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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Supporting restaurants with some DIY

Chefs at Home by 54 leading chefs

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The Coronavirus lockdowns haven’t been easy to deal with for those in the hospitality sector. In the last year a lot of restaurants and pubs have had to try new things like delivery, food boxes, and many have also supported public services by preparing food for hospitals etc. And still it’s been hard for many in the industry and the charity Hospitality Action is there to support those in need in the sector. This cookbook is one of the things they’ve produced to help and […]

Fixing space with any available tool

The Unorthodox Engineers by Colin Kapp

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I grew up in a home where if the book was on a bookshelf then I could read it, regardless of my age and the alleged reading age of the book. Given my parent’s taste in books this meant I grew up with Isaac Asimov, Harry Harrison, and many other classic SF authors. What this meant was that on days off school feeling ill I’d curl up under a blanket with something like an old “New Writings in SF” and that meant I was introduced […]

Even more Murderbot

Network Effect by Martha Wells

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I’d like to apologise to Martha Wells for not getting around to reading this sooner. It’s no reflection on the book, which is excellent, just a consequence of COVID blues meaning I’m still struggling to read novels. This is the first full length novel featuring everyone’s favourite introverted and socially anxious cyborg (SecUnit) Murderbot as they navigate what it means to be free to choose your own path. Murderbot is now almost a family member to their former client Mensah on the colony of Preservation. […]

Fairyland is calling

Letters from Fairyland by Charles van Sandwyk

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As a Christmas present my mum bought me this lovely little folio edition – Letters from Fairyland. It’s a tiny book of only 24 pages long but is a beautiful concept. The author and artist Charles van Sandwyk has illustrated books like Alice in Wonderland for the Folio Society before and also wrote a book called “How to see Fairies”. This acts as a follow up with the premise that a child wrote to him about wanting to spot fairies in their garden and this […]

Dresden Returns!

Peace Talks by Jim Butcher

Battle Ground by Jim Butcher

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After a longer than usual gap Harry Dresden returned this year in not one, but two, books. Well… kind of. The reality is that Peace Talks and Battle Ground are really one book that got too long for the publisher and so it got split. At a guess this lengthened the writing process as there would have been some rework to try and create a division and narrative for both books. It didn’t entirely work which is why I didn’t review until I’ve had the […]

A series of small follies

Tales from The Folly by Ben Aaronovitch

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The Rivers of London stories have spread out from their original novels into a number of formats – an ongoing graphic novel series, and short stories posted in varying places. Tales from the Folly collates a number of these short stories into a book to provide some little offshoots for the main character Peter Grant, but also some limelight to other characters that have appeared. It’s an interesting collection as the stories cover varying time periods – for Peter from early in his career at […]



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