Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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A low-stakes 1970s queer love story.

Daniel Cabot Puts Down Roots (The Cabots, #3) by Cat Sebastian

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Daniel Cabot Puts Down Roots, like all the Cabot books, is a low-stakes romance where there isn’t much conflict, just two people falling in love, or as in the case of this book, recognizing that they are already in love and coming to terms with it. No third-act breakups, no outside forces coming between them; even homophobia isn’t really an issue here. Our MCs are Daniel, son of the MC from the first in the series, and Alex, Ukrainian immigrant, doctor, neurodivergent, and Daniel’s best […]

Nah.

The Cloisters by Katy Hays

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What it comes down to is that I found this book extremely unpleasant. And also dull. And reading it made me feel like I would rather be banging my head against something very solid. This was made even more frustrating by glimmers of stuff I probably would have found very intriguing in another author’s hands, or in another type of story altogether. The Cloisters is about a woman whose name I have long forgotten who is heading to her first post-graduate job, supposedly at the […]

“You remember the fairy tales you were told when you were very small – ‘once upon a time…’ Why do you think they always began like that?” “Because they weren’t true,” Simon said promptly. Jane said, caught up in the unreality of the high remote place, “Because perhaps they were true once, but nobody could remember when.”

Over Sea, Under Stone (The Dark is Rising, #1) by Susan Cooper

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So I definitely missed this one as a kid, and what a shame. The series came on my radar when the apparently terrible movie was released. I saw a trailer for it and put the books on my TBR . . . and then did nothing about it for over a decade. Who even knows the timeline at this point. I kind of thought the book covers were ugly, so it never was a priority for me. But people really seem to love it, and […]

Not my usual thing, but very enjoyable.

Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson

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I will be honest, I only got Black Cake from BOTM because it was the only Book of the Year in 2022 that I hadn’t already read, and you get a free one every year. I didn’t want to say no to a free book. And I’m glad I got it! This was highly readable and emotionally affecting, even if it wasn’t always able to hold my attention perfectly (lots of little breaks for romance novels, fanfic, etc. — I am who I am). And […]

“And, as always happens, and happens far too soon, the strange and wonderful becomes a memory and a memory becomes a dream. Tomorrow it’s gone.”

Wintersmith (Tiffany Aching, #3) by Terry Pratchett

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I’ve been wrestling back and forth over whether I want to give this five stars or not, but I think for now I’m going with four because this took me longer to read than I would have liked, and it’s not sticking with me as fully as book two has. Maybe on re-read I will bump it up. Anyway, this is book three in the Tiffany Aching subseries of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld, and as usual, was a jolly good time with sneakly affecting undertones. There […]

I demand book two this instant.

Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1) by Heather Fawcett

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Kicking myself for not writing this review immediately after finishing this book. I was on such a book high and now it’s been two months, and my brain is useless. Because I really want to do this one justice! I want more people to read it and enjoy it like I did. Emily Wilde is a scholar, and her field of study is faeries. She is aiming to write the first comprehensive encylopaedia of faeries that has ever been published. On a scholarly research trip […]



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