Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Your senses are your greatest enemies; they will be waiting to betray you.

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

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CBR 13 BINGO: Flora square (along top and right edge of cover) Somehow I missed this one when it was favorably (and unfavorably) reviewed a while back, but I follow some Instagram accounts that were raving about this series so I got curious. After a war between human mortals and faeries, the world is split. A wall is erected and humans are pushed behind it into the southlands. Generations of stories about powerful fae creatures that enslave, murder, and eat humans are handed down. Occasionally even stories […]

For someone who said back in February they didn’t like sci-fi, I sure as hell am reading an awful lot of sci-fi

The Original by Brandon Sanderson, Mary Robinette Kowal

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I have to confess I picked this book to read just because I was having a hard time finding a book with a cityscape on the cover. And this cityscape might be a little stylized, but there’s a reason for that and I’ll get into it, but let’s take a moment to celebrate Book Bingo incentivizing me to read. Hooray. The Original is a novella that was produced specifically to be launched as an audiobook, and I honestly love that concept. While I don’t think […]

This book gave me *a yearning*. #CBRBINGO – Flora

A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1) by Becky Chambers

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“. . . the robots left the factories and departed for the wilderness.” “Before long, Dex was no longer nursing something as simple as an odd fancy for a faraway insect. The itch had spread into every aspect of their life. When they looked up at the skyscrapers, they no longer marveled at their height but despaired at their density—endless stacks of humanity, packed in so close that the vines that covered their engineered casein frames could lock tendrils with one another. The intense feeling […]

Why does everyone just accept everything the AI says?

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

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So this book was an impulse buy. I saw the hardback at Waterstones with £3 off and it was just so pretty. Plus, Ishiguro won the Nobel Prize in Literature and I’d never read anything by him before, so had to have it. It was on my “near future” TBR until I read andtheIToldYouSos’s lovely review, which catapulted it straight to my “next read” slot. 🙂 Let me start a quick summary of the book: Klara is an AF, or Artificial Friend, who are sun-powered […]

Oscar Wilde reminds us that fairytales are not supposed to look like Disney

Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde: In Aid of the Royal Theatrical Fund by Oscar Wilde

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One of the good things to come out of the pandemic was the various ways artistic organizations came together to fundraise in a time where theaters were closed. I have lost count, for example, of how many performances of the Royal Opera House Ballet I’ve watched from the comfort of my own home. I know it’s really an overall sad thing how un-secure  (I somehow don’t think insecure was the appropriate word here, even though it probably was) artists and freelancers’ living is, but the […]

A boy leaves home to prove himself and wisely brings his dog

Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry

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CBR 13 Bingo: The Wilds I originally intended to do a “Lumberjanes” graphic novel for this square but can’t find it!  Instead I read Call It Courage, which was on my summer reading lists as a child but I never got around to reading.  My thirteen year old saw me and said that she had read it for school a few years ago, and that it has a great character arc.  Mafutu does go through transformation and growth but I’m not certain I would qualify […]



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