Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Live to work/work to live, la la la

When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth by Cory Doctorow

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I don’t know if this even counts – it might be a short story. But then again, it might be a novella (I read it online and wasn’t paying attention to its length). So, I’m both a great and terrible audience for this – I won’t pretend to have understood most of their sysadmin stuff. But I do love an apocalyptic situation. So…here we go. An extremely short and oversimplified synopsis might be Computer Geeks Save Us All. An extremely fast-acting virus has more or […]

In the year 3,000…

Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000 by L. Ron Hubbard

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Around this time last year, I finished reading War and Peace. That was a bucket list book that took me a loooong time to finish but that I found to be worth the effort. This year, I finished the 1,000+ pages of L. Ron Hubbard’s Battlefield Earth. Hubbard isn’t Tolstoy, but I finished the book feeling accomplished and that my reading efforts were rewarded. As you can guess from the title and the cover, Battlefield Earth is set a millennium from now. Human society has devolved, […]

Weird Black Girls by Elwin Cotman

Weird Black Girls by Elwin Cotman

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I thought this was a good collection. Per usual, I rate overall and then for each story in the collection. Trigger warning: Rape I feel really bad I accidentally dropped this one in the bathtub the other day. I was reading (as one does) and then slip! And now it’s dry, but definitely a little swollen. Oh well! “The Switchin Tree”(5 stars)-I really liked this story that follows a young girl named Man whose family and community gets turned upside down in 1958. The children […]

I keep telling myself, “I do not like horror…..”

Hide: The Graphic Novel by Kiersten White and Scott Peterson.

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I keep telling myself, I do not like horror. Yet, I keep picking up horror related books, and did so with Hide: The Graphic Novel. It is adapted from the novel by Kiersten White, illustrated by Veronica Fish and Andy Fish, with the adaptation by Scott Peterson. Now it isn’t “gory horror” but yes, there is gore (it is about 14 people trying to survive the “game” and well, the stakes are pretty high). It is icky and there is blood. But you know, tastefully […]

Starts off with a Firefly like crew and quickly becomes something entirely different

Honor’s Knight by Rachel Bach

Fortune’s Pawn by Rachel Bach

Heaven’s Queen by Rachel Bach

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I would say that I enjoyed the series overall but I also think the first one was the most fun. There were a few lines in the first book that I thought would lead in a certain direction and I either completely misread them, or the author decided she already had enough to resolve without adding that into the equation so dropped that potential plot point. The second book adds quite a bit of complexity to the alliances of the world. With a main character […]

Dark magic

Muted: Volume 1 by Miranda Mundt

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I almost skipped reading Muted: Volume 1 by Miranda Mundt. It looks too “girly” and maybe even a bit too graphic in the “thriller/horror” elements. And before I go much farther into the review: TRIGGERS include, but are not limited to: bullying, child death, parent death, fire, death, blood, a form of self-harm, form of racism towards other classes of witches, fantasy elements and mental abuse. And even though the cover made me iffy about reading things, I did finally “pick up” the online reader.  […]



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