Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Magic and dragons and Aunties oh my!

Tidesong by Wendy Xu

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cbr13bingo Pandemic    Tidesong is the graphic novel adventures of Sophie, her cousin Sage, and Great-Aunt Lan, along with a lost dragon named Lir. The magical journeys they experience bring them into a world of true magic, friendship and the real meaning of family and responsibilities. Sophie wants to go to the Royal Academy of magic. The best in the land. And not just because her mother and grandmother want her to. Of course, she first must learn to control the magic she has and […]

exactly what the blurb promises–a twisty political intrigue with a bit of ~magic~

The Councillor by E.J. Beaton

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Rec’d!: This book was recommended via Aquilla’s truly amazing review and is definitely one that I would never have run into myself. It’s the perfect example of why book reviews are so great, and finding a circle of reviewers with whom you connect is so amazing. SO this book. To quickly recap: the queen of a collection of four city-states/duchies(?) and one capital city has died without an heir, and as such a Councillor has been appointed to pick a new monarch from the rulers of […]

seriously bereft that I read this so quickly and that there won’t be any more

Any Way the Wind Blows by Rainbow Rowell

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People, a cover with our favorite SnowBaz on the cover, in their trademark wings and three piece suit! I didn’t have the patience to re-read Carry On and Wayward Son before this came off hold–so I tried to find some “Previously on…” type reviews. One in particular scared me–it talked about how the books read “like fanfiction” in that there’s no recapping, on the assumption that every reader had devoured the prior works a hundred times over. They were right, and also wrong. Yes, this book does read like […]

My dream cast for Gods Behaving Badly

Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips

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I picked this book up because I love a mythical retelling, and it was pretty fun. The entire time I was reading this book, I kept trying to think about the casting, because I think it would be a fun movie or miniseries. And because I’m a sucker for polytheistic, supernatural beings being forced to live in the modern world. Gods Behaving Badly finds the Olympian gods trapped in a house in London in the 20th century. They have lost much of their power, and […]

Baal – Robert McCammon (1978)

Baal by Robert McCammon

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CBR13Bingo – Travel (Trigger Warning: sexual violence) One of my favorite tropes that happens in movies is when a character starts to realize that maybe their nextdoor neighbor is a vampire or whatever, and so they go to the library and get some giant book about vampires, and in one chapter there’s all the relevant information right there, and even a few illustrations to go with it that looks almost exactly like the character we’ve seen on screen. Crazy! Recent movies and books have of […]

Childhood Sci Fi Romp

House of Stairs by William Sleator

Interstellar Pig by William Sleator

Parasite Pig by William Sleator

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This was going to be a bigger romp, but once I got ahold of all these books I read as a kid, I just wasn’t as inspired as I thought I would be.   House of Stairs: 5/5 Stars As with most of the William Sleator books this is one that I read as a kid. I recall having to make a few attempts to get through it, and I understand now. The book is relatively oblique about its characters and plot. One at a […]



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