Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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still confusing, but promising

A Monsoon Rising by Thea Guanzon

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I have to say this started out sort of two-star-y, with what felt again like too much exposition of a magic system that doesn’t really make sense and stakes that seem hard to place. Side bar, the magic continues to not make sense to me, as it does not follow Sanderson’s Second Law of limitations being more important than powers–night magic and light weave can just be created into anything, a la the Green Lantern(?), as long as you are sufficiently concentrated and have worked […]

The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford

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A recommendation by elderberrywine! Truly, I started speaking like a member of the Bright Young Things x British Landed Gentry in the 1930s after reading this, because there’s something so compelling about the way everyone in these sorts of novels swans around the world. It genuinely is “this absolute disregard for whatever anyone else might think,” and not realizing that the way you grew up and did things is entirely out of the norm. Because you only have your people to compare against, wouldn’t you […]

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a rare find indeed

The Rakess by Scarlett Peckham

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Look, it’s hard to find het books wherein the female lead is in charge, or at the very least an equal participant in the romantic endeavors that follow. And the latter is also sort of unsatisfying when you’ve read an entire lifetime’s worth of books which parrot the whole “AND THEN HE RAVISHED HER, THAT RAVISHER” line. Peckham writes in a pretty decently long foreword about her experience with the whole rake/virginal woman who changes him and how she wanted to turn it on its […]

Lady Sherlock!

A Ruse of Shadows by Sherry Thomas

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You know, I never have any idea what’s going on in these books and I really appreciate that Thomas has taken a very Holmesian approach to each novel–which is to say, they obvious have a very rich mythology at this point (see: the cast of characters at the start of the novel, which you’d usually associate with some terribly long Russian novel) but also they sort of (?) stand alone if you’re willing to be confused and accept that you’re not getting as much nuance. […]

a *gasp* new IRL book club!

Thunderstone by Nancy Campbell

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This was an interesting book for a few reasons, the least of which is that it *literally * fell apart in my hands–every single page came apart as I turned it, leaving me with a curious sort of folio of pages once I finished it. In that sense, the book (purchased second hand on eBay, and therefore possessed of a sort of tacky, damp history) felt akin to how most of this narrative felt: hanging on by a wish and thread and a bit of […]

“Listen, direct action—direct action is the third best feeling in the world.” “What’s the second?” “Peeling off a wet swimsuit.”

The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai

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This isn’t the oldest thing on my TBR–that honor probably goes to either of Arundhati Roy’s novels The God of Small Things or Ministry of Utmost Happiness–but it’s definitely a long simmering recommendation from Lydia. But once I read the blurb, it made it so hard to pick up. When is anyone in the mood for reading about 1980s and the height of the AIDS pandemic? Even if it is in Chicago, which isn’t one of the cities we usually associated with the time period? Ergo, the multiple […]



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