Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

If you like reading about cults, you’ll love Fog Island

Fog Island by Mariette Lindstein

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I’m using this for my “New Series” bingo square. This is the first in a planned trilogy of novels about “the cult on Fog Island.”  Originally written in Swedish, this novel takes place on an island off the mainland of Sweden where an idealistic group of people adhere to the principles of Via Terra – a way of living that returns to the earth. Sofia is a young woman who is searching for something, and she finds it at a lecture about Via Terra by […]

Formula Still Works

Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty

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BINGO: Flora – Apple tree Best for: Fans of the genre. In a nutshell: Joy and Stan have four children, and have recently retired from running a tennis school. All of them have played tennis competitively, though none still play professionally as adults. Last year, a stranger appeared at their door, and Joy and Stan took her in. Six months later, the stranger has been gone for a bit, and Joy has gone missing. Worth quoting: “It happened all the time. Talented kids turned into […]

A Whale Would Not Be the Strangest Thing in the Endless Universe – It Gets Stranger

The Dreaming, Volume 1: Pathways and Emanations by Simon Spurrier

The Dreaming, Volume 2: Empty Shells by Simon Spurrier

The Dreaming, Volume. 3: One Magic Movement by Simon Spurrier

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  It’s The Sandman! I love The Sandman. How did I end up putting a Sandman based property on my White Whale list? I guess The Dreaming ended up a bit on the White Whale side for two reasons: 1) When I read the original Sandman series about ten years ago, I binge read them over a few nights. This helped to both keep my immersion in the series and follow the plot. The original could be confusing as all hell at times. 2) I […]

For the night is dark, and full of terrors

Through the Woods by Emily Carroll

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4.5 stars CBR13 Bingo: Shelfie In five creepy stories ranging from the historical to more recent times, writer and artist Emily Carroll gives us her take on proper spine-tingling fairy tales. Accompanied by her absolutely beautiful art, the tales are all the more chilling because of the illustrations. This absolutely qualifies as a graphic novel, or probably more accurately a graphic short story (or fairy tale) anthology. Some of the stories are short, some are longer, all managed to truly unnerve me, while also entertaining […]

I miss going on vacations

People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry

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3.5 stars CBR13 Bingo: Travel Official book description: Two best friends. Ten summer trips. One last chance to fall in love. Poppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in common. She’s a wild child; he wears khakis. She has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to stay home with a book. And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends. For most of the year they live far apart—she’s in New York City, […]

Brave New World. Meh.

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

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I’ve been curious about this book for a long time. 1984 by George Orwell was one of my favorite books as an adolescent, and Brave New World is often mentioned in the same breath. So when I found a Brave New World mini-series, I thought I’d check it out.  The mini-series stars Jessica Brown Findlay (Lady Sybil from Downton Abbey), Harry Lloyd (Viserys Targaryen from GOT), and Alden Ehrenreich (Young Han Solo from Solo), and it tells the story of a “utopic” future London where […]



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