Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Mine is: Damn it Jim…. Indeed.

Damn You, Entropy!: 1,001 of the Greatest Science Fiction Quotes by Guy P. Harrison

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From Dr. Who, to Fahrenheit 451, to The Walking Dead, to The X-files, to Douglas Adams, to Star Wars (1977) plus lots more (and that’s just the first two dozen pages), we find 1,001 of the Greatest Science Fiction Quotes (according to Guy P. Harrison) in Damn You, Entropy!: 1,001 of the Greatest Science Fiction Quotes. From Art to Hope to Humans to War to Intelligence to Quantum Realms, and much much more, there are quotes. To say that there is a lot packed into […]

Appetizing

Chinese Menu: The History, Myths, and Legends Behind Your Favorite Foods by Grace Lin

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Officially I have not finished Chinese Menu: The History, Myths, and Legends Behind Your Favorite Foods by Grace Lin. Not because it is a bad book, or because it is a hard read, but because it is actually a good collection of stories that you need to take your  time with. Lin takes myths, legends, some truths, historical facts and creative license and tells us the story of the menu of Chinese culture. I have only gotten  little over half way through, but want to […]

“Niceness is all about what we do when other people are looking. Kindness, on the other hand, runs deep. Kindness is what happens when no one’s looking.”

The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna

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I have been in a bit of a slump lately..my life has felt heavy, and so did my books. Not physically, but both my monthly book club selection (Heaven and Earth Grocery) and a read along with a friend (Beartown) cover darker topics and I needed a break!  I was craving some whimsy and lightness and this book was just what I needed. It’s a cozy, warm, found family fantasy (alliteration) that will bring a smile to your face. Mika Moon is a witch in Britain, […]

A very cozy book

The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown

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I got this book for my birthday purely because I do, often, judge books by their covers. The cover on this book was absolutely gorgeous. All of us have fallen victim to judging a book by its cover, I just didn’t expect it to work out so well in my favor this time. This book is about a young woman who works in a bookstore. She has befriended one of the regulars, who she talks to quite a bit. Until he dies in the bookstore, […]

My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante

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Do you know anyone  who’s just obsessed with what they were like as a little kid? They can talk for hours about their elementary school teachers, their friends from the neighborhood, first crushes, friendship betrayals, every time their parents were unfair to them, how mean their siblings could be, etc? Aren’t they just exhausting? My Brilliant Friend is the first volume of Ferrante’s Neapolitan Quartet, which followst two female friends throughout their entire lives. At the beginning, set in 2010, 60-something Elena Greco receives word […]

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Another Wild Robot book!

The Wild Robot Protects by Peter Brown

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This book is from the Wild Robot series, by Peter Brown. This series, and this book in particular, is heartwarming and charming. This book could cheer you up after any kind of day. This also comes with the advent of the movie just released based on the first book, which I have not seen yet, but am excited to. Let’s just get right into it I suppose. So first, assuming you’ve read the other two books, there are quite a few similarities. It is equally […]



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