Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

All the fuss

This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

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I chose this book based on popularity and on its genre. It tells the story of two agents, red and blue, fighting across time and worlds as part of an ongoing war between their two organizations. As they dip in and out of time, they begin a correspondence. Through this correspondence, we learn bits and pieces about who they are, what and how they are made, and the role they and their kind play. As their flirting develops into deeper feelings, they must each decide […]

“Peterson remembered with a smile that the US Department of the Interior had made a thorough prediction of trends in 1937, and had missed atomic energy, computers, radar, antibiotics, and World War II. Yet they all kept on, with this simple-minded linear extrapolation that was, despite a bank of computers to refine the numbers, still merely a new way to be stupid in an expensive fashion.”

Timescape by Gregory Benford

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The world is dying and some some scientists make a literal last ditch effort to send a message back in time in an attempt to avert the present day ecological crisis. We follow both the present day scientists in their attempts to save the world, and the scientists in the past as they try to decode the strange interference that seems to be coming from nowhere. I had such good luck reading classic sf in 2020, but in 2021 and now 2022 my choices have […]

“It never occurred to me that you might be mine.”

In a Holidaze by Christina Lauren

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One of the prevailing bits of wisdom running around if you happen to find yourself with COVID (which I probably do – not to worry, I’m not feeling too poorly, have plenty of supplies, and have a test scheduled) is to avoid screens. With that in mind, and cognizant that my brain does not want to focus on anything weighty (which is seriously impinging on my ability to finish So You Want to Talk About Race and Eva Luna) I settled in on the couch […]

Lost in The Midnight Library

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

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The Midnight Library by Matt Haig has an intriguing premise of exploring potential lives. The main character Nora arrives in a mysterious library after trying to commit suicide. She is depressed and the loss of her cat sends her over the edge. The book introduces a type of time travel where Nora experiences the what-if situations from her life. She picks a book on the shelf and becomes transported into a new life where she makes a different choice. What if she stayed in her […]

What would you do to change your past

The future of another timeline by Annalee Newitz

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The future of another timeline is a time travel book. It is also a book about the ongoing struggle for equal rights. It starts in 1992, from the perspective of a time traveller who has returned to an important moment in her past, and an opportunity to change something about her past. The book is told in alternate chapters between Tess- the traveler, and Beth – the girl for whom 1992 is her current life. There are 5 Machines, that enable time travel, provided certain […]

Agatha Christie meets Groundhog Day

The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

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The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton was recommended/chosen by my Mocha Girls Read book club in May. I definitely heard the hype for his book in several book groups along with Cannonball Read. Thus, I’m reviewing it for the “Rec’d” bingo square. I was confused as to why they changed the US title to “7 1/2 Deaths” from the original “Seven Deaths”. Apparently, the publisher wanted to distinguish it from The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid. I […]



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