Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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Possible Death By Lunar Cheese Volcano

When the Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi

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When the Moon Hits Your Eye is not really a straightforward story. The premise is basically “What if the moon actually turned to cheese, suddenly and unexplicably? How would people react?” Each chapter is a mini-episode of a couple of people trying to figure out what is going on, and what they think and how they feel about it.  These episodes range from a group of retirees in a diner, to a couple of young adults working at rival cheese shops, to NASA scientists, to […]

Back to basics in a good way

Plant Based Cookbook by Trish Sebben-Krupka

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I somehow only just realized that the bargains shelves at Barnes and Noble actually have an online equivalent; I was trying to reach a threshold of some sort (maybe sped X to get Y off?) and found the $5 Plant Based Cookbook. It’s kind of basic, but I still think it might have been a good impulse grab, so to speak. I think what this one’s going to be best for is a set of recipes including things I remember liking before but not quite […]

And in conclusion maybe we skip some bits and pretend we knew all along

Noragami vol 27 by Adachitoka

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 Noragami series finale, volume 27 wrapped up most threads, but parts were rushed. The thing that bothered me most was the initial connection between Hiyori and Yato that got ignored for a good chunk of the middle and final acts suddenly gets relevant again, and it doesn’t work with such a major gap. I’m also not sure what happened with Bishamon and Kazuma, but suddenly there’s a scene with them just chatting in the immediate aftermath of a zombie apocalypse (that’s the nearest equivalent, even […]

Happy endings are for grown-ups too

Greenteeth by Molly O'Neill

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I am now convinced that “cozy” basically means there will be tropes generally presented in an entertaining way, and that while drama of various sorts is an option, most all will be well in the end. Basically, happy endings are now allowed in “adult” fiction. Exhibit 1: Greenteeth by Molly O’Neill. I actually picked this up in an airport bookshop (the kind where you can return it within 6 months for a partial refund, but in my case, it was kind of an exchange, so […]

The opposite of dark academia might be cozy

The English Experience by Julie Schumacher

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The English Experience is parody and gentle satire of a college professor and college work that also fits the cozy genre is almost fantasy, but not the D&D type. It’s the kind of thing most people who have not worked in academia probably think (erroneously, hence the fantasy) being a professor is like. Who wouldn’t want to lead study abroad, free trip, right? Wrong, mostly for reasons the story takes up in some way. Rather like its two predecessors, The English Experience is mostly only […]

How the legend might have started with books before lattes

Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree

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What’s cozy in the same way as a latte? Second-hand books. That’s what we get with Bookshops & Bonedust, and I’m down with that. This is a pretty good prequel, but it can be done as a stand-alone, and it also does a nice job of maybe setting up volume 3. The whole story starts with young and eager Viv getting ahead of herself and getting injured in a fight. The rest of her team leaves her behind to recover in middle of nowhere Murk, […]



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