Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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In short, war is bad. Also gay.

In Memoriam by Alice Winn

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PIE Challenge: Education, because I really don’t know as much about WW1 og hot take, , In short, war is bad. Also gay.longer review I sat down to read this ahead of Word on the Water book club, and then just…didn’t stand up from the sofa until I finished. To say I liked this book would be an understatement (to say I loved it would also be a bit hyperbolic, though). I think it’s interesting to go through a few of the concerns/complaints that were mentioned during […]

“But in his experience, being bad with names was like being bad with swords. Most people could learn if they tried hard enough.”

Wind and Truth by Brandon Sanderson

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original hot take Okay fine I’ll give it a 5 although I have to go back and rebase across the works. In other news, 3am reading indicates lessons of adulthood never learned. Longer review I don’t think this actually is a five star for me, I think if I had to go back and think through the books it would be: Way of Kings 4* Words of Radiance 5* Oathbringer 4* Rhythm of War 5* Wind and Truth 4* There’s too much that went on in this […]

Here we have a Pride & Prejudice retelling that I enjoyed

Slightly Dangerous by Mary Balogh

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I actually REALLY liked this, except that I thought the ending was a bit rushed and not quite up to the vim and sparkle of the rest. It is also the sixth book in a series, but the blurbs of the former five books weren’t giving and so I figured I could probably pick up on the nuances therein. Also, this is a PRIDE AND PREJUDICE retelling so you know I was all in and not going to have the patience to read five other […]

“Anything could be cajoled into sense if he thought enough about it.”

Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh

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Moshfegh has a lock on a particular zeitgeist that I have identified, NYT-like–e.g., I have seen at least one other similar item, have decided two points make a trend, and am now on the hunt for more books that prove my point. The trend: bodily horror, especially related to starvation or atrophy of the human body, as a mechanism to reject Rousseau and vindicate Hobbes’ contention that life outside society would be solitary, nasty, brutish, and short. In this case, by showing that even within […]

“I’d say that I regret the things I never said way more than the things I have said.”

Practice Makes Perfect by Sarah Adams

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I really wanted to like this one more than I did! But it took a while to finish, and mostly because I didn’t find Annie very compelling as a character. Although to be fair, I also found Will a bit too convenient for the situation. So Annie is one of the many sisters of Noah Walker of our prior go-around, When in Rome. She’s the youngest one, the baby, the one everyone babies, the one who’s just seen as the kid etc etc get the drift? […]

“But that didn’t mean his words had not been true. The most honest things were often said when you weren’t thinking.”

The Mistress Experience by Scarlett Peckham

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This one, however, I thought was delightful! A great end to this trio, with a shiny building architecture’d by the first dude whose name now complete escapes me. Adam? While I still think Seraphina (who looks like Princess Una from the movie Stardust in my head) is my favorite of the trio, Thaïs comes second. Perhaps she would be first if typing her name didn’t require me to copy/paste every time…cursed umlauts. But Thaïs is that typical historical romance character, the out and open harlot […]



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