Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Don’t Mess With a Family of Honey Badgers!

Hot and Badgered by Shelly Laurenston

In a Badger Way by Shelly Laurenston

Badger to the Bone by Shelly Laurenston

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Bingo Square: Cannonballer Says (emmalita’s review here) I picked up the first novel in the trilogy based on emmalita’s recommendation and ended up reading the entire trilogy  back to back.  I figured out I’d start with some general observations and commentary about the trilogy as a whole and then go into book specific. I have never read anything by Laurenston before but I quite enjoyed this trilogy – it focuses on the Mackilligan sisters, Charlie, Max and Stevie – they all share the same honey […]

One of the best books I’ll read this year

The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune

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#CBR12 Bingo: I Wish (Travelling anywhere right now seems like an utter impossibility, but I would love to be able to hang out on Marsyas Island with its cast of unique residents) Linus Baker does not live an exciting or interesting life. When he’s not visiting orphanages and checking up on children and teens with unusual abilities or magical powers, he sits in his utterly anonymous cubicle and writes detailed and thorough reports. He goes home to his non-descript little house, occasionally exchanges words with his […]

See you yesterday Lizzie

Doctor Who:  The Runaway Tardis by Kim Smith

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cbr12bingo I wish I told someone today I am a “baby geek.” I can tell you the difference between Star Wars and Star Trek. I know Tom Baker is the “Doctor with the Scarf” and knew I would laugh alone when someone said I was a Shield Agent due to my required mask being a face shield, and them not getting the connection. And the Pop Classics book series (popular culture such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Back to the Future, and X-Files in a […]

Toss a coin to your witcher. #CBRBingo – Adaptation

Sword of Destiny (The Witcher, #0.75) by Andrzej Sapkowski

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I have really turned around on this series! I feel like I need to re-read the first book now before moving onto the series proper, because I only experienced it in a grudging manner, and didn’t appreciate it for its good qualities. I will also be honest in that it was entirely the Netflix show that did the turning. I enjoyed it so much that it crystallized for me retroactively what people were seeing in the books. This second book in the Witcher series is […]

Sarah J. Maas – now with a whole lot of supernatural creatures and more swearing

House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas

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#CBR12 Bingo: Red Official book description: Half-Fae, half-human Bryce Quinlan loves her life. By day, she works for an antiquities dealer, selling barely legal magical artifacts, and by night, she parties with her friends, savoring every pleasure Lunathion—otherwise known as Crescent City— has to offer. But it all comes crumbling down when a ruthless murder shakes the very foundations of the city—and Bryce’s world. Two years later, her job has become a dead end, and she now seeks only blissful oblivion in the city’s most […]

Warm Fuzzy Feelings

The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune

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I have been very vocal in the last few months on the fact that the current cultural zeitgeist is that dark equal deep and that the entertainment we consume has no place left for complex emotions like joy, sweetness and even melancholy (the good kind). This was further aggravated by the discourse around The Last of Us II, and how it forces the player to commit cruel acts for the sake of trying to create a complex story.  I also spent most of the last […]



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