Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“burn before reading”

This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El -Mohtar & Max Gladstone

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If this is what the Time War feels like, then I volunteer as tribute. This two-hander from Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone burns bright right in the center of your chest and dares you to put it out. Red and Blue are operatives on either side of a war that has been going on since before time existed and well past the end of the universe. They are fierce and wild warriors; brilliant minds matched with brilliant and sharp teeth. They claw their way through […]

TEENS! IN! SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE!

The Disasters by M. K. England

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Got in juuuuuust under the wire with this one! Another #CannonBookClub pick, another book I probably wouldn’t have picked up without being told to do so! Fortunately, it was fast-paced, warm-hearted, just dangerous enough hold me in suspense, and (last but not least) cute. The basic set up is, well, pretty basic: misfit teens up against their own social structure and a corrupt regulatory force in a race against time to stop the big bad thing from being big and bad. The misfits get into […]

Becky Chambers and the Quest for Righteous Representation

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

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…because lord knows we cannot deal with any more from that dreadful she-who-must-not-be-named and her unquenchable desire to hurt the hearts and minds of the people who grew up with, admired, and felt welcomed by Harry Potter and company. People are who they say they are, and she-who-must-not-be-named can do us all a favor and shout her nonsense directly into a portal to hell. Anywho! Luckily, Becky Chambers is on the scene to raise our spirits through the roof and out into the beautiful and […]

Freaks, Geeks, and Automobiles

Role Models by John Waters

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Oooh mama, this is not for the faint of heart! If you aren’t already a fan of John Waters and his coterie of misfits and outsiders then this is NOT the place to start! I first became aware of John Waters through the 1990 film Cry-Baby. It used to be on TV fairly frequently in the late 90s/early Aughts, and I would secretly watch bits and pieces of it when my parents weren’t in the room. I had the “flashback” button on the remote primed and […]

Much More Of Everything Than I Was Expecting

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I picked this up after Julia in Austin reviewed and raved about another novel by Alexis Hall and mentioned For Real as a favorite.  This is actually the first M/M romance I’ve read, and it also has a BDSM focus.  I think I assumed the structure would be like most of the romance novels I am familiar with but with the sex having a BDSM spin.  As someone has since pointed out to me, when a novel markets itself as being BDSM or focused on […]

Victorian era sensational mystery

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I need to preface this review by saying this was my first foray into an audible book.  Audible was offering a free trial month with two books, so I decided to give it a shot and picked out this book along with the next one in the series.  I wasn’t sure how I’d like the experience, as I don’t have a long commute and I mostly prefer to read actual books as opposed to Kindle – but it was quite entertaining and it didn’t take […]



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