Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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40-something psychologist living with a husband, preschooler, and 2 cats. (Learn more about this Cannonballer: Tracy's Quick Questions interview.)

Tracy's Reviews:

Slow Start, Then Great

The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden

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CBR18 BINGO: Left (left side of my bookshelf) This wasn’t quite what I was expecting. The first chunk of the book had more politicking than I expected from reading the book blurb, as well as multiple POVs. While I don’t mind political fantasies, I was in the mood for a story about Vasya’s life in her village and the trouble brewing there. We did eventually get to that, and then I was hooked. There were still multiple POVs, but I think mostly the perspectives were from […]

A Weird Book and Murakami. So, Two Weird Books, I Guess

The Employees by Olga Ravn

The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami

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CBR18 BINGO: Craft for The Employees (unconventional/fragmented/experimental approach) and Summer for The City and Its Uncertain Walls The Employees by Olga Ravn So, I read this. Uh . . . And then I did some of this: It’s hard to know what to make of this. It’s confusing, although I do think I understood the general gist of it. To be honest, though, for a while I only knew what was happening because the book blurb tells you, and it felt like the book blurb made some of the connections […]

Two Fantasies, Two More BINGO Squares

Dragon Haven by Robin Hobb

The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig

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CBR18 BINGO: You (for Dragon Haven because I’ve been working my way through Realm of the Elderlings as part of a book club for the past 1.5 years) and Sheep (for The Knight and the Moth related to being led/conformity) Dragon Haven I’ve had an unusual reaction to the first two books in the Rain Wild Chronicles. For both of them, I’ve enjoyed the actual process of reading the book, but I’ve also rarely felt the urge to pick them up between sittings and have often […]

Does Jane Austen Write Crack?

Emma by Jane Austen

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CBR18 BINGO: Repair (Emma’s self-improvement) I suspect my reaction to Emma (the character) is a little different on this re-read compared to when I first read it probably some 15-20 years ago. I recall thinking back then that Emma’s heart was in the right place and not really understanding why Austen considered her “a heroine whom no one but myself will much like.” I do largely stand by that first impression, but this time I think I was more aware of Emma’s flaws and the way […]

A Romantasy Road Trip

Swordheart by T, Kingfisher

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CBR18 BINGO: Steal  CW for suicidality It’s official. After reading two books by Kingfisher, getting mad that I had to go to bed because I didn’t want to put them down, and ultimately really enjoying both of them, I am now a Kingfisher fan and will be reading as much of her work as I can (most likely excluding some of the horror). At the beginning of Swordheart, Halla is considering taking drastic action after being locked in her room for 3 days. She inherited her great […]

What’s on the Other Side of the Door?

Exit West by Mohsin Hamid

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CBR18BINGO: And (2nd book by this author) Nadia and Saeed live in a nameless, though apparently majority Muslim, country. As their city becomes a battleground between militants and the army, they discover a way out through magical doors that have been appearing throughout the planet, and through which refugees pour into various other countries. This leads to an opportunity for the book to explore themes of migration, assimilation, and anti-migration sentiment. I appreciated that Nadia and Saeed’s city and country are never named, allowing the book […]



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