Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

If you hit me with your cane again, you’re gone

a good myth is hard to kill by MajorGodComplex

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Kaz is a smart man, but not smart enough to reconsider snarking the most powerful man in the world when dragged out of Ketterdam and across the fold to work for him. Kaz isn’t worried. He’s got plot armor. The Darkling showed his hand much too early with all of that ‘together we’ll change the world’ bullshit.  Still, when the shadows begin to close in on him he can’t help but consider the possibility he may have miscalculated. ……………. Thanks to his black kefta, that’s […]

Does any part of you still look at the sky and hurt?

Opal by Maggie Stiefvater

Call Down the Hawk by Maggie Stiefvater

Mister Impossible by Maggie Stiefvater

Greywaren by Maggie Stiefvater

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“She didn’t want this, she thought. She wanted to stop being afraid.. and she wanted a future that didn’t look exactly like her past. There had to be something they could do. This wasn’t living, it was just giving up while still breathing.” ― Maggie Stiefvater, Call Down the Hawk “Farooq-Lane’s fist smarted as if it had just been smashed against a douchebag’s face, because it had just been smashed against a douchebag’s face.” ― Maggie Stiefvater, Call Down the Hawk Spoilers for The Raven […]

“Sometimes, death is a blessing, even if we don’t realize it right away.”

Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune

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I was gifted Under the Whispering Door Winter Solstice, 2021.  Narfna described it as a ‘warm hug’ in her review and I wanted to save it for when such a book was needed.  Somehow almost a year has passed and it sat on the shelf.  When looking for my next read I swear I could hear the book say, “You should read me before you get more books for this year’s Winter Solstice book exchange”.  The book had a point so I picked it up and […]

You’re just gonna assume they’re a she?

Heartstopper Volume 1 by Alice Oseman

Heartstopper Volume 2 by Alice Oseman

Heartstopper Volume 3 by Alice Oseman

Heartstopper Volume 4 by Alice Oseman

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  I love him so, so much. But what I’ve realized through all of this is that we need other people too: siblings, parents, friends, more friends, a therapist. Even teachers sometimes. That doesn’t mean our relationship isn’t strong. ― Alice Oseman, Heartstopper Volume 4 I’ve been working my way through my recommendation list lately. As soon as I wrap up one series, I’m sad that it is over. I tend to go looking for something along the same lines. After falling in love with […]

Elegantly written Edwardian fantasy, murder mystery, gay romance

A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske

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First of all, Thank you, again, llamareadbooks for gifting me this book in the Cannonball Book Exchange!  A book that combines several genres I enjoy was almost guaranteed to be a hit but it is the beautiful writing that makes this such a wonderful read. You look like a Turner painting and I want to learn your textures with my fingertips.  You are the most fascinating thing in this beautiful house.  I’d like to introduce my fist to whoever taught you to stop talking about […]

Weirdos, teenagers, degenerates, and women

Ship It by Britta Lundin

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“Real writing” is done by serious people, whereas fanfiction is written by weirdos, teenagers, degenerates, and women.” This is a comics convention. When did this industry start caring about what fourteen-year-old girls like? Have you ever found a book that feels as if it was written just for you? From the first two chapters, I was in love with this book. Small town girl – Check. Self-identified outcast – Check. Obsessed over a band or a show or a movie to the point of writing […]



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