Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“By the time you’re my age, you’ll realize that everything you once thought mattered so much turns out to mean very little.”

The Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin

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Cannonball Read Square: Star I received this book as a gift for the Cannonball Read Book Exchange last year, so that alone bumped it up my to-read pile. I’ve gotten more into science fiction in the past few years, and I’m always excited to read from non-American viewpoints, so it was an obvious choice for me. I’m a sucker for award winners, and this book won the Hugo Award and Liu Cixin is the nine time (!) winner of China’s Galaxy Award and Ken Liu […]

The sunshine and the grumpy one – now with added crime!

The Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes by Cat Sebastian

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CBR14 Bingo: Gaslight (Marian was lied to and manipulated by the duke, book also set in the Georgian era) Spoiler warning! I’m going to do my best to review this book without spoiling major plot points from The Queer Principles of Kit Webb or this book, but if you want to remain fully unspoiled, you’d probably want to skip this review until you’ve actually read the book. Which you should (read the book, I mean), it’s absolutely marvellous. Marian Hayes, believed to be the Duchess […]

The Werewolf Stuff

First Night Howlergarten by Benson Shum

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Sadly, I must start my review with a bit of bad news. Sorry folks, but August 2023 is when First Night Howlergarten will be out. However, I want to plug it now as it is FREAKING ADORALBE. And in the meantime, I will be keeping an eye out for more Benson Shum titles. This picture book has two things that I liked about it (a character who is not “over the top” and a slightly unique ending), but the whole package is enjoyable.  We are […]

Dear Reading Community Post two

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Dear Reading Community,   This is a book many of us grew up with. As an adult, reading why this book has been banned/challenged, I have to say I’ve mixed feelings. I grew up as a logger’s granddaughter and niece. My grandfather helped me to go to college because of it; my uncle put two children through college-level education because of it. My family might not have been completely “woke” but they knew ethical logging was important. Clear cutting was rarely an option, unless needed […]

Dear Reading Community Post one

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Dear Reading Community,   Today we gather to celebrate the week we know as Banned and Challenged Week. Not that we are for it, but because we are against it. And I would like to share a new poster I have found that features a book that is banned. Please read carefully why it has been. Thank you A fellow reader.

This book kicked me in the stomach, clubbed me over the head and said, “The end!”

The Storm of Echoes: The Mirror Visitor Book 4 by Christelle Dabos

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Cbr14bingo Heart — this book broke my heart and I’m angry Writing a review for this fourth and final installment in Christelle Dabos’ The Mirror Visitor series is going to be tough for a few reasons. All the story lines that have been set up in the previous books have to be resolved here and I’m not going to lie, things get super complicated and kinda weird. The other problem is that, having just finished the series, I am feeling emotionally drained. The author has […]



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