Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Re-reading Mistborn, Part Five

Shadows of Self (Mistborn, #5) by Brandon Sanderson

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Still love this. Neat to see the pieces set up beforehand. I will be honest with you. I do not want to write this review. Sometimes you just don’t want to make thoughts about the things you love. But I have to write this review, at least 250 words, because of made up commitments that I could totally ignore if I really wanted to (hello, CBR, I cross-posted this to Goodreads!), but instead hold myself to anyway, because apparently doing that is something my subconscious […]

A third re-read for a book whose series I never thought I would continue.

The Magicians (The Magicians, #1) by Lev Grossman

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I have once again re-read this book. (I blame my Narnia re-read, and also I wanted to read it one last time before I started watching the TV show.) My past self would be devastated to learn I have gotten even more out of this read than I did the last. I still really dislike most of these characters, especially when we reach the middle section after they graduate from Brakebrills and become disaffected young adults. I never went through this stage of life and […]

“There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.”

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (The Chronicles of Narnia, #5) by C.S. Lewis

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I always liked this one as a kid, but it was never my favorite. It had an edge of This Is Too Real about it at the time, which looking back now is hilarious because there is nothing realistic about this book. But as a kid, I found the constant mentions of death and the afterlife (even if just a metaphorical afterlife) disturbing. Which is weird, because in other contexts, I didn’t mind reading about those things. There was just something strange to me, I […]

Triple Cannonballing with Annie Wilkes. #CBRBINGO – Gateway

Misery by Stephen King

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There is some dated language and imagery in here that I don’t think King would use now (his modern books don’t ping anything for me) and that I don’t think I noticed last time, but overall this book is still great. This is the only Stephen King book (so far) that I’ve re-read. Eventually, once I finish up all his extant work (which could take me a while!) I will do a chronological re-read of all his books. That will be a project, for sure. […]

“I am, unfortunately, the Hero of Ages.”

The Hero of Ages (Mistborn, #3) by Brandon Sanderson

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Still a great ending to this series. This was one of the best endings to a book series I’d ever read back in 2013, and it’s still in that category eight years later. It’s an ending that is so good it single handedly elevates everything that came before it, which was already pretty damn good to start with. It’s one of those endings that makes so much sense in retrospect but is almost impossible to predict. Sanderson expertly sets your expectations throughout the whole trilogy […]

“Wouldn’t it be dreadful if some day in our own world, at home, men start going wild inside, like the animals here, and still look like men, so that you’d never know which were which.”

Prince Caspian (The Chronicles of Narnia, #4) by C.S. Lewis

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This book was always my favorite of the series. Something about the kids coming back to Narnia only a year later, but it having been hundreds, maybe thousands of years in the meantime, and their former castle of Cair Paravel now a ruin they have to unearth, and the quest to reclaim Narnia from ill-doers was just so very appealing to me as a kid and young adult. A large part of my affection for it still exists in the many, many re-reads I did […]



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