Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Three Hours by Rosamund Lupton

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Three Hours of what, you ask? A school shooting. I know, I know. It’s 2021. Things are bad enough. Why would you want to read a book about a school shooting? Because it’s really well done. It’s obviously an incredibly heavy topic that must be approached carefully, but Lupton has done that (and more). The first smart choice she made was to base the siege in the United Kingdom. The second smart choice she made was to do her research. A lot of research… and […]

Space Spiders!

Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky

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Tchaikovsky has conducted a fascinating thought experiment in ‘Children of Time’ – what if spiders evolved rapidly and became the dominant species on a world bereft of humans? This is the first in a trilogy of books that takes place in the distant future. Humanity is on the brink of destroying our once hospitable planet, and so have reached out to the stars to terraform new worlds in case things continue to go south here at home. Never content to leave well enough alone, humanity […]

It was the ring of counterfeit Elvis robots that did it for me, honestly.

The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood

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“He can’t shake the feeling that this place is some sort of pyramid scheme, and that those who fail to understand that will be left empty-handed. But there’s no obvious reason for this feeling of his. Maybe he’s ungrateful by nature.” The nation is in economic ruin. Everyone is fighting for whatever scraps are left. Which is why Charmaine is grateful to have a job as a bartender, even if she and her husband Stan are living in their car and moving every few hours […]

There’s a Lot More to it Than the Title Implies

They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera

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CBR Bingo: Cityscape First things first, with a title like that it’s obvious that They Both Die at the End is going to be a tearjerker, and I don’t normally enjoy tearjerkers. It’s a testament to Adam Silvera’s writing that I not only finished this book but that I liked it. Mateo and Rufus are teens living in New York who, just after midnight on the same day, get a call from Death-Cast: the service that accurately predicts the day you’ll die and lets you know […]

And then they all died

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

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CBR Square- Mythic I was talking to my husband about Piranesi after he asked me what I thought about it and I told him I loved it but I didn’t want to spoil any of it so I didn’t know what to say. He told me to just say “and then all died.” Sorry. Piranesi is a slow building mystery where the main character is in a House by the sea full of statues that is built like a maze. The main character, who doesn’t remember […]

Steamy and Cute

Any Way the Wind Blows by Rainbow Rowell

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Faintingviolet turned me into a Rainbow Rowell superfan a few years ago, so I was very excited to get a beautiful special edition hardcopy of Any Way the Wind Blows for my birthday this year. The third and final chapter of the Simon Snow trilogy (which apparently wasn’t ever supposed to be a trilogy), follows our favorite cast of characters back to England where a whole bunch of new “Chosen Ones” are cropping up. Baz finds out his step-mother’s joined one of the Chosen One […]



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