Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Where is an editor when you need one?

Wind and Truth by Brandon Sanderson

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I have quite enjoyed the Stormlight Archive series; Wind and Truth is the fifth in a 10 novel series. It is hard to summarize a book that sits right in the middle of a really planned out high fantasy series, but for folks who are not familiar, I will try. The series is set on a word called Roshar, and the background for everything is that the majority of the human population has been at war with another species for eons. Even within the humans, […]

Listener, Singer, Human

Rhythm of War: Book 4 of the Stormlight Archives by Brandon Sanderson

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Continuing in the Stormlight Archives, Rhythm of War focuses on Venli, the Listener turned Voidbringer, whose mostly at fault for causing all the calamities befalling our heroes. As always, we hear from all the characters as the book progresses, but Venili is front and center. While it was awesome to finally have the perspective of the non-human characters, and to understand the full weight of human destruction on Roshar’s native peoples, going back through Venli’s past retreads a lot of material already covered in the previous […]

Sanderson is getting Martinitis with the Stormlight Archive

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You guys, this book is long. LOOOOOONNNGGGG. It took me over a month to read half of it – I took it out from the library months ago, there was a reserve on it so I couldn’t renew it, and had to pick it back up four months later and I STILL struggled to read it on time, despite being very eager to finish the story. While it’s not quite into Game of Thrones territory in terms of needing edits, but it’s in the ballpark. […]

Episode 1-19: Going Insane, Got No Brain

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https://killingmykindle.com/2018/05/14/episode-1-19-going-insane-got-no-brain/ Wherein I review: 67. The Burning Maze (The Trials of Apollo #3) by Rick Riordan 68. Deranged: The Shocking True Store of America’s Most Fiendish Killer by Harold Schechter 69. Lies, Damned Lies, and History (St. Mary’s Chronicles #7) by Jodi Taylor 70. Oathbringer (Stormlight Archive #3) by Brandon Sanderson 71. Homesick for Another World by Ottessa Moshfegh Lots of crazies up in this piece.  Apollo finds his third Emperor.  Harold Schechter scribbles about Albert Fish.  Jodi Taylor soldiers on through the time travel.  […]

Episode 1-16: All Roads Lead to Rat

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https://killingmykindle.com/2018/04/23/episode-1-16-all-roads-lead-to-rat/ Wherein I review: 53. The Stainless Steel Rat Returns (Stainless Steel Rat #11) by Harry Harrison 54. A Trail Through Time (St. Mary’s Chronicles #4) by Jodi Taylor 55. The Woman in the Woods (Charlie Parker #16) by John Connolly 56. Words of Radiance (Stormlight Archive #2) by Brandon Sanderson 57. Midnight Crossroad (Midnight, Texas #1) by Charlaine Harris 58. Stainless Steel Visions (Stainless Steel Rat #12) by Harry Harrison For the love of God, I finally finished the f–king Stainless Steel Rat series.  […]

A Side Quest, If You Will

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Edgedancer is a small novella about the character Lift from Brandon Sanderson’s Stormlight Archive series, wherein we get a little more exposition regarding her character and how she falls into her role in Oathbringer, after first being introduced via a small interlude section in Words of Radiance. As far as the book goes, it is a quick and fun little adventure that fits easily within the already established story. It does, however, also serve (as mentioned in the post-notes) to solve a few problems and continuity issues within […]



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