Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

O Hey! Johnnie Cope are ye waukin’ yet? Or are your drums a-beating yet?

The Bookseller of Inverness by S.G. MacLean

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After Culloden, Iain MacGillivray was left injured on Drumossie Moor. Wounded, his face brutally scarred from grapeshot, he survived only by pretending to be dead as the Redcoats patrolled the corpses of his Jacobite comrades. Six years later, with the clan chiefs routed and the Highlands subsumed into the British state, Iain lives a quiet life as a bookshop owner in Inverness. One day,  he notices a stranger lurking in the upper gallery of his shop, poring over his collection of Lord Lovat, the Old […]

“Alright. Let’s go rescue a corpse from some shrubbery.”

The Resurrectionist: A Novel by A. Rae Dunlap

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Edinburgh, Scotland, 1828. Naïve but determined James Willoughby has abandoned his posh, sheltered life at Oxford to pursue a lifelong dream of studying surgery in Edinburgh. (Side effect of this being that his father apparently drops dead of the horror, a fact that his family will never let him live down. Ah well; you win some, you lose some.) Edinburgh is where medical discovery is at in the age of New Enlightenment, and the city’s university offers everything James desires to get his career going—except […]

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The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera

A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna

Stolen Focus by Johann Hari

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Fetter was raised to be a weapon. From a young age, his mother has groomed him to one day assassinate his father, the messianic cult leader known as The Perfect and Kind. She even severed Fetter’s shadow, rendering him practically weightless. As a teenager, Fetter decides he doesn’t want to be a weapon and heads to the city of Luriat to live an unassuming life. However, he isn’t able to avoid upheaval for long. He attends a support group for failed Chosen Ones (they’re fairly […]

Death tells a story

Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt by Ben Reeves

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This book was heartbreaking. Somebody somewhere suggested it to me (it could’ve even been an article I read). We start out with Travis, who is Death. He kinda meanders through his life taking people when it’s their time. I think he lives in New York. Oh and a random white cat finds its way into his apartment (you can see it on the cover) and he’s just very kind to the cat. His solitude cracks a little bit when an eight-year-old neighbor named Layla starts […]

I feel like I read two different novels

This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me by Ilona Andrews

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CBR18 BINGO: 26, because it was published in 2026 Just shy of the halfway point in This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me, I was struggling to understand why it came so highly recommended. At the start of the novel, the heroine, Maggie, finds herself alone and naked in a ditch, in a world that she knows from her favorite fantasy series. While not a completely new premise, it’s a provocative setup. Maggie’s initial challenge is to find food, clothes, and shelter, and for that she […]

A new friend suggestion that I loved! We have a winner!

Total Chaos #2 Loving a Witch Is Totally Foolish by Aura Hayes

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My new spin friends suggested this series to me a few months ago. I listened to the first book (Loving a Vampire is Total Chaos) first and loved it. I didn’t realize it was a series at first though. And then I got to the end of this book and was super sad that the third (and final I think) book isn’t out until December. So “total chaos” is really a good description of this series. The characters in the first book – Zav (a […]



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