Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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Picard: Counting down to the series

Picard: Countdown by Kirsten Beyer & Mike Johnson

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This was a 3 part comic series published as a graphic novel covering the events that lead up to the latest Star Trek Series Picard. Generally speaking I’d recommend reading this first if you haven’t seen Picard and want to as it’ll provide some detail and context that takes more effort with the show. It covers events that lead up to the Kelvinverse Star Trek movies as well as it focuses on the risk of Romulus’s sun going nova and Picard is leading the mission […]

An introduction to Tortall

Alanna: The First Adventure by Tamora Pierce

In the Hand of the Goddess by Tamora Pierce

The Woman who Rides like a Man by Tamora Pierce

Lioness Rampant by Tamora Pierce

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The 4 books that make up the Song of the Lioness series are Tamora Pierce’s first exploration of her world of Tortall. A western medieval society with chivalry and magic of many kinds. I read the first book in this series (Alanna) when I was a child and for many years never even realised it had sequels. But it stuck with me over the years and about 10 years ago I found the books again and read them all with new eyes. I come back […]

Thinking of Winter in Summer

Winter: A Folio Anthology by Various

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I ordered my brother a set of Hornblower novels from The Folio Society as a birthday present (his planned present of a trip to see Harry Potter and the Cursed Child being delayed by Coronavirus) and they sent me this delightful little anthology on the theme of winter as a free gift. I promised I’d read and review it and managed to do that over lunch today. There are little anthologies for all the seasons containing poems, snippets of stories, fables, and documents relating to […]

Time for some magitech

False Value by Ben Aaronovitch

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The Rivers of London series is one of my favourites being a London based urban fantasy centring around DC Peter Grant, a copper who back in the first book got himself mixed up in magic and seconded to the Metropolitan Police’s covet magic division “The Folly”. We’re now at the eighth full length novel in an increasing detailed series – we have offshoots in other countries (The October Man in Germany), graphic novels, and a sense of a slowly building world in which magic is […]

A bit of a Carry On…

Carry On by Rainbow Rowell

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The premise of this book intrigued me with it being a full story set in a pseudo-Harry Potter world dreamed up to be a novel series in another book (Fangirl) whose protagonist wrote fan fiction. So it’s a fictionalisation of a book series that was Harry Potter with the numbers filed off. And our lead characters here are Harry & Draco archetypes (called Simon and Baz) with the idea being that in the Fangirl-verse everyone wanted them to be in a relationship rather than enemies. […]

Anxiety and prejudice in Space

The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kawal

The Fated Sky by Mary Robinette Kawal

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These two books by Mary Robinette Kawal are a prequel to her earlier short story The Lady Astronaut of Mars and tell the story of the accelerated human exploration of space triggered by a catastrophic event. Our protagonist is Dr Elma York a young(ish) woman who is a mathematical prodigy and qualified pilot – having flown with the WASPs during the WW2. In these books we follow her journey through the 1950s to the 1960s dealing with a world in crisis, prejudice, and her own […]



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