Cannonball Read 18

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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.)

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A Slow Burn Magic Story

Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

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I’m not usually interested in historical fiction, but after reading Piranesi, I wanted to try more of Susanna Clarke’s work. Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell is set in England during the Napoleonic wars in the early 1800s. There used to be magic in England, but magic hasn’t been seen in centuries. Instead, the people who call themselves magicians are theoretical magicians – they study magic but don’t practice it. However, in the quest to discover why magic is no longer practiced in England, one of […]

Justin Cronin Is Good at Twisty Turny Science Fiction

The Ferryman by Justin Cronin

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This newest Justin Cronin novel is set on Prospera, an archipelago of three islands. The first, Prospera, is where the white collar workers live. They have jobs but are focused on art, beauty, culture, society, and law. The second island is the Annex, which is where support staff (i.e., “the help”) live. Prosperans have been genetically tweaked to be long-lived and also infertile. When they get old enough and their health declines, they “retire” to the Nursery, which is on the third island, where they […]

Entertained, But Left Wanting

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

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I wanted to like this more than I did. And I did enjoy it, but I was expecting more after having read Sea of Tranquility and seeing how much other Cannonballers like this one. Station Eleven alternates settings between when a flu pandemic starts and 20 years later in the post-apocalyptic world. In the future, Kirsten, one of the main characters, is an actor in The Traveling Symphony, a group of actors and musicians who travel from small town to small town to perform for […]

Size Inclusivity in Romance

Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade

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This romance centers on April and Marcus. April is heavily involved in the Gods of the Gates fandom (a Game of Thrones type of show) and decides to post a picture on Twitter of herself in cosplay. Because she is fat, because the character she is cosplaying as is not, and because there is still a lot of socially approved fatphobia in the world, she gets a lot negative comments (though she also gets a lot of positive reinforcement from other comments, which is nice). […]

Cozy Fantasy(?) Reviews

The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna

Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

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In The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches, Mika Moon is a 31-year-old witch who, like other witches around the world, hides who she is. Every 3 months she meets up with other witches in Great Britain for a few hours, but aside from that, they have little to no contact with each other. But Mika loves magic so much and wants to share it with a community so badly that she creates videos in which she performs magic. She doesn’t expect any viewers to […]

Is There Anything Better Than Witty, Sometimes Snarky, Banter?

Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert

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It’s been a while since I read a romance, and this was a great way to return to the genre. Chloe Brown has a near death experience that leads her to re-evaluating her life. She thinks she’s boring, so she comes up with a list of things that she thinks will help make her braver and more interesting. This process starts with her moving out of her parents’ house and into an apartment, where she meets Red Morgan, the superintendent. Red is an artist who’s […]



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