Cannonball Read 18

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Space Archeology and a Mystery

The Ship Who Searched by Anne McCaffrey & Mercedes Lackey

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Tia Cade enjoys her life moving from dig site to dig site and planet to planet with her archeologist parents.  Precocious and inquisitive, she doesn’t mind that her best friend is a brainship or that she doesn’t get to spend time with other children her age.  However, when an unknown space disease leaves her almost completely paralyzed, Tia gets a new lease on life as a brainship as well as a desire to track down the disease that she caught and make sure no else […]

Spaceship Coming of Age

PartnerShip by Anne McCaffrey & Margaret Ball

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Newly commissioned brainship, Nancia is excited for her first mission.  However, her first group of passengers, all High Family scions like herself, don’t seem to realize that she’s brainship, and when Nancia doesn’t inform them of the fact, she overhears a number of things that trouble her.  Five years later, those conversations come to haunt her as Nancia is pulled into an investigation that links to those same passengers. I liked this one more than the Ship Who Sang.  It’s more of a coming of […]

Ambivalence

The Ship Who Sang by Anne McCaffrey

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Born with severe physical birth defects, nothing is wrong with Helva’s mind.  So as an infant she’s implanted in a shell, destined to one day be the mind that runs a spaceship.  Fascinated with music, Helva earns the moniker “the ship who sang”.  Setting off with her human partner (called a brawn), Helva will find that the joys and challenges of being herself are as vast as space itself. I don’t know how I feel about this book.  I’m sure I read it before when […]

A Timely and Moving Tale About a Recent Slice of History

Wake Now In the Fire: A Story of Censorship, Action, Love, and Hope by Jarrett Dapier

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An ordinary day at Curtis Technical High School in 2013 sparks a movement when teachers are ordered to remove Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi from the shelves as it has been decided that the book is no longer allowed in classrooms or libraries at Chicago Public Schools.  But the students aren’t willing to let that be the last word on things and begin to push back.  Even as they struggle to with other things that are going on in their lives, the students are unwilling to […]

Dense But Worth the Read

Thousand Autumns Volume One by Meng Xi Shi

Thousand Autumns Volume Two by Meng Xi Shi

Thousand Autumns Volume Three by Meng Xi Shi

Thousand Autumns Volume Four by Meng Xi Shi

Thousand Autumns Volume Five by Meng Xi Shi

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Yan Wushi is a cynic as well as a master cultivator and leader of a demonic sect.  When the head of a Daoist sect, Shen Qiao, loses a duel and is badly injured, Yan Wushi decides to take the injured man in and see if he can corrupt him.  Their clashing philosophies towards the world put them on separate paths, but while each sees the world in different ways, they do live in the same world.  As their paths continue to meet and separate over […]

Dragons and Romance – The Perfect Match

Books & Broadswords by Jessie Mihalik

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There’s nothing that Feora likes more than stealing the King’s gold, except buying books with it.  When a rather persistent knight shows up, Feroa might have found a new distraction.  Meanwhile, Zenira’s not best pleased about having to sell her rock collection when her landlord raises her rent.  However, the mysterious collector who buys it has a messy mansion that makes Zenira just itch to clean it.  When she strikes a deal to clean the mansion, she may discover more she bargained for. This delightful […]



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