Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“I’d take a racoon to the face for you any day, Rose Evans.”

Scythe & Sparrow by Brynne Weaver

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Buzzword Cover Challenge 25: Transportation Doctor Fionn Kane is doing just fine in the little Nebraska town he retreated to after leaving his promising surgical career and ex-fiancee behind. He doesn’t really want anything to do with the past-times of either of his brothers and is keeping his head down, running and working out when he’s not working in his small medical clinic or the hospital. He also crochets. Then a beautiful woman with a severe leg injury ends up nearly unconscious on the floor […]

Final 2024 Leftovers

1876 by Gore Vidal

Joe Country by Mick Herron

James by Percival Everett

Slough House by Mick Herron

Kiss Her Goodbye by Allan Guthrie

The Contemplative Tarot: A Christian Introduction to the cards by Brittany Muller

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Hope everyone had a wonderful 2024. Remember that while we can’t control the horrors of the world, there is joy to be found in the presence of those we love. 1876**** Didn’t hit as hard as Burr; Burr’s presence was the center of the story that made it go, whereas this book wants to highlight every major player in the 1876 election. But Vidal does a good job of evoking the atmosphere of the time: the unapologetic corruption, the paranoia of another war and the […]

You didn’t bring bullets to a magic fight. It bruised our sense of spectacle.

The Last Sun: The Tarot Sequence Book One by K.D. Edwards

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“Do we need to talk about last night?” he asked. “Absolutely. That’s how I always get ready for battle, talking about my feelings” ― K.D. Edwards, The Last Sun “Oh, I get it. You think this is one of them big, fancy rescues. Boy are you about to be embarrassed.” ― K.D. Edwards, The Last Sun “You saved me,” Matthias said to me from behind Brand. I couldn’t quite identify the expression that lit up his face, but it wasn’t nearly as comfortable as plain […]

Nah.

The Cloisters by Katy Hays

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What it comes down to is that I found this book extremely unpleasant. And also dull. And reading it made me feel like I would rather be banging my head against something very solid. This was made even more frustrating by glimmers of stuff I probably would have found very intriguing in another author’s hands, or in another type of story altogether. The Cloisters is about a woman whose name I have long forgotten who is heading to her first post-graduate job, supposedly at the […]

Angst!

The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater

The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater

Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater

The Raven King by Maggie Stiefvater

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“It was funny, the Gray Man thought, how humorous she always appeared, how that smile was always just a moment away from her lips. You really didn’t see the sadness or the longing unless you already knew it was there. But that was the trick, wasn’t it? Everyone had their disappointment and their baggage; only, some people carried it in their inside pockets and not on their backs. And here was the other trick: Maura was not faking her happiness. She was both very happy […]

Is That a Pack of 18th-Century Divination Cards in Your Pocket, or Are You Just Happy to See Me?

Lozzy's Complete Guide To Lenormand: Workbook Edition by Lozzy Phillips

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I’m awful at cocktail parties. I don’t handle small talk well. As an introvert who presents as an extrovert, the idea of asking what twenty people do for a living is exhausting. It’s much more interesting to really have one good, deep, revealing conversation. Which is why for over thirty years, I’m the weird chick who looks up at you as you’re going for seconds on the chilled shrimp and mumbles, “I’ve got a deck of Tarot cards in my pocket. Wanna meet on the […]



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