Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

A fun read, but possibly too light-hearted

Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree

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3.5 stars Twenty years before the events in Legends & Lattes, Viv is a young and relatively inexperienced mercenary, who gets badly injured fighting undead monsters while hunting for a powerful necromancer. Her mercenary band leave her in the quiet and mostly empty seaside town of Murk to heal up and recuperate. She worries that the group are going to leave her there, but thankfully, to take her mind off her fears, she encounters the local bookshop owner, who manages to persuade her (Viv has […]

Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, and Future Of Blizzard Entertainment

Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, and Future Of Blizzard Entertainment by Jason Schreier

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This has been a book on my radar since it came out, but I had been delaying it because Blizzard at the end of the day, wasn’t a huge part of my life. But reading through the book was a fascinating journey through the history of the industry, the company, and a little bit, some revisiting of my history. To start, Jason Shreier does a fantastic job in this book. Comprised of 300 plus interviews from former blizzard and industry players, he weaves a great […]

Sing Me Sweet Nothings! Or, Don’t.

Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun

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    My mom’s family is solid Norwegian – I am only second generation American on that side.  So much of this book struck home with me.  Those people can work, and so nonchalantly, too.  Many don’t realize that until fairly recently, Norway was a very poor country, with steep rocky soil and a very short growing season.  Most of the men were out on the sea for most of the year as fishermen or merchant seaman, while the women stayed home to tend their […]

“You can’t legally brag about your son since you named him “Carl”.”

I Hope This Finds You Well by Natalie Sue

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Jolene copes with her soul-sucking job by pretending to be invisible and ranting at her coworkers in emails in white text. But when she’s found out, she’s sentenced to anti-harassment training with the cute new HR rep and restrictions on her computer – except it turns out that she’s accidentally been given access to the emails of every single of her coworkers instead. Often funny and often sad and very much filled with petty office politics which verge just on unbelievable sometimes. Jolene is a […]

A fun read but current events in Crimea affected the reading

The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde

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My Mom has been trying to get me to read Jasper Fforde books for easily over a decade.  Not sure why I’ve resisted.  Though perhaps it’s due to our different reading preferences.  She only likes a small percentage of recommendations I make .  Naturally, The Murderbot Diaries was one success but mostly I miss.  With how long she’s been persistent I read “The Eyre Affair”, I have felt pressured to like it.  Which has made me drag my feet.  I borrowed it two years ago […]

From hustle and bustle to buzz and whirr

Nightsong by Sally Soweol Han

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Nightsong by Sally Soweol Han is a story about a young boy who is tired of visiting the adults with his adult (assuming mother). But soon it is time to go home and the adult and child head for the bus, hop on and are leaving the city behind. Until the wheels on the bus don’t go round and round, and one needs to be fixed. A long day got longer, but our young boy decided to listen to the sounds around him and explore […]



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