Cannonball Read 18

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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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“In three days,” he continued, “I will be your husband. I will take a solemn vow to protect you until death do us part. Do you understand what that means?” “You’ll save me from marauding minotaurs?”

Bridgerton: Romancing Mister Bridgerton (Penelope & Colin’s Story) by Julia Quinn

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In our last book, Colin Bridgerton put his foot firmly in his mouth where Penelope Featherington was concerned. He blames this on his mother hinting at Penelope as a potential bride (sure…blame someone else for your boorish behavior.) Now years later, Colin is still going on his jaunts around Europe, and Penelope is firmly on the shelf. Of course, with Colin back home for a brief spell and Penelope no longer worrying about being in Society’s eye, can anything change? And will Lady Danbury’s offer […]

Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo—“I was not. I was. I am not. I care not.”

Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife by Bart D. Ehrman

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* from a purely Western religion-focused viewpoint.   It was interesting to read about mainly Judaism/Christianity written by someone who was raised Episcopalian, became a Born-Again Christian and then chucked it all in to become an Atheist/Agnostic. Wanted to say to him “You think you’ll get letters over not believing in Heaven, Hell, or life after death? Not over the fact that you state Jesus was just some random Jewish prophet, and not in any way the Son of God? That won’t get a few […]

“Whatever comes of it, I’ll learn more than I know now.” “Unless,” I pointed out, “you die.” He shrugged. “Well. We all have to stop learning sometime.”

A Far Better Thing by H.G. Parry

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I feared this was the best of times; I hoped it could not get any worse. Let’s synopsize: Sydney Carton was stolen as a child and forced to serve the Faery Realm. Charles Darnay is his changeling; Lucie Manette is the changeling of Ivy, Sydney’s childhood friend. Sydney wants revenge on the fae and Darnay for how his life has turned out. The French Revolution happens. This is a homage to A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. Spoiler Alert: I discuss plot points of […]

“Free speech may be part of the ideal of any revolution, but soon enough it becomes free speech only where the government approves of it.”

Scarlet (Scarlet Revolution #1) by Genevieve Cogman

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It is 1793 and the French Revolution is in full swing. Vampires, who are as usual, portrayed as rich and aristocratic (they’re blood-sucking leeches who also happen to be corpses; how is this not the White Trash Central group? Though yes, even without being vampiric they’d still be leeches; they are rich after all.) are the largest group to slake the guillotine’s thirst. Luckily for the 1%, The mysterious Scarlet Pimpernel, a disguised British noble, and his League are heroically rescuing dozens of aristocrats from […]

“Yes, I suppose this will teach us all not to prioritize murder before drunkenness,” said I.

The Angel of the Crows by Katherine Addison

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This is not the story you think it is. These are not the characters you think they are. This is not the book you are expecting. (ain’t that the truth?) In an alternate 1880s London, angels inhabit every public building, and vampires and werewolves walk the streets with human beings in a well-regulated truce. And those human beings remain all too human, with all their kindness and greed and passions and murderous intent. Murderers still stalk the streets of this London too. But this London has […]

“As the sensation rose, you filled with contempt for a stranger’s insanity. You had enough of your own to contend with.”

Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb #2) by Tamsyn Muir

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She answered the Emperor’s call (as if she ever had a choice). She arrived with her arts, her wits, her neverending death wish, and her only friend (not that she’d admit to that before it was all too late.) Oh, your cavaliers are young? And they fight? How classic! So jejune!-but that would not have been the wild and confident fuck-you of the Ninth House. The Ninth House character, she was forced to admit, had always been low on wild and confident fucks. In victory, […]



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