Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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New guy, same weird problems

The October Man by Ben Aaronovitch

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Ben Aaronovitch takes a detour from London in his latest urban fantasy novella, but doesn’t really go too far afield. In The October Man we take a break from the adventures of Peter Grant in London to see what is happening elsewhere in the world of magical policing. We arrive in Germany to enjoy an adventure with Peter’s counterpart Tobias (Tobi) Winter, another young copper who turned out to have a bit of a gift with magic. Tobi is assigned to work a case in […]

Assassins, Templars, and Gods: It’s confusing around here…

Assassin's Creed Uprising Volume 1: Common Ground by Alex Paknadel, Dan Watters, Jose Holder

Assassin's Creed Uprising Volume 2: Inflection Point by Alex Paknadel, Dan Watters, Jose Holder

Assassin's Creed Uprising Volume 3: Finale by Alex Paknadel, Dan Watters, Jose Holder

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Assassin’s Creed was the reason I bought a PS3, and since then I have played every game (only failing to complete Assassin’s Creed 3 because it was irritating). What I didn’t do though was consume any of the other media relating to the games – not the books, nor the comics. But in playing the most recent game – Odyssey – an email chain I read through as the character Layla Hassan was intriguing and made me pick up the 3 volumes of Assassin’s Creed […]

Rendezvous with a classic SF novel

Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C Clarke

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I haven’t been great about keeping up with reading this year, bouncing between a number of different books and struggling to finish them. So I focused on something small and classic to see if that would give me a reading kick-start. I picked Rendezvous with Rama because I haven’t actually read it before even though I grew up in a household full of classic SF thanks to my parent’s taste in books, and also the stories about the comet Oumuamua were still in my head. […]

Did anyone think to check the building for personifications of Roman Gods

Lies Sleeping by Ben Aaronovitch

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Modern day London: home to a vibrant mix of cultures, faiths, and hipster coffee shops. And, in Ben Aaronovitch’s Rivers of London series, also home to gods and goddesses, the fae, ghosts of past London, and the terrifying spirit of Mr Punch from the Punch & Judy puppet show. Really it’s not surprising that the Met Police need their own magic division to cope with a city where any building could embody the spirit of a 2500 year old anglo-roman who got worshipped as a […]

Twas the night before Hogswatch

Hogfather by Terry Pratchett

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It’s the night before Hogswatch and the Hogfather is missing. Without him delivering presents the little children will lose their belief and without it the sun will not come up. This calls for the intervention of one man – Death (well… one anthropomorphic personification anyway) – to masquerade as the Hogfather and help restore faith that the light will return. Yes, it’s a Discworld novel, buried midway through the series and featuring everybody’s favourite Grim Reaper. We’re also reunited with his grand-daughter Susan (currently acting […]

The Belgariad: Not all tropes are bad

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The Belgariad is a series of five books written by David Eddings starting with Pawn of Prophecy in 1982. I discovered the first in the summer of 1985 as an 12 year old on my last day of vacation and by the time I was home the next day I’d already finished it. This included reading in a car and feeling sick as a result but I couldn’t bring myself to put the book down. Luckily the whole series was out by then so I […]



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