Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“If you’re going to make a desperate, hopeless act of defiance you should make it a good one.”

Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1) by Ann Leckie

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Upping this to five stars upon re-read. Breq makes me feel feelings. I remember where I was when I read this first time, and I distinctly remember reading the first third or so of this book and just being profoundly confused about what was going on, but also thinking to myself, when I re-read this, it’s going to make so much more sense, and that turned out to be true. But what did surprise me on re-read is that not everything is completely clear, and […]

I think I might be done with YA sci-fi.

Ignite the Stars (Ignite the Stars, #1) by Maura Milan

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So many mixed feelings about this! I picked this up mostly because I needed to fill the “book by an AOC set in or about space” challenge for Read Harder, but it had been a while since I’d read any YA sci-fi, and I figured it’d been long enough that I might enjoy myself. I do not believe I have ever *really* enjoyed a YA sci-fi novel. The length and subject matter limitations on YA really cut back on what I enjoy most about sci-fi, […]

Great except for the bits where I wanted to put it in the freezer.

Recursion by Blake Crouch

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Why must Blake Crouch give me all this nightmare fuel? I’m serious, I don’t know why I thought I could get out of this book without my brain being swirled into funnels of terrorized adrenaline. There was little inkling of it in Dark Matter with SPOILERS all of those parallel worlds, and several of them being nuclear wastelands, but that was after the fact. Here, we get it up close and personal and in the moment. Seven times. What the fuck END SPOILERS. I swear, […]

Jewish, Immigrant(s, they get the job done) (Bingo: Own Voices)

The Fever King by Victoria Lee

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The US has been ravaged by war and disease (and war over disease) and Noam Álvaro is sixteen and the child of Atlantean (Georgia, that is, not Atlantis) illegal immigrants to Carolina who is involved in the Atlantean Rights movement — until he, too, falls sick with the Fever. Unlike most of the population, however, Noam survives — and wakes up a technomancer, with the ability to talk to computer systems and all manner of technology. And then things get worse.

Feelings, free will, and a robot adventure: CBR Bingo – Two heads are better than one, Bingo!

Cog by Greg Van Eekhout

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Completing the “Two heads are better than one” square fulfills my bingo column, “Cannonballer Says” to “Remix”, and gives me my first bingo!  I used my “Reader’s Choice” to replace “Remix” with “Classic”. Dome’Loki Greg van Eekhout is a local San Diego author who frequently does events at my favorite independent bookstore, Mysterious Galaxy.  He writes for both adult and middle grade audiences.  Greg’s two most recent books are middle grade and as a result, it has been great fun to take my kids with […]

Don’t waste your time.

Vessel by Lisa A. Nichols

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Spoilers for this book, because I’m NOT recommending it and I very much would like y’all to know why. The blurb from Amazon is: An astronaut returns to Earth after losing her entire crew to an inexplicable disaster, but is her version of what happened in space the truth? Or is there more to the story…A tense, psychological thriller perfect for fans of Dark Matter and The Martian.  That sounded intriguing and I’m always down for sci-fi thrillers, but this books so relentlessly stupid that I only finished […]



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