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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Kingdom Hearts: Don’t Chase the Dream

Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance by Tomoco Kanemaki

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Another light novel adaptation in the increasingly convoluted Kingdom Hearts series! It will always amuse me that there are technically 3 main games in this series, but if that’s all you played / read then you will be very confused as all of the offshoots are relevant to the plot. This is a novelisation of a game that first appeared on the Nintendo 3DS – which is the entire reason for the name – and which has subsequently appeared on PS4 and Xbox. Story-wise this […]

In which I review Howl’s Moving Castle

Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

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Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones is one of those books I read as a grown-up and wished I had discovered as a child. It stuck with me enough that when I saw that the Folio Society had produced a copy I needed to get it, and whilst I missed the first print (nobody took the Christmas present hinting I did…) I managed to get it on the reprint and so had a re-read of it this year. A lot of people will come […]

The art of saying “NO”

F**k No!: How to stop saying yes, when you can't, you shouldn't, or you just don't want to by Sarah Knight

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A change of pace for me with a non-fiction, self-help book. This is a new book from the author of “The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F**k” and is aimed at helping people understand the value of saying “No” in both a personal and professional setting. I wanted to give this a read because weirdly I was just in the process of writing a LinkedIn article about the value of learning to say “No” to things at work so it was interesting to see […]

Another childhood book appropriate for the season

Winter Holiday by Arthur Ransome

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This is another book in my partial re-read of the Swallows & Amazons series by Arthur Ransome and one that I hadn’t read since I was a child. Because this book is set during the winter and it’s January it seemed like a good time to pick this one up. There are times I like to read something that evokes memories and for me this represents winters in childhood when you could play in the snow and have fun. I may not have had the […]

Insurance cover for field trips must be hard to get…

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy by Mike Johnson & Ryan Parrott

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This year I started with a graphic novel that I missed when it came out in 2016. Which is actually weird because I love Star Trek, am a fan of the Kelvinverse, and have read all of the other IDW comics featuring the nu-Kirk and crew. This particular novel lightly touches on the time Kirk et. al were at Starfleet Academy. The primary focus being Uhura investigating an unexplained radio signal from deep space and asking Kirk to help out as it involved hacking classified […]

And Kingdom Hearts just gets more complex…

Kingdom Hearts Re:coded by Tomoco Kanemaki

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Back to reading Kingdom Hearts novels for games I never got to play! It’s interesting to me that there are people who are fans of Kingdom Hearts but ignore any game that isn’t a big number – to them it was a 14 year gap between Kingdom Hearts 2 and 3 and then they were confused because they had missed between 8 and 11 games in-between (depending on how you count “remixes”). The original Coded was released in 2008 and remixed in 2010 as Re:coded. […]



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