Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

When I tell you, when I tell you, when I tell you. 

Guardian by Sara Fields

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Y’all… This warranted an immediate phone call to my former review writing partner, Pattykins. Do you remember several years ago when Patty and I read When Life Happened by Jewel E. Ann and it had such a shocking twist that I set up a separate Facebook group so that we could talk about the twist after you all read it? Guardian by Sara Fields came real close to that level of what the fuck just happened, which I would not have expected at all from […]

A “ragtag band of space gays”

Cosmoknights, Volume 1 by Hannah Templer

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I have been poking around reading Cosmoknights, Volume 1 for ages now. I have had and lost multiple online copies. I thought about ordering a copy, decided against it and then one day I found another online edition. I waited and waited to read until one day I was cleaning up the links I had and found it again. Okay, okay. I get it! The book is from 2019 and still I have an active link? Guess I better read it! With Hannah Templer’s graphic […]

The Real Puppy Power

The Great Puptective V01 by Alina Tysoe

Cloud Puppy V01 by Kelly Leigh Miller

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I like trying to get all the Bingo categories as “pure” as possible. Even if I go with the spirit of things. And don’t like using Free Space if I can help it. It’s just a fun challenge for me. But I had the hardest  time with Fan Fiction. But eventually I found one that fit perfectly! And since the category is way out of my wheelhouse, I was very excited! I wasn’t going to have to use my FREE SPACE. But I could have […]

A Gaslamp-Inspired Sci-Fi Mystery

The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older

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The Mimicking of Known Successes imagines a future where humanity, having completely wrecked Earth and then Mars, has settled on the rings of Jupiter. The entire civilization lives on a series of platforms orbiting above the gas planet, connected to one another across the rings by a series of rail lines. On one of the most distant platforms a man has gone missing. He seems to have stepped off the platform to his death, but why? Inspector Mossa follows his trail back to the university […]

Sometimes doing a little research can help

Howl's Moving Castle Picture Book (Howl's Moving Castle Film Comics, #1) by Diana Wynne Jones

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I have not read the novel this movie is based on, Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones, nor seen the movie. Which might have helped with the reading of the picture book, Howl’s Moving Castle Picture Book (Howl’s Moving Castle Film Comics, #1), as there were “holes” in the flow of things that look like plot pieces are missing. But then again it is more of a screenplay (by by Hayao Miyazaki) and that might have something to do with the “holes” in my […]

Seeking revenge, making friends

Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells

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CBR16 BINGO: Scandal, because Murderbot is seeking to uncover all sorts of illegal activities by the GrayCris Corporation Having recently joined the ranks of the Murderbot fandom, I’m eagerly frolicking my way through the series. While the third installment, Rogue Protocol, struck my fancy less than the first two installments, it’s still a good time and I’m itching for more. In Rogue Protocol, the construct known fondly by us readers as Murderbot and by others as SecUnit is still gathering evidence that the GrayCris Corporation […]



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