The Whisper Man by Alex North
My friend at work recommended this book to me. Once I finished it I reached out to her to tell her how much I liked it. She was like “Oh, I didn’t read it, but there’s a movie of it on Netflix and it looked good”. I was like “oh haha, well I read the book on your recommendation and loved it”. I mean I loved it as much as you can love a book about kids getting kidnapped and murdered, alcoholism, parent death… We’re […]
Six of Crows #2 Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo
Grishaverse #0.5 The Witch of Duva by Leigh Bardugo
Shadow and Bone #1 Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
Shadow and Bone #2 Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo
Shadow and Bone #3 Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo
King of Scars #1 King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo
King of Scars #2 Rule of Wolves by Leigh Bardugo
So, I did a full Grishaverse read in the past few months. I read Six of Crows a few months ago, and my review is on my profile earlier in this Cannonball. I was so excited that there were so many more books in this universe! My featured image is fan art by artist Kevin Wada: Kevin Wada | The Grishaverse | Fandom I just randomly found it Googling around and thought it was beautiful!! Six of Crows #2: Crooked Kingdom is the second book […]
A Little More Social by Nicholas Epley
I read MOST of this book. I was probably about halfway through and my loan ran out. So… I may have cheated a little bit and speed read through the last few chapters. I feel like you get enough of the jist in the first half though. The premise is: We think random stranger interactions will be bad, but they will probably be better than we think. It actually makes us feel better to interact more and be more social than to isolate ourselves. Someone […]
The Impossible Fortune (Thursday Murder Club #5) by Richard Osman
I don’t know if it says something about me, or something about Richard Osman, but I find these “murder club” books immensely comforting. I read the first four and I didn’t even know there was a new book out until I saw it on Audible. It was the correct choice to listen to the audiobook too, because Fiona Shaw is the narrator. She is the PERFECT person to narrate this series. I’m just going through my Goodreads and I have no earthly idea if I […]
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
This book was published in 1990, when I was a wee girl of 9. I did not read it the year it came out, but I did read it when I was in sixth grade (so maybe 11?). I’m not sure how I picked it up, because I don’t think my parents read it. I remember thinking “this would be a great movie” (I also thought that about another Michael Crichton banger that became a movie – Sphere). Anyway, I feel like that was the […]
The Last Labyrinth by Gwendolyn Womack
This sort of novel isn’t usually my jam, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. One caveat though – it is (currently) a duology. The ending will not be neat and tidy – you’ll have to read the next book, which doesn’t come out until mid 2027 (The Last Immortal (The Cosmic Frequency Book 2)). I DID NOT know this at the beginning, since “The Cosmic Frequency Book 1” is nowhere to be seen on the cover or in the title. I was just getting a little […]
