Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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SF and fantasy fiction fan. Lost my dad and sister to cancer so want to support this cause

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A story chain starts with hot chocolate

Hot Chocolate on Thursday by Michiko Aoyama (Translated by E. Madison Shimoda)

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Having read ‘What you are looking for is in the library’ by the same author at the end of last year when I spotted this in a little independent book shop in the Lake District I immediately picked it up. This is the first book by Michiko Aoyama and is quite similar structurally to her other work. There is a central thing or place that connects a number of short stories that daisy chain together in a narrative. Here we have a Tokyo coffee shop […]

The Magic Of Libraries

What you are looking for is in the library by Michiko Aoyama

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My first review of this year is a book I actually read towards the end of last year – Michiko Aoyama’s ‘What you are looking for is in the library’. This was a birthday present from my sister as she knows I love Japanese arts and culture and when I got round to reading it I really appreciated her choice. The book is part of a trend I’ve seen – cosy ‘mystical realism’ books featuring a place such as a cafe or store where visitors […]

Space: It’s the friends we meet

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

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Well… better late than never I guess! I’m getting this review in barely a month before the film comes out and embarrassingly I actually bought this book in hardback when it came out – the signed copy is sitting on my bookshelf mocking me. I actually ended up buying it again on Kindle towards the end of last year after seeing the film trailer and loving it, I don’t know why I delayed because I love the Martian, both book and film, and even tolerated […]

Writing as therapy: the latest Dresden Files novel

Twelve Months by Jim Butcher

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The publication gap between Battle Ground and the new book Twelve Months has been over 5 years, the longest in this series. The back-to-back of Peace Talks and Battle Ground left Harry Dresden in a bad place, and from reading that – and now Twelve Months – it was clear to me that Jim Butcher didn’t appear to be in a good place either. That’s proved true as he’s spoken about his depression, and a divorce that left him struggling – but also not in such a bad […]

A new way into Batman comics

Absolute Batman 1-6 by Scott Snyder & Nick Dragotta

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Last year Wayne Family Adventures got me back into DC Comics and then I heard about the ‘Absolute’ universe which seemed a good entry point back into actual monthly comics. What’s the Absolute Universe? Having now read back there was a run of comics called Absolute Power which led to a finale in which Darkseid gained control over a new universe – an Elseworld – shared by its heroes. It’s a bleaker, darker, world in which our known heroes have new origins that have removed […]

Cornwall – the unchanging landscape

Over Sea, Under Stone by Susan Cooper

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Many years ago I wrote a review for The Dark is Rising which is the 2nd book in the sequence of the same name by Susan Cooper. This book is the first in the sequence but as I recommended then often better to be read second. I reread this on a recent holiday to Cornwall because in visiting the Cornish fishing villages/towns I immediately felt that sense of place I have with this book. If The Dark is Rising is a book that takes you […]



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