Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

What is the distinction between magic and technology?

Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennet

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BINGO – CITYSCAPE Sancia a thief and a damn good one. She gets hired in the city-state of Tevanne to do the jobs that no one else will be able to get done because Sancia isn’t just any average thief. Sancia is able to put her skin onto any other thing and know it. If she’s touching a wall, she knows where all the footholds are; if she’s touching the floor, she knows what and who are currently on the floor; if she’s touching water, […]

“Caring about someone isn’t complicated. It isn’t easy. But it isn’t complicated, either. Kinda like lifting the engine block out of a car.”

Small Favor (Dresden Files #10) by Jim Butcher

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In one word: Action-packed Cannonball Read Bingo: Reader’s Choice (Replacing Fauna) Dresden is in it again. High stakes, low chance of survival, will he come out on top? At this point, book 10 of I don’t even know how many, it’s not a spoiler that um, yes, he will. But I will say this one really is firing on all cylinders. The whole gang is around in this one, gangster Marcone, the vile Denarians, and one of my favorites, the Archive, the 12-year-old girl who […]

Quietude

I Go Quiet by David Ouimet

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The other day I was talking to a coworker about a book he loved, I Go Quiet by David Ouimet. First, the author picture looks exactly how you would picture this author/illustrator. Not young, not old, and not conservative. The wild mane of hair and the twinkle in his eye made me realize that yes, he is the only person who could have written and illustrated this book. Second, it is hard to explain the book, but the cover gives you a lot of it. […]

I want to know more about the skunk woman

Astro Mouse and Light Bulb vs the Troublesome 4 by Fermin Solis

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With a character called Caca what do you think Astro Mouse and Light Bulb vs the Troublesome 4 is about? Well, Fermin Solis created a book about a Mouse called Astro Mouse, a space explorer who is as bright as a burned-out light bulb. There is a Light Bulb (that is robotic like and floats along) who is smart and who has a crush on a lamp. There is a Lamp that likes having adventures with Light Bulb. There is a funky Space Chicken, talking […]

“If this is the last decision I can ever make, at least it is my decision. Let me go, Alyosha. I am not afraid.”

The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden

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One of our #CannonBookClub prompts asked if there’s any special power in taking a known story and envisioning it in a new way, and for me the answer is a resounding yes. Whether its something along the lines of Longbourn where characters who are merely set dressing in the original tale are given the limelight or something like The Bear and the Nightingale where history and folktales are put into a blender, metaphorically, and something new arrives there is more often than not an engaging […]

“What broke your heart so completely that its splinters found their way through generations?”

The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina by Zoraida Córdova

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CBR13Bingo: Uncannon a beautiful work of fantasy that tells one story of generational trauma in fantastical terms Magical realism isn’t usually my thing, but I couldn’t resist that unbelievably gorgeous cover. And I am ever so glad I picked this book up. It’s about generational trauma and making a home and family secrets, about how bringing those secrets into the light can wound and heal. “Orquídea was so many things: evasive, silent, mean, secretive, loving, and a liar.” Orquídea Montoya was born unlucky, but early on she […]



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