Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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She/her. Longtime lurker, goodreads addict :D (Learn more about this Cannonballer: wicherwill's Quick Questions interview.)

wicherwill's Reviews:

bit of an omnibus for the year end

Buried Deep and Other Stories by Naomi Novik

Our Evenings by Alan Hollinghurst

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

Anne of the Island by L.M. Montgomery

Anne of Ingleside by L.M. Montgomery

The Husbands by Holly Gramazio

Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close by Aminatou Sow, Ann Friedman

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Buried Deep and Other Stories (⭐⭐⭐⭐ but for the ones I read) Did I get this only to re-visit the world of Temeraire? You bet! I felt, I think like many people, that Novik got a bit fed up of her Dragon + Napoleonic Wars world by the end, with the whimsy and joy taken over by staid descriptions of military marches and food depots. This was a way to return to the original joy, especially since one of the retellings was of Pride and […]

They’re lovely by podcast as well

The Love Prescription by John Gottman, Julie Schwartz Gottman

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The Gottmans are one of the few pop science social psychologists that I find useful for one’s day to day relationships. Partially because their work is informed by (but not heavily reliant on) theoretical frameworks, they strike the right balance of informed and practical. For those who don’t know, most of their work is based on years of longitudinal observations of couples in the lab, recording and then coding all manner of behaviors. From this data they’ve codified a series of interventions and theories to […]

reading while hungry can be hazardous to your health

The Pairing by Casey McQuinston

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This book should not be read while hungry–and I’m saying this, as a vegan who couldn’t eat about 90% of the things they sample in this book. (I am currently in the middle of making lunch, and honestly this book shouldn’t be thought of while hungry either) (ugh the lunch came out badly and now I’m too grumpy to try again) There is a romance plot here–best summed as “chaotic bisexual exes sleep and eat their way through Europe in a misguided attempt to prove […]

Cozy Fantasy at its best

Sandry's Book by Tamora Pierce

Tris's Book by Tamora Pierce

Daja's Book by Tamora Pierce

Briar's Book by Tamora Pierce

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Sandry’s Book These were a re-read on a recent flight, and I blipped through all four of them like they were candy, but with a newfound appreciation. Or maybe the same appreciation I’ve had all along? These books were, and continue to be, a lodestone for how to write ‘cozy fantasy,’ where the stakes are real but the peace between (and the world building, aside from the magic rule building) is as important. Should go without saying that of all the Pierce quartets of books, […]

now we’re cooking (re: writing reviews)

Dawnshard by Brandon Sanderson

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I really am just getting more confused as we go along, but it’s the type of confused where I think I should understand just slightly more than I do! Luckily there are no end of guides to the Cosmere, and if all else fails there is Evin the Magnificent and their Magnificent Brain to answer questions for me, even when they are so very spectacularly boneheaded (the Lopen woud laugh). SO rather than try and do a bit of a plot synopsis–there is a blurb, […]

cannonball complete on my other favorite book of the year

The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman

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The embarrassment of this book is this: I’m positive I loved this book, but honestly I struggle to remember more than a handful of (rather vivid) scenes from the book. In my defense there are a lot of characters and a lot of mythology (and pop culture!) referenced, so you spend a lot of your brainpower trying to understand what you’re reading and putting it in context of everything else you know about Arthurian retellings. But all in all, this book is a marvel of […]



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