Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Stuck or unstuck in time

Slaughterhouse-Five, or the Children's Crusade: The Graphic Novel by Kurt Vonnegut Jr and Ryan North

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WTH did I read? I admit, a lot of the graphic novel Slaughterhouse-Five, or the Children’s Crusade, went over my head. But that just means I need to read it again as this is not something  that can be taken in all at once. The artwork is what really grabbed me this first reading. There was a lot going on, but it did not always feel “fleshed out” and there were things missing, yet, there was also too much going on as well. The lack […]

So tell me, little sister: What are you prepared to do, for what you want?

He Who Drowned the World by Shelley Parker-Chan

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When I posted my review of She Who Became the Sun a couple of people mentioned they were afraid to read He Who Drowned the World. Friends, you are right to be afraid. As Shelley Parker-Chan tweeted recently, “emotional books that feel like a gut punch”—hey, that’s my brand!” Because we know that this series is a retelling of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, we know that our protagonist, Zhu Yuanzhang, will defeat her enemies by the end of the book, and that her […]

Yo Ho Ho and a Pot of Tea

A Pirate's Life for Tea by Rebecca Thorne

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Reyna and Kianthe are off on their quest to find the missing dragon eggs when they’re roped into helping a local lord deal with a pirate problem with the assistance of a local constable, Bobbie.  When Reyna finds out that Bobbie and Serina, the problem pirate, were childhood best friends, she immediately smells trouble and romance.  And meddling happens to be one of her hobbies.  But the four women will soon find that their issues might be interconnected, and it may take all of them […]

CBR 15 Bingo: Politics – Mistborn Era 1

The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson

The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson

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***Spoilers for the first book in the series*** ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ The Well of Ascension: I loved the first book in this series, The Final Empire. I love a well-done Fantasy heist, and I dearly loved the characters, so I was eager to get into the second book. This was a completely different beast. The Well of Ascension is much more focused on the politics of rule, especially after the end of a tyrant. Kelsior’s Crew has installed Elend Venture, the young political […]

“It isn’t just taking a life that destroys a people. It’s taking their history.”

Thistlefoot: A Novel by GennaRose Nethercott

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Cbr15bingo In the wild (shifters) features characters that are shape shifters Thistlefoot is a story of generational trauma that is part fairy tale and part history. The fairy tale part borrows from the Russian tales of the witch Baba Yaga. The history is that of the Jewish people, specifically the pogroms that occurred in Eastern Europe in the first half of the 20th century. This is a novel about the violence that destroyed Jewish communities, the fear that feeds that violence, and the vital importance […]

“He hated this place. He loved it.”

Babel by R F Kuang

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Bingo: History;  Passport: China Babel is historical fiction stirred with magic, the story of imperialism set in a world just a sidestep from our own told through the eyes of an outsider awakening to harsh realities. We meet Robin as a small boy who has survived a cholera outbreak that has killed his mother and ravaged his birthplace of Canton and is taken to England by his mentor.  His Chinese name is unimportant to Professor Lovell, so we never learn it.   Robin’s skill with language […]



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