Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Another quest for our favorite middle-aged lady pirate

The Tapestry of Fate: Amina al-Sirafi #2 by Shannon Chakraborty

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I seem to be drawn this year to adventures on the high seas: lady pirates, survivors of shipwrecks, badass dude divers, and even more badass lady divers. So it’s only fitting that I continue with Shannon Chakraborty’s second Amina al-Sirafi novel, The Tapestry of Fate because Amina al-Sirafi is, of course, a badass lady pirate. If there’s one trope I cannot resist, it’s the retiree with a very specific skill set called out for one last job. If you read the first Amina book, you’ll […]

Whimsical

My Magic Dress by Kayako Nishimak and Lisa Wilcut

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With the review of My Magic Dress by Kayako Nishimaki and translated by Lisa Wilcut (due March 2027; read via an online reader copy) I have caught up with all the reads I want to review and have them typed up for posting. And it is nice that this last (for now) review is a sweet and cozy book, because I need that. This book, originally from Japan in the late 1960s, didn’t do so well with adults back then. A book for children, that […]

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 […]

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

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Keeping this short since there are so many reviews of this book out there. This was boring. I was bored. I thought it went on way too long and got to the point I didn’t care if Ryland Grace lived or died or if he would complete his mission (save Earth). I haven’t watched the movie yet and wanted to finish the book first, but one of my friends told me the movie is eons better than the book and they are probably going to […]

Well, Well, Well

The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson

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“The Well of Ascension” is the second book in the original Mistborn trilogy by Brandon Sanderson. And it’s a very good, very solid middle book for a trilogy. We get some answers to earlier mysteries, and we get some new mysteries. We get a light smattering of war as well as more political intrigue. We get some deeper character development, along with additional world building. And we get some more characters, but also lose some more characters. Book 1, “Mistborn,” saw Kelsier and his crew […]

Reading the Room…. Or the Frog.

Frog Face by Blythe Russo

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Frog and I have a similar issue. Sometimes, I just am not smiling. A lot of the time I’m just sitting quietly and have to deal with people telling me, “You’re so quiet!” or “Why are you grumpy?” or “Why are you not smiling/Smile more!” Well, the first is rude as I don’t ask you why you’re so loud. But the second and third is being presumptuous. This is my face. I don’t always walk around with a fool grin on my mouth. I just […]



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