Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“Desire was not passion and passion was not love.”

The Beautiful Ones by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

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I have been slow to jump on the Silvia Moreno-Garcia bandwagon, mostly because I read one of her earlier books and it wasn’t for me. Then everyone lost their minds over Mexican Gothic. And I did nothing! But I’m glad I eventually gave her another shot, because this book shows me that I can like what she does, though it still didn’t perfectly gel with my tastes. SM-G is a genre hopping author, and with The Beautiful Ones, she takes on a fantastical version of […]

An extremely unexpected new favorite.

Liar, Dreamer, Thief by Maria Dong

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This book spoke to me. Katrina Kim is the most lovable, vulnerable mess of a human. I would find it concerning how much I identified with her* if I wasn’t too busy enjoying every bonkers moment of this book. I was worried as I approached the end, given how I’d lost my mind over it so far, that the ending wouldn’t do Katrina justice, but I shouldn’t have been worried. I cried happy tears and felt much resolution. *I have OCD and she does too, […]

“There are three stages in scientific discovery. First, people deny that it is true, then they deny that it is important; finally they credit the wrong person.”

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

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When I was looking at the 2022 Read Harder Challenge for the first time and saw #9: “Read the book that’s been on your TBR the longest”, I knew without looking what that book would be, even though I haven’t looked at the beginning of my list in years. And that’s because I’ve been avoiding this book for as long as I’ve wanted to read it. Just one word for you: supervolcano. In Bryson’s signature breezy, humorous, yet intelligent style, he will explain to you […]

“Be warned, then: the collected volumes of this series will contain frozen mountains, foetid swamps, hostile foreigners, hostile fellow countrymen, the occasional hostile family member, bad decisions, misadventures in orienteering, diseases of an unromantic sort, and a plenitude of mud.”

A Natural History of Dragons (The Memoirs of Lady Trent, #1) by Marie Brennan

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I finally started this series! I put book one on my TBR back when it was first published and then never got around to it, not even after I met the author at a book festival and got a signed copy of book three (I did not yet own books one or two, but it was the only one available for signing). Maybe I would have gotten to it sooner if I would have realized one of my favorite audiobook narrators, Kate Reading, does the […]

The way I dropped everything to listen to this when my ARC request was approved.

Extra Witchy (Fix-It Witches, #3) by Ann Aguirre

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Thanks to NetGalley and Dreamscape Media for the ARC. It hasn’t affected the content of my review. I really like this series. There’s bits about it that I would tweak if I could, but overall this is a really well put together contemporary magical romance series, and I like where she’s taking it. I hope there are more books. I feel like there will be with some of the side character stuff going on in here. This book follows Leanne, the driven political witch, who […]

I don’t understand why people like this one, either!!

Lavender House by Lev A.C. Rosen

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Thanks to NetGalley and MacMillan Audio for the ARC. It hasn’t affected the content of my review. I’m not sure how much help my review is going to be here, because I’m pretty certain I would have given it a different rating (though maybe not that different) had I not done the audio. I really wish I hadn’t jumped on this ARC instead of waiting for the hard copy to come in to my library. This is a queer murder mystery. It is not like Knives […]



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