]

Do you think the author was doomed to only binge works himself?

Dissolution by Nicholas Binge

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hot take I don’t think I’m going to read any more of these standalone sci-fi twisters written by men (e.g., Recursion) bc they make no sense but clearly are vehicles to get to one cool mic drop scene or monologue. Is it that these books are sort of written with flashy set pieces that would make for an easy TV adaptation? Perhaps I should just realize that these books are not for me. But I keep getting pulled back into them because I like sci-fi, […]

Copper Script

Copper Script by K.J. Charles

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Funnily enough I mentally get T. Kingfisher and KJ Charles confused, just because of the vague similarities of their pen names and the fact that I enjoy a lot of what they write (and because a lot of it is about older characters, and not all of it is straight, and it’s often set in other world, either historical or fantastical) (okay so not entirely confusing why). So to read them back to back, when I’d just been mildly disappointed by a T. Kingfisher book […]

when an author gets too excited by world building

Hemlock & Silver by T. Kingfisher

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Look, I really like T Kingfisher’s work in general, so I’ve had this on hold essentially from when it was available to go on hold. I read it in a single day, I think in a single sitting (although this latter part not that surprising as I think I was on a train and therefore not much else to do). I also really like fairytale retellings, even the ones that aren’t Beauty and the Beast. But this book just wasn’t it, and I think it’s […]

Witches But in September

A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna

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BINGO: “Free” for the “G” because I don’t have a G book queued up and time’s a-running out. hot take it’s nice but a bit all over the place and I’m not certain I vibe with the ultimate message. Amusingly, this isn’t billed as #2 in a series even though it’s clearly a follow up to The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches which I remember enjoying. There’s a similar feeling to the world and to the magic–lots of vibes and feelings, less on the details of […]



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