Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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a very quick read (probably could have been one book, not that I’m complaining)

The Wonder Engine by T. Kingfisher

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Biggest takeaway is that you should definitely have this second booked queued up when you read the first in this series. Unlike some of her later work in this world that are comprised of standalone books with character cameos, the Clocktaur books are directly related and need to be read as such. And so we continue with our merry band of thieves/possessed former knights/misogynist scholars. As a reminder, they’ve been tasked with figuring out how to stop the armies of unstoppable Clocktaurs being built by […]

this one threw me down the rabbit hole

Clockwork Boys by T. Kingfisher

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T. Kingfisher’s books have been floating in and out of my TBR list for ages now. I have had a copy of Swordheart on my Kindle for ages now, but for some reason I never felt the urge to actually pick it up (virtually speaking, that is) and start reading it, even though it appears to be that rare unicorn–a standalone fantasy book. As it were, Swordheart isn’t really a standalone book, in so much as it takes place in the same universe as a number of her other […]

I hope this one gets as much love as the prior one

The Daughter of Dr. Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

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Moreno-Garcia strikes again, with a quirky book that is a bit more in line with Mexican Gothic in ~vibe~ but all on its own in tenor and plot. Set against the backdrop of the original tale of Dr. Moreau, a H.G. Wells invention who took one look at Dr. Frankenstein and said “hold my drink,” Moreno-Garcia invents for Dr. Moreau a daughter and a hacienda and more of a backstory, setting the tale of eerie hybrid animal inventions in a world of capitalism and greed and all […]

perhaps I have (agedout) of these books…

Howl's Moving Castle by Dianna Wynne Jones

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I’m not sure what prompted me to finally pick this book up. For what it’s worth, while I liked Spirited Away and LOVE My Neighbor Totoro (there’s a stage version starting in October for which I immediately bought tickets), I’ve found some of Miyazaki’s other work to be a bit inscrutable. While watching Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind in a pre-Japan-trip burst of energy, I…fell asleep. That’s not to say that the adaptation of a book has much to do with the book itself, and honestly I’m not sure […]

“nonetheless, she persisted” — and in style

Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting by Clare Pooley

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CW: remembering now that there is a relationship that is (non-violently) abusive, sort of early stage emotional, except that it’s choreographed well in advance and there’s never any doubt in your mind that it’ll end well (and it does). I think this was a Goodreads recommend, in a subgenre I will call “nonetheless, she persisted” (Lessons in Chemistry comes to mind as the most recent example of this genre that I read). I put it on hold on a whim and quite delightfully opened it when […]

just the coolest casual story of how I got this book

Twelve Percent Dread by Emily McGovern

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I actually met Emily McGovern in person! I was checking out what events were going on in the area near my office one evening, and I saw that there was a book signing about a 10-15 minute walk away, and I went on a whim! This is why I moved to London, to be clear, this sort of serendipitous ability to do cool things. She drew a tiger in my book as that is my favorite animal (or maybe elephants are?) and I couldn’t think […]



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