Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Complain about lack of standalone fantasy and then complain when I find one

Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher

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Unfairly to this book, while I enjoyed the it as a standalone novel (that rare unicorn in the fantasy world), I found myself constantly wishing I was back in The World of the White Rat! I really hope that Kingfisher writes more in that universe, though. It’s the rare sort of one that has both enough scope for imagination but doesn’t require you to pull out your colored pens and post it notes to keep a track of a fictional family free more closely than […]

thank you to my friend Evin

The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch

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Another “why did I wait so long??” book, courtesy of the Evanescent Evin! I do tend to pithily categorize any number of books as Tamora Pierce but with/for x, but it’s always meant as a true compliment to a woman who I think was doing the work many years before it became hip to do so. So in that vein, I think that these books are Tamora Piece-esque in their jumble of characters and vague setting, but that’s probably where the comparison grinds to a […]

thank you to Banned Book club!

The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones

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CW: as you might imagine, a lot I don’t think anyone is going to read or not read this book based on reviews by this point. Either you are receptive to the ideas that Hannah-Jones is about to lay out for you in helpful detail and with inescapable logic, or you think that she’s a proto-terrorist set to destroy your dreams of a glorious America first hellscape. I mean, both sides amirite? So I’ll instead focus on some of the takeaways I have on what […]

white whales go down

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

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CW: there are a lot here, it is a book about both the Black experience in the US from the days of human slavery to modern times and colonial Ghana so like, you may fill in the blanks I really don’t know why this book took me so long to pick up! (This is a sentiment that will be repeated a few times in the next few reviews, be prepared) There was a time (perhaps it is still ongoing) where the Hot Genre was inter […]

a book for everyone, and everyone should read a book

How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems by Randall Munroe

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There is no one who isn’t the audience for this book. If you’re interested in science, there’s a lot of it in here. If you don’t know much science, you can skip some of the more technical elements of the book and just get the high level takeaways. If you’re scientifically inclined, you can luxuriate in all the math that Munroe casually throws into his answers. We’d all be better off if we took scientific advice when trying to solve our day to day problems, […]

Libraries are amazing

The Girl in his Shadow by Audrey Blake

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What a fantastic example of how libraries are amazing, and how nostalgic I am for those halcyon days when I’d go with my parents (or at school) and get recommendations and check out 15 books at once to see what I enjoy. As an American who’s lived in privileged communities with substantive funding, I never knew what I had vis-à-vis public libraries until I moved overseas and was able to compare. I say all this because this book was the “book club read” for my […]



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