Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

The continuing adventures of Mosscap and Dex.

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2) by Becky Chambers

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“You don’t have to have a reason to be tired. You don’t have to earn rest or comfort. You’re allowed to just be.” Still cozy aspirational goodness, and more friendship this time. Also yet another book I should have reviewed much closer to finishing, as my memory of it has grown a little thin. The feelings I got from it remain pretty strong, however. I actually feel like I need to re-read both of these books and take my time, really savor them. This book […]

“You keep asking why your work is not enough, and I don’t know how to answer that, because it is enough to exist in the world and marvel at it. … You are allowed to just live.” – Bingo #3!

A Psalm for the Wild-built by Becky Chambers

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CBR14 Bingo: “Cozy” – This book is like a warm, reassuring hug. I first read A Psalm for the Wild-Built in December 2021.  This is a reread in preparation for A Prayer for the Crown-Shy.  The first time reading A Psalm for the Wild-Built, I was blown away.  Chamber’s evocative writing, meditations on purpose and our place within the natural world, along with the depictions of the soothing powers of tea spoke directly to me.  A Psalm for the Wild-Built was just as affective the second time as […]

A Poem and Prayer and some F@cks

A Prayer for the Crown Shy by Becky Chambers

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Bingo 22: Verse I think I’ve found my preferred Becky Chambers series; the two Monk & Robot books I’ve read so far are philosophical, gentle reads that are still interesting with character and a little plot. The second one though is suitable for a ‘poetic’ category given that it opens with a poem and has a rhythm to it both in terms of the prose and the general story. A Prayer for the Crown-Shy has a really good opening; first the prayer itself that introduces […]

Empathy and Diversity in Xenobiology

The Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers

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Becky Chambers’ Wayfarers series have been a real balm for the troubled soul. If anyone can serve up hopeful and joyous fiction in the manner of a good cuppa tea and scones, its Chambers. So it is slightly sad that find that The Galaxy, and the Ground Within  will be the last of the Wayfarers books.  Like the previous books in the series, The Galaxy, is a story about how people from different walks of like can all band together and learn off each other. […]

“Finding the ocean was as simple a matter as letting a river lead you in the direction it wanted to go most.”

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers

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This one didn’t make me cry nearly as much as its predecessor, Psalm for the Wild-Built, but that shouldn’t make you think that it didn’t have an emotional impact, it did make me tear up on more than one occasion. Because this novella is a meditation on what we call the human condition. It is also a look at how we can live if society puts happiness and contentment first. If we don’t compete but instead cooperate. But its also the kind of novella that […]

will definitely without question be one of the best things I’ve read all year (although there’s lots of releases in the latter half of the year)

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers

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How to explain this book? This book is: – the feeling of a Sunday where the only thing you have to do is sleep, brush your teeth, and putter around – a warm hug from your favorite person – spending an afternoon with that friend who instinctively knows exactly how much or little conversation you can handle – platonic cuddles on a pleasantly full stomach when you’re pleasantly warm – wearing the perfectly right clothes for the weather – perfect word play that brings laughter […]



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