Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Is anyone else annoyed they changed the order of the Chronicles of Narnia?

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

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“The Chronicles of Narnia” were my introduction to fantasy as a child.  I was given the series as a Christmas present and I remember spending the rest of winter break reading them.  This particular re-read was to introduce my 7 year old daughter to Narnia and I’m thoroughly annoyed that recent editions of the series has re-arranged the order of the books.  My set was ordered: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, Prince Caspian, Voyage of the Dawn Treader, The Silver Chair, A Horse and […]

The lies that bind us

The Girl Who Drank The Moon by Kelly Barnhill

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Though The Girl Who Drank The Moon is apparently for youngsters, there’s a lot in here that olds will love too. On the edge of a forest, villagers leave a baby each year as an offering to the witch they’ve grown up terrified of. As far as they’re concerned, by giving up the baby’s life, they’ll be safeguarding their own for another year. Meanwhile, the perplexed witch hurries to collect the abandoned babies, nourishing them with starlight until she can find them loving families on […]

I am a purist

A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin

A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin

A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin

A Feast for Crows by George R. R. Martin

A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin

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Is it fair to do a single review for all five A Song of Ice and Fire novels? Probably not, but I reread the series basically as a single unit and can no longer tell what happened in which book, so here we go. I love these books – yes, all five. Yes, that includes A Feast for Crows – and am a staunch better-than-the-show purist. I get really annoying about it and my fiance has just learned to smile and nod and ever since I […]

Who hasn’t know a Unicorn?

Unicorn Is Maybe Not So Great After All by Bob Shea

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I am not sure how Unicorn Is Maybe Not So Great After All by Bob Shea compares to the first book (Unicorn Thinks He’s Pretty Great) as I have not read it (or if I have, it made no impression whatsoever). This time Unicorn is jealous of the new “hot thing” (rubber bands looking like other things: a soccer ball, wagon wheel, port holes…) and tries to make a new and improved Unicorn. Of course, the plan backfires with a face full of glitter. A […]

Book two is definitely the highlight of this series, but this is a pretty good ending.

A Court of Wings and Ruin (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #3) by Sarah J. Maas

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This actually reminded me a lot of the ending to Throne of Glass; I had similar issues with it. But ultimately, this was a pretty good finish to the series. I definitely didn’t like it as much as I liked the second book. It was much messier, structurally. She just really isn’t great in my opinion at writing that end of series final battle book. She relies pretty heavily on deus ex machinas, and a lot of the intimate character growth we got last book […]

“The thing is, I mean, there’s times when you look at the universe and you think, ‘What about me?’ and you can just hear the universe replying, ‘Well, what about you?'”

Thief of Time (Discworld, #26) by Terry Pratchett

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There wasn’t enough Death in this, but then again, he’s done all his growing already in other books, so that was probably the smart choice. I still really enjoyed it. The actual main characters of this book are Death’s granddaughter, Susan, who has reached the ultimate peak of her badassdom; a history monk named Lu-Tze; and his apprentice, Lobsang. The history monks are cool. They live in this place where Time doesn’t really exist, and their job is to basically monitor history, and in a […]



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