Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Like the circles that you find in the windmill of your mind

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

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Cbr13bingo Rec’d, Bingo #8 Susanna Clarke’s novel Piranesi has been reviewed about a dozen times on the Cannonball Read, first by tiny_bookbot and most recently by Debcapsfan. Every review of this book has been 4 or 5 stars. Published in 2020, Piranesi was nominated for the Nebula Best Novel and won the 2021 Women’s Prize for Fiction. It is an astonishing fantasy novel about the world of the mind and the myth of the Minotaur and the Labyrinth. I must say that while I thought […]

A series I am sad to see go.

The Desolation of Devil's Acre by Ransom Riggs

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     “Stay safe, peculiar folk, it’s weird out there. And not in a good way.” Caul is back. And once again all of peculiardom is in danger. Loops are being raided and destroyed all over the world, sending refugee peculiars flooding into Devil’s Acre. But things in the acre are more than a little weird as it beings to rain  blood, bones, and ash. Noor and Jacob have no idea how they survived V’s loop and ended up back on Abe Portman’s front porch, […]

“I write these words in steel, for anything not set in metal cannot be trusted.”

The Well of Ascension (Mistborn, #2) by Brandon Sanderson

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Well, I was hoping I would like this more this time, knowing how it ended, but it was about the same experience for me. A bit sloggy up until the last third of it, at which point it really picked up. I know what he was going for here, turning a tired fantasy premise on its head like he did with the first one*, but the nature of that premise and the world and characters he built for himself just made it not a very […]

“Of all the myriad races of thinking creatures in the world, the two that most delight in telling stories are the flesh-and-blood humans and the long-lived, fiery jinn.”

The Hidden Palace (The Golem & The Jinni, #2) by Helene Wecker

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I’m having a hard time reviewing this one, mostly because I had a hard time deciding what I thought about it. But I’m on the verge of getting hopelessly behind in reviews again, so it’s time to buckle down and figure it out. I was thinking about the book this morning and I think I’ve finally formed some solid opinions, so here we go. This is a book about change in all its forms: death (and grief), destruction, creation, evolution, the way a person changes […]

This is definitely not my brand of heroin…

Midnight Sun by Stephenie Meyer

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I think this officially marks the end of the week of finishing my bingo-inspired bad choices. Well let’s be honest, I can’t really blame bingo for this one. Allow me to thoroughly embarrass myself for a moment:15 years ago, I was really into Twilight. I mean really into it, in a pre-ordering-the-books-as-they-came-out, getting-involved-in-fandom-on-LiveJournal,-reading-and-writing-fanfiction,-taking-the-train-to-Belgium-to-watch-the-movie-on-opening-weekend-because-it-took-a-couple-of-months-for-it-to-get-to-the-theater-in-France kind of way. And to be honest, I regret nothing. I made some pretty good friends during that time and even if I can acknowledge all the problematic things about it, I loved […]

A more than sufficient ending.

Any Way the Wind Blows by Rainbow Rowell

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“I understand that you’ve lost something— a lot of things— but you’re still the same person. I know, because I loved you then, and I love you now, and I know that’s not enough to make you happy— to make anyone happy— but you’re the same person, Simon. You’re still you.” ”It’s enough,” he finally grumbles. ”What is,” I whisper. ”The fact that you love me. It does make me happy.” The group is back from their wild adventure in America and they are all […]



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