Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“Let’s stop all the fight (Now)”

War Is Over by Sean Ono Lennon, Dave Mullins, Brad Booker, Max Narciso

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[Intro: Yoko Ono & John Lennon] Happy Christmas, Kyoko Happy Christmas, Julian [Verse 1: John Lennon] So this is Christmas And what have you done? Another year over And a new one just begun And so this is Christmas I hope you had fun The near and the dear ones The old and the young [Chorus: Yoko Ono & Harlem Community Choir] A very merry Christmas And a happy New Year Let’s hope it’s a good one Without any fear [Verse 2: John Lennon & Harlem Community […]

She might have been lost, but she found herself

The Lost Daughter of Sparta by Felicia Day

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The Lost Daughter of Sparta by Felicia Day was started as an online reader copy. It would also be finished that way, however, I did not realize the first copy I had was only a sample. After asking if there was a chance for a physical copy, I was informed that there was a finished copy online. Finally! So what should have been a couple of lunches was a several month endeavor. But regardless, I was going to finish this reimagined Greek myth.  When I […]

“It is early fall, the cold is beginning to descend, and in three months everyone in this house will be dead.”

Victorian Psycho: A Novel by Virginia Feito

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It fascinates me, the fact that human have the capacity to mortally wound one another at will, but for the most part, choose not to. Winifred Notty arrives at Ensor House, the familial home of the Pounds family, fully prepared to play the perfect Victorian governess. She’ll tutor her charges, Drusilla and Andrew, tell them bedtime stories, teach them about the French Revolution, and only joke about eating children. But the longer Winifred spends within the estate’s dreary confines dealing with the dreary family, the […]

“That is horrifying and I want to go home,” I said, although I pronounced it, “Ah, I see.”

What Stalks the Deep (Sworn Soldier #3) by T. Kingfisher

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Alex Easton is never going to get a break. First, it’s childhood friends of theirs getting slowly consumed by sentient mushrooms. Then it was nearly being killed by something that haunted dreams. And now, it’s America. They never wanted to visit America, especially an abandoned West Virginian coal mine that very well may be haunted. But when Dr. Denton, old friend and fellow survivor of the mushroom horror of Usher House, asks them to help find his cousin―who went missing in that very mine―well, what […]

What Love Story?

Liquid: A Love Story by Mariam Rahmani

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Our unnamed narrator is a post-doc struggling to find even adjunct-level jobs in the cutthroat world of academia. When she’s told that she’s not getting a single course in the fall, her best friend Adam – a marketer by day and poet by night – suggests she just try marrying rich. It’s a joke, but our narrator takes it seriously. She sets herself the task of going on 100 dates over the course of the summer, with the goal being a proposal (or at least […]

Dependable, violent fun from Ilona Andrews

The Inheritance by Ilona Andrews

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Bingo Square: I If you pay attention to the writing duo/married couple behind the pen name Ilona Andrews, you know that they every once in a while publish serialized stories on their website/blog, and often these intended short stories turn into novellas or full novels. Apparently, half of them are also aware of this while one still thinks they really could keep it to a short story. If you enjoy Ilona Andrews, you’ll see a lot of types that reoccur throughout their fiction – highly […]



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