Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Books have been a part of my life from a very young age . I'm currently being ruled over by 3 cats (Rafferty, Bodhi Rook & Yersinia Pestis), who I can mostly get not to chew on book covers. Lately, I'll read anything, though Science Fiction and Romance will always be on the bottom of the pile.

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“That on the other side of the winter that took my children…My god, there has to be a spring.”

Idolfire by Grace Curtis

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In Ash, on one side of the world, Aleya Ana-Ulai, City Guard and bastard of the royal family, is desperate for a chance to prove herself. Her family may have written her off as a mistake, but she’ll prove all of them wrong. Or die trying. On the other, Kirby of Wall’s End is searching for redemption and her village’s lost idol. An ancient curse may have killed her brother (though that may have been faulty architecture), be leading to the death of her village, […]

“What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.”-Augustus Saint-Gaudens

Stan and Gus: Art, Ardor, and the Friendship That Built the Gilded Age by Henry Wiencek

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When  I first read about this book in The NY Times Book Review, I knew I had to have it. Having grown up on a steady diet of  hearing about “Ragtime” and “The Girl on the Velvet Swing”, or how about how Clover Adams’s Memorial was on my mother’s must-see list, any book that covered any and all of that was something I needed to read. Thankfully, this did not disappoint. Stan and Gus covers the working (and potentially sexual) relationship of Standford White and […]

“If all else fails, we will simply have to drug our attendants, overpower the guards, raise the oppressed peasants to arms, and take over the government.”

The Last Camel Died At Noon: An Amelia Peabody Mystery by Elizabeth Peters

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         It’s a sad fact, but it’s a true one: the last camel just dropped dead, leaving Amelia, Emerson and Ramses to slowly die of dehydration or exposure (whichever will kill them first) under the desert sun in the winter of 1897. But then again, they have only themselves to blame for giving up a perfectly decent dig site to chase after some fool of an English aristocrat looking for his uncle and his uncle’s young bride, who disappeared into the desert […]

Romeo and Juliet, But Make Them Lesbians

Fate's Bane by C.L. Clark

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 The Clan Aradoc and Clan Fein, two clans of the fens, have tenuous peace brought about by the taking of Agnir of Clan Fein into Clan Aradoc as a ward/hostage. For almost as long as she can remember she has been both a part of and apart from the Clan, learning their ways and growing up amongst their children, but never truly accepted as one of them. Except for Hadhnri, Chieftan’s daughter, who thinks of Agnir as not just of the clan, but as someone […]

Maybe Scrooge shouldn’t have offered that Smoking Bishop. Bob Cratchitt might have been better off.

Cratchitt: "A Christmas Carol" Continues by R.M. Bouknight

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Thirteen years ago, the Spirits of Christmas visited Ebeneezer Scrooge to turn his life around. Now, it’s Bob Cratchitt’s turn. This was certainly an interesting continuation of A Christmas Carol; I don’t think anyone at the end of the first book would expect Bob Cratchitt of forgetting Christmas, but here he certainly has. No one in the Cratchitts are really happy, in fact, and it all comes back to Bob and his social climbing which this author compares to Scrooge, a man who became so […]

“Little thing. You think you can just take, and take, and take until there is no more. No. The sea remembers your debts. And I will collect. I am going to take the thing you most love from you.”

The Burial Tide: A Novel by Neil Sharpson

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  One stormy night on Inishbannock, an eerily quiet island off the coast of Ireland, a woman with no memory wakes up in a coffin. Clawing herself out of the grave and into the night, the woman soon to be named Mara Fitch discovers that not everyone on the island welcomes her sudden return to life. Of course her return is not the only oddity; a sudden plague that killed only four people on the island, and was never reported to the mainland. The sudden […]



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