Cannonball Read 17

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 4 cats (Gallifrey, 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.

bjornsnipe's Reviews:

“How easy it is to leave things undone until they are too late.”

Sovereign: A Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery by C.J. Sansom

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In my love affair for both Historical Murder Mysteries and series whose books get progressively more brick-like the longer they go on, I tackled Sovereign, the third in the Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery series. And I don’t really regret that I did. Set this time in York during the great Progress Henry VIII took after the near civil war of 1541, York truly comes alive, with the Minster and St. Mary’s Church shown particular love. Sansom paints a pretty good picture of how as much […]

Even Murder Can Be Groovy

It's A Mod, Mod, Mod, Mod Murder by Rosemary Martin

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We all need harmless little fluff books in our lives, and this is one of the fluffiest. It’s 1964 and 22 year old Elizabeth “Bebe” Bennett, recently out of secretarial school in Richmond, Virginia, is loving her new independent life in New York. A month out from her move from Richmond, Virginia, she has a job as the secretary to the dreamy Bradley Williams, vice president of talent company Rip City Records. Bebe spends her days hard at work, daydreaming about the future when after […]

“Nice things don’t happen in storybooks or when they do happen, something bad happens next. Because otherwise the story would be boring, and no one would read it.”

The Cruel Prince: The Folk of the Air Book One by Holly Black

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“If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse.” There are books I read and hate, books I read and like, books I read and enjoy, and books that I read and become so obsessed with they take up far too much space in my head; this is one that fits in the last category. Jude Duarte lived in the mortal world (probably somewhere in the New Jersey/New York area as that seems to be where Holly Black bases most of […]

“Run away with me. You like tea. I like books. Care to open a shop and forget the world exists?”

Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea by Rebecca Thorne

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Don’t we all want to run away with the person we love to open a bookshop/cafe in a small village somewhere? That’s all Reyna and Kianthe want to do. However, when one’s the guard of a tantrum-prone murderous queen and the other’s the most powerful mage in the land, it’s a bit difficult. After getting kidnapped, Reyna decides that the spoiled little bit of royalty she works for has had enough of her life, and finally takes Kianthe up on her offer to run away […]

This Book Could Have Stayed A Secret

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

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If you want a book where the author is obviously impressed with both the sound of their own voice and their cleverness, definitely buy this one. Every page just screamed “I’m trying to write the next Great Novel!” as the writing dragged on and on. Time lost meaning reading this book; I’d read for 12 hours and cover 1/3 of the book only to discover I had actually read for 20 minutes and had finished 2 paragraphs. The plot (such as it is), centers around […]

“I cannot conceive of a universe without you in it”

Gideon the 9th by Tamsyn Muir

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Gideon, tired disaster gay of the Ninth House, just wants to leave. Tired of the creepy nuns, the oppressive tomb that’s considered living quarters and the promise that upon death her skeleton will continue to be press-ganged into serving the Ninth House, she packs her clothes and her dirty magazines and attempts to hit the spaceport. Only Harrowhark Nonagesimus, Reverend Daughter of the Ninth House and bone witch extraordinaire, won’t let her go. See, the Emperor of the Universe has summoned the heirs of all […]



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