Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“Because being of utility was more than I had expected, and yet one still does not want to be used. Of use, but not used.”

The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Ann Older

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The Mimicking of Known Successes can be quickly described as what if Sherlock Holmes, but sapphic and in a sci-fi future where the Earth is uninhabitable and humans have colonized Jupiter?   Malka Ann Older’s resume is a wide combination of things, and it feeds directly into the kind of book that The Mimicking of Known Successes is. We have here a book that examines what happens next when final resources are used to leave Earth, but the goal is to go back. Pleiti is our […]

Baby Blue your friends got you

Baby Blue by Bim Eriksson

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Baby Blue by Bim Eriksson and translator Melissa Bowers was another one of those books I looked at the cover of and said, “Why did I request this?” (As I got it through my library). I don’t remember why, but as I sit here typing this review, I think it probably is getting some attention for the fact it is pretty awesome (if not a “What did I read?” and one of the more odd reads of the year so far) book. I think it […]

Lost Souls Meet Under A Full Moon by Mizuki Tsujimura, Yuki Tejima (Translator)

Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon by Mizuki Tsujimura

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Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. I absolutely loved this collection of stories told under the umbrella of a mysterious person called “the Go-Between”. A person that is able to set up meetings with the living and the dead, preferable during the full moon. Each story follows four people who reach out to this person and then the last portion of this book has us finding out who the “Go-Between” is and how they […]

Life’s a Game

The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks

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CBR Bingo: Play I read a number of Iain M. Bank’s Culture novels about ten years ago and, while I remember enjoying them thoroughly, for whatever reason, I never ended up finishing the series. They’re technically all standalones, but I didn’t want to jump back in halfway through without having a strong recollection of the previous books, so decided to do a re-read. The Player of Games is technically the second book in the series, but from what I remembered (and from some other opinions I’ve […]

Sometimes I’d like to send murderbot into other books just to spice things up and see what would happen. 

Rogue Protocol (Murderbot #3) by Martha Wells

Exit Strategy (Murderbot #4) by Martha Wells

Fugitive Telemetry (Murderbot #6) by Martha Wells

No One Was Supposed to Die at this Wedding by Catherine Mack

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Rogue Protocol (Murderbot #3) Exit Strategy (Murderbot #4) Fugitive Telemetry (Murderbot #6) I never know what to say about these books. I like them. Are they all the same? Yeah, kind of. Is that a bad thing? No, not really. Murderbot goes places, Murderbot investigates, Murderbot is awkward around humans. It’s like a cozy mystery set in space. I liked Fugitive Telemetry most, because it’s where we get the most interaction between Murderbot, the people who know him, and those who meet him for the […]

Bleak but Creative

A Short Stay in Hell by Steven L. Peck

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cbr17bingo: borrow – borrowed from my library Well, this was depressing—but also kind of fascinating. Our narrator Soren, a devout Mormon, dies and ends up in Hell, where he learns that there is a true religion (yes, one that is currently practiced on earth), and it’s not Mormonism. Hell is real, but there are different versions of it, and Soren is sent to one inspired by Jorge Luis Borges’s story “The Library of Babel” (which I recall reading and enjoying in college). In this library is […]



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