Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Gloriously Deranged Insanity

Harrow The Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

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Sorry, but it’s nigh on impossible to discuss this book without mentioning the endgame from Gideon The Ninth. You probably shouldn’t be picking up this book anyhow if you haven’t read Gideon. And if you have read Gideon, perhaps give it a bit of a re-read before embarking on Harrow The Ninth. You will thank me later. This book enjoys being tricky Man, this was one of my most anticipated books of the summer. After the wild ride that was Gideon The Ninth, I was […]

Keep with the New Fun magic Falcons or Stick with the Plan?

The Tethered Mage by Melissa Caruso

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Bingo Review 15: Fresh Start I’ve kind of had my eye on The Tethered Mage, Book One of the Swords and Fire trilogy, and using it for the starting a new series square worked out just fine. Looking at the cover I actually just noticed that one of my favorite fantasy writers, Genvieve Cogman, approved of it too; I don’t always have great luck with things authors I like like, but maybe this is an exception. I should also admit that by the end I […]

It has taken me eleven years to get through this book.

Phantom (Sword of Truth, #10) by Terry Goodkind

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I mean, I’m being hyperbolic, because reading this felt like it took forrreevvver, but I’m also being literal. I started this series in summer 2009. It has never taken me so long to get through a series. I did the Wheel of Time in three years, and there are more books in that series, and the books are longer (mostly). So it is slightly weird that I’m so close to the end now. I’ve only got one more book left! I’m not doing any of […]

The Heroines We Wanted in Childhood

Cheshire Crossing by Andy Weir & Sarah Anderson

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I’m not usually into graphic novels, but my friend showed up to our weekly DnD game with “Cheshire Crossing,” and was like, ‘you have to read this!’ Being that it was free (hello, #no money bingo square), I did, and was not disappointed. Now, I still haven’t read the Martin, so I didn’t realize who Andy Weir was, but I love Sarah Anderson’s art, and from the start, the cover and all the comics of this graphic novel are gorgeous. Weir’s writer’s note on the first […]

Don’t you cry no more

Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell

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CBR Square: Yellow After the events of Carry On, Simon Snow has saved the day! And lost his magic, spending his days like any student who suddenly has no job, no plan, and no life meaning; sleeping on the couch. So, he’s wallowing, but he has good reason to wallow. When his best friend, Penny, uses visiting his ex, Agatha, as an excuse to road trip across the country, Simon and his vampire boyfriend Baz set off for America together. Somehow no one understands American […]

This Was Exactly My Kind of Weird.

Middlegame by Seanan McGuire

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  My heart goes out to Seanan McGuire this year, really it does. As I mentioned in a previous post, this year’s Best Novel nominees for the Hugo Awards was really strong, and if it were any other year, I think Middlegame would have taken the crown. It’s one of my favourite books that I’ve ever read from Seanan McGuire – nearly beating out some of her best Toby Daye novels too. It did score a Locus award though, so I hope that’s some consolidation, […]



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