Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Greek gods + The Hunger Games, but so much worse

Blood of Hercules by Jasmine Mas

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I am in a bit of a slump, and this seemed passably interesting. The cover is pretty and Hoopla tells me it’s popular? Set in the future, which, it must be said, sucks. Titans have emerged (from where?) to murder humanity, prompting Spartans (collective name for Greek Olympians) to reveal themselves after millennia in hiding in order to dispatch them. Spartans—you and I know them as Olympians-have their own internal conflict which forces the losing district (Chthonics) to serve as the Titan death squad. Anyway, […]

Isn’t There a White Knight Upon a Fiery Steed?

The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood

Love Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood

Not in Love by Ali Hazelwood

Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood

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Alternate Titles: Obtuse Women and the Men Who Love Them Tall, Professional Man Owns His Own Home What Makes Us Vulnerable Makes Us Human This contemporary romance review started with just The Love Hypothesis and morphed into an amalgamated Ali Hazelwood catchall. I didn’t combine them just because it’s quicker, but because I really struggled with conveying my feelings about The Love Hypothesis. Then I had had a bit of breakthrough while re-reading it Love Theoretically and Not in Love for Cannonball Read honesty purposes, then I […]

Life… uh, finds a way

Jurassic Park by Michael Chrichton

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I may be in the minority on this, but I prefer reading books after seeing the movie or show they are adapted from. I didn’t read the Song of Ice and Fire books until I was watching the second season of Game of Thrones. I didn’t read Fight Club, No Country for Old Men, or The Shining until years after I had seen the movies multiple times. I think I prefer to go into a movie fresh, not knowing what is going to happen, and […]

Lost in Translation

Babel by R.F. Kuang

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After reading and enjoying the Poppy War trilogy, I was excited to see a new book by R.F. Kuang. I found the world of Babel intriguing right away. It is mostly set in Victorian era England, but where much of the technological progress of the industrial revolution has been replaced by a form of magic imbued into silver bars. The people working the magic into the silver are the translators of Oxford University. They work on finding translations of words from various languages into English, […]

This broke my brain.

Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie

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Thoughts that lead to action can be dangerous. Thoughts that do not, mean less than nothing. ― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice Ships have feelings. ― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice Nineteen years, three months, and one week before I found Seivarden in the snow, I was a troop carrier orbiting the planet Shis’urna. ― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice One Esk is an ancillary of the sentient ship called Justice of Toren. The ship has human avatars, known as ancillaries, which were acquired via conquest. Justice of […]



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