Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“For love is no part of the dreamworld. Love belongs to Desire, and Desire is always cruel.”

The Sandman, Vol. 2: The Doll's House by Neil Gaiman

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I didn’t like this one as much as I did the first one, and I don’t think it’s because I read the Kindle version. The whole series is on Kindle Unlimited (the 30th anniversary editions), a service I’m already paying for, so why not try it out in that medium? The formatting on the Kindle version is actually pretty great when you get into the actual comic. The story zooms in on panels and focuses on all the right spots, and it’s big enough to […]

The final Edge book.

Steel's Edge (The Edge, #4) by Ilona Andrews

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Finally buckling down to write this review. I finished the book two and a half months ago, so it’s not going to be my best. Steel’s Edge is the last book in The Edge series, a fantasy/romance set of books that focus on the Edge, a place on the border between our reality (which they call the Broken) and a magical world (called the Weird). Our hero is Richard Mar, the brother of Kaldar from book three. Richard is on a self-imposed quest to wipe […]

“When you have chosen a path, you must walk it with courage.”

Memories of Ash by Intisar Khanani

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Memories of Ash is the second instalment of the Sunbolt Chronicles, a series that I hope goes on forever, but only just till the day I die, so that there will never exist a book in the series that I haven’t read. Memories of Ash meets Hikaru as she is living with Brigit Stormwind in a hidden valley being trained as a secret apprentice. One day a rogue hunter (as in someone who hunts secret apprentices) comes knocking; Stormwind has been charged with multiple crimes […]

Imagine this

Flora’s Tree House by Gabriel Alborozo

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Do you have a sibling? Well, if you do, you know that you do not always get along. But sometimes, they can be your best friend. And in Flora’s Tree House we see a sweet story about siblings that shows you might not always like them, but you usually love them, and they can be your best friend. And we see in Gabriel Alborozo’s book how Flora and Will check off all the boxes. Will: pesky brother, adventurous, loud. Flora: thoughtful, artistic, likes Will’s inspirations […]

I know it means he’s not working on Winds of Winter

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms by George R. R. Martin

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…I don’t care because I will take whatever A Song of Ice and Fire I can get. Even if it’s the side adventures of Dunk and Egg. Maybe especially if. No. I still want WoW more. But these help hold me over. I’m in the home stretch of my ASoIaF re-read and somehow had only ever read one of the side novels so I was absolutely delighted to get A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms in from the library (the wait for Fire & Blood is quite a bit longer). […]

Nothing erases the past. There is repentance, there is atonement, and there is forgiveness. That is all, but that is enough.

Exhalation by Ted Chiang

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I’ve seen Arrival and liked it but didn’t read the story collection it’s drawn from. There’s about ten movies in this book to be made and they should all be very good. There’s two basic kinds of stories in this collection. Very very short ones that explore a singular idea for a few pages and then leave off. These tend to be interesting, but ultimately small and not completely fulfilling. And then there’s longer stories that present a conceit to work through, but also works […]



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