Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

I just couldn’t connect with this despite enjoying the author’s previous works

The Raven Spell by Luanne G. Smith

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BINGO – Gaslight Sisters Edwina and Mary Blackwood have to move around quite a bit. Any time their neighbors catch wind of what they really are, they must move. Witches aren’t the most tolerated group of people in Victorian England (hence the gaslight). Edwina has the innate ability to find shiny objects and her sister Mary can capture the memories of morals which she only tries to do right before they pass on. Unfortunately Mary accidentally took the memories of a detective who was not […]

Grief and Hope – the human experience

How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu

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BINGO – New This is going to be a difficult book to summarize because I would not consider it a novel. It’s closer to a collection of short stories, but that’s not quite right either. It’s something in between. There’s a long form improv format in which the audience sees a scene with Person A and Person B. Something in that scene sparks an idea for a scene tangentially connected between Person B and Person C. Then a connected scene between Person C and D, […]

An alternate history of the space program? Sign me up!

The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal

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It’s 1952, and a meteorite has just impacted in the Chesapeake Bay, instantly obliterating much of the east coast, including Washington, DC (and all the important stuff therein). Enter Elma York, a former WASP pilot and current computer for the space program. Elma is a math whiz, and shortly works out that the cataclysm is actually an extinction-level event. As go the dinosaurs, so are about to go the people. Humanity’s response to the impending disaster is to look towards the stars: if Earth will […]

Not for young in age, but young at heart

My Little Pony/Transformers: The Magic of Cybertron by Various

The My Little Pony: Friends Forever Volume 2 by Various

My Little Pony Friends Forever #9 by Various

My Little Pony: Friends Forever Omnibus, Vol. 3. by Various

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I’m a kid of the 1980s and still a fan of good Saturday morning cartoons. One of those was The Transformers (okay good might be a loosely used term, but I stand by it) and sure, I was a little into My Little Ponies, but not like my younger sister (who btw is mom to a nephew I will mention in a bit, but as I only have the one sibling, that is redundant). When I saw that the powers that be had created a […]

When do clones become people?

The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey

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BINGO – Scandal Evelyn, famed geneticist and ground-breaking scientist, discovers that her husband is leaving her for– well, her. A clone of her at least named Martine that her ex-husband created using her own research. A clone that should just be a tool used for a specific purpose and not something that should be treated like a human being. And yet, Martine the clone exists and operates in the world as a fully formed person, and Martine the clone has done something else that shouldn’t […]

Oh Olive…

The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood

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I picked this up because it kept coming up in CBR14 reviews. After researching it a little bit, it seems that it is hugely popular. I was intrigued to find out what made it more than the average romcom-type romance. Plus I was very curious to find out whatever it has to do with ReyLo. Olive, a struggling biology grad student, kisses a random guy in her lab, her intent being to show her best friend that she has completely moved on from her ex […]



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