Cannonball Read 17

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I miss publicly funded library systems that cover entire regions ❤️ NYPL

Where You're Planted by Melanie Sweeney

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Bingo: work! hot take bad hurricane preparedness abounds in this book that preaches flying by the seat of your pants and fixing the resultant issues as… independent women being feminist? Our main characters here are Tansy, a children’s services librarian who becomes the de facto branch manager after a “thousand-year-flood” ruins her Houston area library building, and Jack, a surly gardener and newly promoted Head Director of a botanical garden in the same region. With the library out of commission and half of the staff […]

Creep

Creep by Emma van Straaten

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BINGO: Purple cw: self-harm, internalized fatphobia hot take immediately reminded of the french film À la folie… pas du tout which is also about erotomania, then went to watch the trailer, found everyone’s comments underneath being about having watched this in french class as well, which I find to be quite amusing (Audrey Tautou is probably just a prime French Class actress because she enunciates very precisely) A bit of an exciting read–the author is a friend of a friend from Book Group, and she’ll be attending […]

let sociopaths stay sociopathic, I beg of you!

Finding Grace by Loretta Rothschild

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hot take what it is with books featuring sociopaths that we’re meant to empathize with these days? this would have been a four star thriller if Rothschild had stuck to keeping Tom unlikeable and stuck with the consequences of his actions. Unfortunately, this is a review that really does need the spoiler/plot point at around 15% to be revealed in order to say anything of interest. And in order to get there, you also have to get the very first spoiler, the aforementioned “shocking event […]

reworked fanfiction strikes again, with middling results

The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy by Brigitte Knightley

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BINGO: the letter “I”! hot take if your book needs a glossary at the front and a pronunciation guide in the back you’re doing world building wrong–it’s not a slow build, it’s a slog. That does feel a bit mean to say, but honestly it feels like Knightley had a certain view (or, a certain work) that was going to be fit into the confines of new IP. But that means we’ve got a lot of wood to chop to learn about seith, the order […]

None of the senior leaders…thought about this enough to put in place the kinds of systems we’d need, in Myanmar or other countries. They apparently didn’t care. These were sins of omission. It wasn’t the things they did; it was the things they didn’t do.”

Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams

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BINGO: white hot take what an infuriating book–a real choice for the main read of my peaceful cabin-and-lake-and-forest vacation–and just a solid entry in “tech people are the worst sort of rich/powerful people” genre Sarah Wynn-Williams joined Facebook in 2011, after working for the New Zealand embassy in DC for a number of years. She’s painfully, painfully earnest about her motivations–the zealot convert’s belief that Facebook would completely change the paradigm of the global geopolitical landscape–so much so that she basically whinges her way into […]

For every sentimental my teacher changed my life story you heard, there were dozens of my teacher made me moderately bored a few times a week and then I got through the year and moved on with my life and never thought about them again

The Incandescent by Emily Tesh

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BINGO: school, obviously hot take I think magic system was a bit waffle-y and the overall tone perhaps a shade too imitative of the books referenced in the blurb, but I loved the last part and give me more stories with middle-aged protagonists–they can make ill-advised decisions too! h/t to Britt for the rec! So I mean: Naomi Novik’s Scholomance series meets Plain Bad Heroines in this sapphic dark academia fantasy. I’ll admit I don’t know the second series, but sapphic (!) dark academia (!!) fantasy (!!!) and like, […]



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