Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

The Skin You Are In…

Emergency Skin by N. K. Jemisin

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  Definitely going to read the other stories in this collection. This was a wonderful way to pass the day in bed on Sunday. Also this weekend in the U.S. we should be seeing a  cool down. There is even snow happening in some parts. And as for me I am going leaf peeping. So this book was the perfect thing to read especially with the discussion of climate change going on. So “Emergency Skin” follows an unseen narrator talking to someone who is going […]

Fresh Fantasy

How Long Til Black Future Month? by N.K. Jemisin

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It took me a long time to get through this book, but not because I didn’t like it. I really loved many of the stories in this collection. Jemisin’s prose is tight, and fresh, and wonderful. She creates full-bodied characters in small spaces, and in many ways, the largest reason it took me almost a whole month to read was because I’d be so bereft at having to leave a  character or environment that I love, and I simply wasn’t ready to move on to […]

How long ’til black future month?

How Long 'Til Black Future Month? by N.K. Jemisin

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I picked this book up purely on the strength of my love for N.K. Jemisin.  I’m generally not a fan of the short story format.  The only short story collections I’ve read cover to cover are the ones written by Neil Gaiman, who is very high on my favorite author list.  N.K. Jemisin is an incredible author who creates fantastic worlds so I anticipated enjoying the book, but I was blown away at how her short fiction thoroughly engaged me in a way that the […]

So much world to be explored

The Shadowed Sun by N. K. Jemisin

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Even in her weakest books, N. J. Jemisin creates the kind of detailed, sprawling, fully realized worlds that would make C. S. Lewis weep. At the end of The Shadowed Sun is a six page glossary of terms invented for this world she has brought to life, and the book has the worldbuilding to support it. Very few authors can create whole-cloth the way Jemisin can. I wish I could live in this woman’s imagination. The Shadowed Sun in book two in the Dreamblood series, following The Killing […]

Without Darkness, how could we recognize the light?

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (Inheritance Trilogy #1) by N.K. Jemisin

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I received this book in 2015. The fact that I haven’t read it until now says far more about the depth of my “to be read” pile than it does the quality of this novel. I promise you that.

Everything I knew I always wanted

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I keep hearing things about N. K. Jemisin, but my reading list is so long. HOWEVER. Jemisin ticks so many boxes for CBR 10 Bingo – award winner, birthday, start of a series, etc that I made space. I was very surprised to find that my library had no Jemisin books in the collection, so requested a copy of The Fifth Season via interlibrary loan based on recommendations on the CBR FB page. Thank you, folks, for the excellent recommendation! This is the first book […]



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