Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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I read books, watch movies and occasionally make music. Website: tilde.club/~jormis. (Learn more about this Cannonballer: jormis' Quick Questions interview.)

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From Shrimp Sniffing to French Kissing

dibs by Allison Martine

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An imaginary excerpt from the diary of one Olivia Markham: Hello, I am Olivia Markham, a Southern Territory Executive at Ranchers, a non-profit organisation which is like the Scouts. I am entering the autumn years of my life – I’m 27. I used to be a litigator, but after my divorce (he cheated) I wanted to break free from the past and the pain of feeling useless and unwanted so I decided to do something completely different. I have no life, nor self-esteem even though […]

Love Knows No Boundaries

This is How You Lose the Time War by Amar El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

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In science fiction everything is possible. You can paint your canvas any which way you can. Do it wrong and you find yourself in exposition hell – books suffer from this far less than moving pictures – mired in inconsistent world building and plot holes. But do it right and the angel choir sings praise (maybe even literally, it is up to you) and the readers are drawn to your masterful creation. Birth, death, resurrection, restart (nobody knows nothing about time travel), duplication, transformation: you […]

Dragons in the Sky

Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey

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There are two fantasy genre tropes that I could do without. First, the stagnation: the world has been in a rot for ages, even thousands of years with no progress at all. It was better then: the society of yore was wealthier, the people mightier, wiser, and had longer lifespans. (They probably had better dental hygiene, too, although this is pure speculation.) The current civilisation has lost a lot of the knowledge of magic and technology, especially the good guys; the bad ones seem to […]

I made up this review but I did not lie

On Bullshit by Harry G. Frankfurt

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One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take this situation for granted. Harry G. Frankfurt starts the book with that observation. One of the reasons to grab this essay is the damage – literal and growingly, physical – that Trump & henchmen, Boris Johnson, and several other politician seem to spout nowadays. Ours is the true zeitgeist of liars and bullshitters; the snake […]

The Dark is Rising, Books I-III

Over Sea, Under The Stone by Susan Cooper

The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper

Greenwitch by Susan Cooper

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  It must have been 1980 when I got my first library card to a small branch library in an equally small town. I was 11 or 12. Trips to the library were always an adventure as I was allowed to make the journey by myself. Once, I even got reprimanded by a librarian for returning the books (hopefully only slightly) wet – I had explored the spring streams transporting water from melting snow to faraway places; I carried the books in a plastic bag […]



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