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.

bjornsnipe's Reviews:

“Worthwhile literature; a book that deals with some social or moral issue in an earnest, plodding, and pessimistic manner. What Aida, who was also a member, called “reading to slit your wrists by”.

Probable Caws: A Meg Langslow Mystery (#39) by Donna Andrews

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While this may not have been the best Meg book, just like Seanan McGuire or Terry Pratchett, Donna Andrews’ “not-so-goods” are better than some people’s “top-tier A-level”. Has to be one off the more interesting murderer reveals I’ve read in a very long time. In this, the 39th book in the series (which will make no sense unless you’ve read the other 38), Meg has finally found time to get some blacksmithing done; she has a candelabra to make for her mother’s interior design firm, […]

“She’d learned long ago that you couldn’t change the world, or even understand how it worked. All you could do was survive and make sure the people you cared about survived, too.”

Road to Ruin (Magebike Courier Book One) by Hana Lee

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Years ago, the world became a barren wasteland, survivable only in the Kerinas, where people with Talents protect the populace from the fierce storms, as well as take care of almost everything else. The Talentless, whose numbers are growing yearly, are barely tolerated in some Kerinas, while completely banned from others. Jin-Liu in some ways is one of the lucky ones; sure, she has the most dangerous job in the wasteland, but at least it helps her keep her Talentless mother reasonably comfortable. As a […]

“I’m not sure I ever see people at their best,” I said. “It gives me a rather skewed impression of humankind.”

"C" is for Corpse: A Kinsey Millhone Mystery (#3) by Sue Grafton

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Shortly after the events of “B” is for Burglar, Kinsey is just trying to get through her physical therapy and not scream too loudly from boredom. That all changes when she’s hired by twenty-three-year-old Bobby Callahan. He wants Kinsey to find out why someone tried to kill him by forcing his Porsche over a bridge and into a canyon; he knew at one time, but the accident has stripped the reasons from his memory. Unfortunately, even if Bobby has forgotten the perpetrator hasn’t, and barely […]

“In the daylight, his hair was a riot: a true, bright copper. It looked as though he’d sat in front of a mirror with a curling iron and painstakingly coaxed small pieces of it to curl in different directions. Or else he’d crawled out from a pile of pillows and not bothered to run a comb through it, and gravity had been so amused at the sight that it hadn’t interfered.”

Swordcrossed by Freya Marske

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Mattinesh Jay (Matti to almost everyone), dutiful heir to his family’s struggling wool business, needs to hire an experienced swordsman to serve as best man for his arranged marriage. His fiance Sofia Cooper, heir to a thriving wine business, is the object of obsession love for one Adrean Vane.  (Who also happens to be, awkwardly, the son of the Jay family business’s senior agent.) A successful Sword-challenge at the ceremony would destroy any hope of restoring his family’s wealth (and keeping their reputation), something that […]

“Suspect, bah! We’ll drag him out in the open!” said Gaunt. “Let’s go!”

Murder on the Canterbury Pilgrimage: A Geoffrey Chaucer Murder Mystery by Mary Devlin

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Geoffrey Chaucer is invited by two of his old friends to join them on a pilgrimage to the shrine of Thomas a Becket in Canterbury. Unfortunately, the trip gets a spanner put into it by the murder of one of the travelers; the beautiful yet mysterious gypsy, Sophia. Can Geoffrey (and his old friend John of Gaunt, uncle and regent to the King) solve the murder, even if they disagree on Geoffrey’s reliance on astrology to do so? And will Geoffrey do anything with the […]

“The past cannot be cured”- Elizabeth I, Queen of England

Shadow of Night: A Novel (Book Two of the ALL SOULS SERIES) by Deborah Harkness

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I read A Discovery of Witches two years ago, and was suitably unimpressed. (Well, not unimpressed, more like I loathed it.) Then last year, for some unknown reason (I blame having bronchitis and being in the mood to mindlessly binge watch), I watched the entire series on Netflix. (I also watched Shadow & Bone, about 11 seasons of Supernatural, and all of Bridgerton that was out at the time; don’t judge me for any of it. I told you, I was delirious with bronchitis.) So […]



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