Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

A good ending! But still not as good as the first one.

Any Way the Wind Blows (Simon Snow, #3) by Rainbow Rowell

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I will be honest. I do not want to review this book. First of all, I liked it. And I liked it better than the second one. It felt so comfortable to be back in England (and at Watford!) with these characters, and I was satisfied by all their endings, even the ones I didn’t see coming. But it also gave me a couple things I’ve been wanting since book one, so on that front I was very happy as well. There was resolution for […]

When Fan-Fic Sticks the Ending Better then the Original

Any Way the Wind Blows by Rainbow Rowell

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Bingo Just Because: Reader’s Choice Even though I’ve already posted the review to fill in my bingo card, I still wanted to do this out of stubbornness, and because I have another book finished that would have probably ended up in this square anyways. So, Any Way the Wind Blows is the finale of the Simon Snow trilogy, the Harry Potter fan-fic originally created for the stand-alone novel Fangirl, which was actually my introduction to the author Rainbow Rowell. I have to admit, in spite […]

“I brought you a cow once, remember? And I killed that chimera for you in fifth year.”

Any Way the Wind Blows by Rainbow Rowell

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CBR Bingo: People Spoiler warning! This is book 3 in a trilogy, which wraps up a number of very important threads left dangling after the previous book. So after the brief plot summary, there WILL be spoilers in the review. If you are new to the wonderful world of Simon Snow (and Baz, and Penny and Agatha), the place to start is Carry On. This book starts pretty much immediately after our fearsome foursome (and Shepard)’s return from America to England. Simon, still in emotional […]

A more than sufficient ending.

Any Way the Wind Blows by Rainbow Rowell

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“I understand that you’ve lost something— a lot of things— but you’re still the same person. I know, because I loved you then, and I love you now, and I know that’s not enough to make you happy— to make anyone happy— but you’re the same person, Simon. You’re still you.” ”It’s enough,” he finally grumbles. ”What is,” I whisper. ”The fact that you love me. It does make me happy.” The group is back from their wild adventure in America and they are all […]

Steamy and Cute

Any Way the Wind Blows by Rainbow Rowell

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Faintingviolet turned me into a Rainbow Rowell superfan a few years ago, so I was very excited to get a beautiful special edition hardcopy of Any Way the Wind Blows for my birthday this year. The third and final chapter of the Simon Snow trilogy (which apparently wasn’t ever supposed to be a trilogy), follows our favorite cast of characters back to England where a whole bunch of new “Chosen Ones” are cropping up. Baz finds out his step-mother’s joined one of the Chosen One […]

Is this what people do?

Any Way the Wind Blows by Rainbow Rowell

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CBR13 BINGO: Rec’d square (Cannonball Read has been my go-to when looking for something to read for as long as it has been around. That’s over a decade of recommendations, folks. One of the greatest loves of my reading life is Rainbow Rowell and I have to thank many, many great Cannonballers for that. So, I’m stretching the Rec’d Square here a bit because it wasn’t one specific Cannonballer who recommended this book in particular. It was a group effort recommending the author in general. While I may have come […]



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