Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Definitely worth every penny!

Legendborn by Tracy Deonn

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Legendborn is an amazing book. It’s set in modern day, at a college. But it’s fantasy, so with an Arthurian explanation, and a blood tie, you have a bunch of modern-day knights. The main character, Bree, isn’t one of them. But on her first night of college life, she sees something she can’t explain. This, as you can expect, is the start of several hundred pages of chaos. I loved this book so much, it was fantastic. I love a good Arthur and his knights […]

I wish I’d read this as a kid instead

Wishtree by Katherine Applegate

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Knowing my love for her other book, The One and Only Ivan, my wife picked this up for me at a recent trip to the thrift store. The concept behind it sounded cute enough: what if a tree, as well as all the creatures that live in and around it, could (secretly) talk? And I’m sure, had I read this as a kid, I would’ve found it a charming and funny read, what with all the dad jokes and weird naming-conventions for the different creatures. As […]

Like a Lead Balloon

Elevation by Stephen King

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g With only a few audio book hours left in my Spotify account for the month, I decided to cross this brief novella off my list. Stephen King, the king of premises, has come up with another intriguing idea. His main character, Scott, is a generic good guy Mainer who abruptly realizes that despite looking just the same as he always has, he is steadily losing weight. Ever more curiously, he weighs the same clothing or unclothed. He even weighs the same when he’s holding […]

No More Robert Bloch For Me

More Nightmares by Robert Bloch

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This is my second time reading a collection of Robert Bloch short stories and my last. His stories are never real standouts for me and there was one in particular in this collection that was so racist it turned me off of him completely as a writer. The cover is great, though, very eye-catching and a fun example of classic 1960s SF/F art. I wish they listed who did it in the copyright page, but at this time I guess it was seen as work […]

Love it, but maybe not for everyone

White Fang by Jack London

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I’ve read this book maybe 20 times, and love it more each time. It’s such a comfort, although it is on the bleakest of topics. One of the first lines is “The land itself was desolation, lifeless, without movement, so lone and cold that the spirit in it was not even that of sadness.” Yet, it makes me happy. It’s set within the Gold Rush era, everyone traveling on sleighs led by dogs. The main character of White Fang is a dog, well, technically a […]

A Bittersweet Read

The Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas

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The Sunbearer Trials is based on Mexican mythology, set in a world in which every ten years, a competition is held. There are reasons but the important thing for the main character Teo, the son of the goddess of the birds, is that the winner gets to bring light to the land, and the loser is sacrificed. While this doesn’t directly affect Teo, it affects his best friend. However, when the time comes for the selection, he gets chosen. I think my favorite part about this […]



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