Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Bookworm Saves the World with Books, Kindness, and Good Food. Oh, and Magic.

The Savior's Book Café Story In Another World Vol 1 by Omiya

The Savior's Book Café Story In Another World Vol 2 by Omiya

The Savior's Book Café Story In Another World Vol 3 by Omiya

The Savior's Book Café Story In Another World Vol 4 by Omiya

The Savior's Book Café Story In Another World Vol 5 by Omiya

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Tsukina wasn’t really interested in being transported to another world as one of its’ saviors, but when told she doesn’t have a choice, she drives a hard bargain to get what she needs to set up her ideal life: running a book café on the outskirts near the capital city of Othel.  Her first customer, Il Soeil, turns out to be the captain of the knights of the kingdom.  Il happens to be just as big a bookworm as Tsukina is, and soon the two […]

An Interesting Middle to a Trilogy

Clockwork Prince by Cassandra Clare

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In the aftermath of Mortmain’s attack on the Institute, Tessa and her allies find themselves in a race to find him before factions within the Clave remove Charlotte and Henry as Heads of the Institute.  However, even as they learn more about both Mortmain his plans, he appears to be one step ahead of them, and attacks from within threaten their attempts to stop him.  If they wish to defeat their enemy, first they must figure out who has betrayed them. Once again, I think […]

Nostalgia. And My Favorite Cat.

Obernewtyn by Isobelle Carmody

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Obernewtyn, by Australian author Isobelle Carmody, is the first book in what was originally meant to be a five part series. However, this original plan didn’t quite pan out and The Obernewtyn Chronicles ended up pulling the same kind of seam-splitting expansion that would later be codified in popular culture by The Song of Ice and Fire by growing to a total of seven books. Which were published across nearly thirty years*. The series itself is as old as I am.  I’ve always had a […]

Gods and Monsters

Queen of Dreams by Kit Rocha

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Queen of Dreams is so fun. It opens with Ash, Zanya, and other members of the High Court preventing soldiers from burning an old woman as a witch. Rot in The Sheltered Lands is being spread by the regents who took control after Zanya murdered the evil king. There are intrigues, preparations for war, gods fighting gods, lovers sparring using their full abilities, lovers loving to their full abilities, and endless buckets of hope. The world building in this series is amazing and I am so […]

A Winter’s Tale from the Rivers of London

Winter's Gift by Ben Aaronovitch

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Winter’s Gift is the most recent novella in the ongoing River’s of London series by Ben Aaronovitch and the subject actually came as a surprise to me when I got the book. When you have a character in the series called Tobias Winter (a German police officer) then an assumption that this is one of his books seemed logical, instead this is set in the US and features FBI agent Kimberley Reynolds. Rewinding for a Rivers of London recap: magic is real, gods exist and […]

Tower of Cards

Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by R.F. Kuang

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There’s a lot that I liked about this book, so in true form for me I’m going to start with two things I really didn’t like. First, you get one subtitle, max. Zero is preferable, and two or more is asinine. Babel, or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution reeks of trying to have it not just both ways, but all ways. Pick a title and stick to it. Babel would have worked just fine on its own. Secondly, […]



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