Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Brave New World. Meh.

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

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I’ve been curious about this book for a long time. 1984 by George Orwell was one of my favorite books as an adolescent, and Brave New World is often mentioned in the same breath. So when I found a Brave New World mini-series, I thought I’d check it out.  The mini-series stars Jessica Brown Findlay (Lady Sybil from Downton Abbey), Harry Lloyd (Viserys Targaryen from GOT), and Alden Ehrenreich (Young Han Solo from Solo), and it tells the story of a “utopic” future London where […]

What a fantastic ending to a phenomenal series!

Briar's Book by Tamora Pierce

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BINGO – Pandemic (I know this category is a catch-all, read-what-you-want category, but this book is also about a pandemic) SUMMARY – Oh boy, what a book to read during a pandemic. Briar Moss and his teacher Rosethorn head to the city in order to provide healing services to the sick there. Briar, a former street kid, can’t help but give special attention to all the homeless, poor children while there. While attending to the street kids in the Mire, the poorest part of the […]

Magic takes a backseat to marvelous worldbuilding

Daja's Book by Tamora Pierce

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BINGO – FREE (Checked out from my local library’s digital audiobook collection) (This is the start of my second BINGO sheet) Daja and her three friends find themselves outside of Winding Circle for the first time since they met. They and their teachers along with the Duke of Emelan travel north to Gold Ridge Valley to assist with a drought. Upon arriving, they learn that there hasn’t been a forest fire in the Valley in years due to the efforts of a mage named Firetamer. […]

That Didn’t Really Happen.

Saga Vol. 9 by Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples

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CBR Bingo Category: White Whale Series: Saga. I read (and reviewed) Vol. 1 in 2018. What I remembered about this series prior to reading this book: A lot. Marko and Alana are from a planet and a moon which are at war. They fall in love, have Hazel, become fugitives thanks to their forbidden romance, and a million intergalactic adventures and eccentric characters follow. Why I stopped reading the series: Over the past few years I read Vols. 1-8 fairly quickly, but I’ve had Vol. […]

Toss a coin to your witcher

The Last Wish by Andzrej Sapkowski

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CBRBingo: Old series I’m a latecomer to Andzrej Sapkowski’s Witcher series, drawn in by the Netflix series and thoroughly earwormed by its ridiculously awesome theme song. I loved the series and was looking to learn more about Geralt of Rivia, Ciri, Yenifer, the Continent and its complex backstory of magic and political intrigue. I certainly learned some more about Geralt, the focus of this linked collection of short stories that tell of his work as a Witcher, a magic-shaped hunter, deperately needed by villages, towns and […]

In case you were wondering, Christopher Marlowe is a little shit, according to this author.

Shadow of Night (All Souls, #2) by Deborah Harkness

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It has been a bit since I read this, so this review will be a bit lacking in details as I struggle to remember why I rated this three stars. I remember the middle particularly being a bit of a slog. Also, not much happened plot-wise for a 600ish page book. The author clearly just got really excited about putting her characters in a 16th century setting with a bunch of famous people from that era (and lots of non-famous people as well, to be […]



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