Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

My childhood #Gateway into the genre I love most

The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander

The Castle of Llyr by Lloyd Alexander

Taran Wanderer by Lloyd Alexander

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Bingo Square: Gateway Bingo #1! Red/Gateway/Fresh Start/Cannonballer Says/Money I have loved fantasy since I can remember. I don’t actually remember when I started reading it, but I credit it to my deep and abiding love for Lloyd Alexander’s Prydain Chronicles. Although I have no vivid memories of the first time I read it (aside from one shocking moment in The Black Cauldron), I reread the series regularly throughout my childhood and my teenage years. I loved them every time. Aside from The Book of Three, which […]

A Terry Pratchett Roundup! #Happy

Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett

Hogfather by Terry Pratchett

Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett

Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett

Snuff by Terry Pratchett

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I am continuing on my quest reading through Terry Pratchett’s oeuvre, especially audiobooks–they provide a nice break from other reading, especially when I’m cooking or cleaning or on short walks. I’ve also started listening to some with my husband during evenings when we just want to relax, so I have his thoughts on some of them (we have moved on from Poirot, at least for now). This combined review inclides a long rant on Snuff. I’m counting these as a combined entry for Bingo under Happy […]

It might just be my mood, but this was meh

Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins

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I was first recommended this book around a decade ago by a colleague but couldn’t find a copy of it at the time, and so over the years I’ve kept my eye out for so I could snatch up a copy as soon as it appeared. Having since got my hands on a copy, I’m now wondering if a ten year build of anticipation was always going to end it disappointment as I found this to be completely underwhelming. This really shouldn’t have been the […]

Faerie relationship etiquette is really strange, but I really like some aspects of it.

A Killing Frost by Seanan McGuire

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Spoiler warning! This is book 14 in an ongoing series. You will be pretty hopelessly lost if this is the first one you pick up. This is an excellent paranormal fantasy series, but the place to start is with Rosemary and Rue. Also, there may be plot discussion about events that have happened earlier in the series, so don’t read the review unless you’re actually caught up. Official book description: When October is informed that Simon Torquill—legally her father, due to Faerie’s archaic marriage traditions—must be […]

Another Ilona Andrews book I absolutely loved. Are you surprised? (double bingo)

Emerald Blaze by Ilona Andrews

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4.5 stars #CBR12 Bingo: Green   Spoiler warning! This is the fifth book total in the Hidden Legacy series, and the second book about Catalina Baylor. This review may spoil details from previous books in the series. If you want to start at the very beginning, the book you want is Burn for Me. If you want to start with Catalina’s books, the first book is Sapphire Flames.    It’s been about six months since the end of the last book, where Catalina Baylor made a very unfortunate, iron-clad deal with […]

Sometimes the Horrors We Create In Our Minds Are Easier to Exist With Than Reality

The Saturday Night Ghost Club by Craig Davidson

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“Reality never changes. Only our recollections of it do. Whenever a moment passes, we pass along with it into the realm of memory. And in that realm, geometries change. Contours shift, shades lighten, objectivities dissolve. Memory becomes what we need it to be.” The Saturday Night Ghost Club is a coming-of-age novel that takes place over one fateful summer where lessons are learned and relationships take on new meanings. Our protagonist is a 12 year-old boy named Jake, living in Niagara Falls in the 1980s. […]



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