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.

bjornsnipe's Reviews:

At Least It’s Not Mushrooms This Time

What Feasts At Night: Sworn Soldier #2 by T. Kingfisher

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After the nightmare-inducing occurrence at the Usher manor, Alex Easton just wants some rest, relaxation, and calm days, but instead, as a favor to their valet Angus and the mycologist Miss Potter, they find themself heading to their family hunting lodge, deep in the cold, damp, forbidding forests of their home country, Gallacia. Once there, they discover the gamekeeper dead, the villagers closed in and suspicious, with whispers of a strange breath-stealing spirit entering people’s dreams. Alex doesn’t believe it for an instant; but then […]

“Pray For the Dead, Fight Like Hell For the Living”

Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor by Kim Kelly

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Teen Vogue columnist and independent labor reporter Kim Kelly delves into the history of American Labor, how long people have been striking for more rights and better pay, and how truly far we still have to go. From the coal mines and the garment factories to the airlines, the strip clubs and Amazon warehouses, from California to New York, she lays out how sometimes a few people can spark a movement and make big changes. As someone who grew up hearing about the effectiveness of […]

Half a soul is better than none

Half A Soul: A Regency Faerie Tale by Olivia Atwater

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When Theodora Ettings was a small child, a faerie came and stole half her soul. Since then, she lives her life like she’s behind a sheet of glass, observing things yet never actually feeling them. When she goes with her cousin Vanessa into London for the new season, her only desire is to fade into the background and not ruin Vanessa’s chance at a match. Unfortunately for her, she attracts the notice of Lord Elias Wilder, the Lord Sorcier of England, who decides she’s a […]

Gee, are you socially awkward?

Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett

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Emily Wilde, Cambridge professor, needs to travel to the small village of Hrafnsvik in Iceland to compile additional folk legends to present at the Folklorist Conference soon to be happening in Paris. This is incredibly difficult for her, as she prefers her books and the company of her dog, Shadow, to actually interacting with anyone. The situation is worsened upon the arrival of her colleague/friend/rival Wendell Bambleby, whose easy charm with the locals threatens her chance to show him up once and for all. However, […]

Or You Could Try Talking Sometime?

The Perils of Lady Catherine de Bourgh: A Mr. Darcy & Miss Tilney Mystery by Claudia Gray

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Claudia Gray has written a series of murder mysteries set in Jane Austen’s Regency England, populated with characters from her most well-known books. The two main characters, however are OCs; Jonathan Darcy, the son of Fitzwilliam Darcy and Elizabeth Bennett (of Pride and Prejudice fame) and Juliet Tilney, daughter of Catherine Morland and Henry Tilney (of Northanger Abbey). Jonathan and Juliet keep stumbling into situations involving murders, and they are the only two truly capable of solving them. In this, the third book of the […]

“We have tried you good people of the public and we have found you wanting”

Triangle: The Fire that Changed America by David von Drehle

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Apparently I grew up with a very abnormal childhood. I think I was about 7 or 8 the first time I heard of Rose Schneiderman and her fiery speech condemning the public of New York in a eulogy to the 147 lives lost in the Triangle Waist Factory fire of March 25th, 1911. Workers’ strikes were something that I read quite a few books on. My idols were Mary Jones, Rose Schneiderman, Emma Goldman. And then I read this book, and I discover that someone […]



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