Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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hot take one of the better entries in this series but Dear Lord, The Path To Love Does Not Run Smooth does it??

The Rushworth Family Plot by Claudia Gray

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BINGO: Family, right? Has to be. I fear my patience for the obstacles that are constantly strewn in Miss Tilney and Mr. Darcy Jr’s way is starting to smart a bit. I’ll admit that this one was rather clever, and even though it took a while for the penny to drop when it did I genuinely felt the tension (and could hear the soundtrack to the movie — Scene: our ladies of leisure browse the art exhibition…people are whispering…the music crescendos… suddenly the whispers get […]

the lower limit does not exist of how few new pages of Murderbot I will read and tell myself I’m satisfied

Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy by Martha Wells

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BINGO: definitely “Favorite” I loved all parts of this, and I’m smart enough to understand that I’m being emotionally manipulated on this Day, the Day of the Last Episode of Murderbot on TV. Whatever, manipulate away, it’s difficult being so much smarter than everyone anyhow (as ART/Peri must inevitably feel). Side note, every time someone said Peri I thought about Dr. Perry Cox from Scrubs, who honestly has as similar prickly vibe. SO here we have a small little ficlet, a teeny tiny wee bit […]

meandering thoughts about grandiose concepts does not an award winner make, please

Orbital by Samantha Harvey

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BINGO: “O” I’m in the middle of a Space Phase now, clearly, what with Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid (gay and delightful) and Murderbot (🚨🚨🚨🚨 new murderbot short story today in the POV of ART 🚨🚨🚨🚨) and getting hooked on For All Mankind (midway through season 2, wish there were less Earth Drama and more Space). So it only made sense to pick this up, this tiny book from the Booker list which has not paid amazing dividends or anything, but see what it brought forward. Here is the […]

“If there was one thing she had learned on this trip, it was that leadership was more than titles and giving orders. It was an act of becoming something greater than what one had been before; it was doing things for others, things that they could not do themselves. It was a burden, true, but it refined as much as it hurt.”

White Sand Omnibus by Brandon Sanderson

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hot take very worth re-reading, they should just pull the older version off the shelves — book recall, anyone? wonder if it would have made as much sense if I hadn’t already known what Sanderson was trying to do via the author note So yes, this is markedly, substantially different from the individual books. The art still has the abrupt switcheroo halfway through the second (third?) volume, and the fundamental plot is the same, but there’s a real attempt to clarify the narrative thrust via […]

want more wooing, gosh darn it

Wooing the Witch Queen by Stephanie Burgis

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hot take felt like too much tell don’t show, ended up skipping ahead bc I wanted to see how it ended. I think my biggest issue with this book was that I felt that our male lead–Felix–was much more interesting of a character than Saskia, despite the fact that she’s the titular Witch Queen to be wooed. She felt like an idea of a role (sarcastic, misunderstood, guarded) without enough time for us to see this and believe it, so we skip over by having […]

mehhh need to get one good book in, it’s been a bit

Any Trope But You by Victoria Lavine

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hot take, bums me out to hate on a book that features a smarty-pants character who goes to Caltech!!! yayyy (even if that’s only because our FMC is based on SoCal and so MIT really isn’t an option). but overall it was hard to get behind the set up for this, even as someone who’s all about the tropes. It felt like we went through a lot to get to the conceit of being in the remote Alaskan wilderness, in a way that really wasn’t […]



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