Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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exactly what the blurb promises–a twisty political intrigue with a bit of ~magic~

The Councillor by E.J. Beaton

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Rec’d!: This book was recommended via Aquilla’s truly amazing review and is definitely one that I would never have run into myself. It’s the perfect example of why book reviews are so great, and finding a circle of reviewers with whom you connect is so amazing. SO this book. To quickly recap: the queen of a collection of four city-states/duchies(?) and one capital city has died without an heir, and as such a Councillor has been appointed to pick a new monarch from the rulers of […]

seriously bereft that I read this so quickly and that there won’t be any more

Any Way the Wind Blows by Rainbow Rowell

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People, a cover with our favorite SnowBaz on the cover, in their trademark wings and three piece suit! I didn’t have the patience to re-read Carry On and Wayward Son before this came off hold–so I tried to find some “Previously on…” type reviews. One in particular scared me–it talked about how the books read “like fanfiction” in that there’s no recapping, on the assumption that every reader had devoured the prior works a hundred times over. They were right, and also wrong. Yes, this book does read like […]

I am shocked, shocked to discover that the contributions of Black Women have been overlooked

Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts by Rebecca Hall

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UnCannon: centering the experiences of a Black, female- and queer-identifying scholar as she dips into some unknown history around slave revolts! This short(ish) graphic novel started out at a three star review but slowly started climbing as I got more into it—part of me feels like this must have been because I have to remind myself how to read graphic novels every time I start one, especially one like this where the drawings are themselves telling a bit of a story. The subtitle gives away […]

I loved this SO MUCH why did I procrastinate on reading it for so long???

A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine

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New Series, first in the Teixcalaan series and published on March 26, 2019! Ahh a day late for Pride 2021 but we’ll call it as under the wire–what a book to finish off on, and one where romance is not even the second (or third) priority for any of our characters. I will hold off on giving this a five star review but might very well come back and do so in the very near future. It has my feelings in a VISE. New romance, […]

A great roilicking read, well worth the time to get into the world

A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark

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Having written myself out with a review of the prior outing in the Dead Djinn Universe, I will quickly recap: this book is not the peer to The Daevabad Trilogy that I thought it would be. It’s Muslim Miss Marple solving capers in Cairo that happens to be inhabited by djinn and where magic is commonplace. Caveat I’ve actually never read Miss Marple, I was clearly just going for the alliteration. Will continue with a conceit that’s worked for me: things I didn’t like. Almost […]

I should learn to not judge a book by my vague sentiment as to what they are!

The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djèlí Clark

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In hindsight, this book should have made me realize exactly what sort of book series I was getting into. About double the length (?) of the first outing in the Dead Djinn universe and with correspondingly longer to nail down the tone, I definitely was too caught up in the ride to realize that I’d mischaracterized the series (to everyone I talked to about it) (which is everyone. I cannot keep my mouth shut about books I’m reading). To be clear–I’m not saying I dislike […]



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