Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

The History of the Computer

The History of the Computer by Rachel Ignotofsky

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The History of the Computer is exactly what it sounds like, and it does a wonderful job. Over the course of the book it highlights the beginnings of algorithmic thinking via Ada Lovelace, through the mainframe computers like UNIVAC, up to a forward looking take on modern computing that, shockingly, already feels a little outdated because it was written pre-ChatGPT, and many of the things it speculates about with generative AI are already coming true. This is another one where I really can’t say a […]

An easy summer sampler of delightful and improbable scenarios

Best Women's Erotica of the Year (Best Women's Erotica Series Book 7) by Rachel Kramer Bussel

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CBR15Bingo: Bodies Bodies CBR15Passport: Recommended to me I have Emmalita and her review of Best Women’s Erotica of the Year, Volume 8 to thank for turning me onto this collection. Volume 7 did not disappoint. I keep trying to come up with a good metaphor using chocolate but I’m at a loss. After reading the first three short stories in linear fashion, I quickly learned that skipping around a bit was more suited to my reading style. Each story is self-contained, therefore it is easy […]

Nothing Says Different Times Like Tobacco Power Plays

The Case of the Black-Eyed Blonde by Erle Stanley Gardner

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cbr15bingo Nostalgia You did what, Sergeant Holcomb?  You put Perry Mason and Della Street in separate holding cells, and then you had the both of them strip searched?  Oh, son, you just made a huge mistake.  That is so not on.  You are so going down. OK, let’s back up a bit.  Diane Regis, she with the shiner, has made her way to Mason’s office dressed in a fur coat and not much underneath.  Seems as though her employer’s step-son (she’s a radio actress, employed […]

Girl, Forgotten

Girl, Forgotten by Karin Slaughter

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For some time now, I have been recommended Karin Slaughter as an author whose work I would thoroughly enjoy. Known for her slow burn thrillers, one of her most recent works, Pieces of Her, was adapted into a limited Netflix series. I didn’t know this when I picked up Girl, Forgotten, and thankfully it wasn’t necessary to have read the previous book as this book is only tangentially related to Pieces. The novel follows Andrea Oliver, a newly graduated US Marshal and daughter of Laura […]

Dune, The Graphic Novel Vol. 1

Dune, The Graphic Novel Vol. 1 by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson

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Dune is the sort of fiction I can and have consumed in as many forms of media as I can reach: the original novel, two movies, a TV show, and now a graphic novel series. There is so much imagination and fantastic imagery in this series that consuming different versions can be an entirely different window into the series from another. So was adding an additional window worth it? Yes. Why? The worms. The Sandworms in Dune are one of its key features (only more […]

Don’t go breaking my heart…

King by SJ TILLY

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King by SJ Tilly is a dark Mafia romance that I read on Kindle Unlimited because it kept pushing it on me as a selection I’d like to read. I enjoyed King for the most part, but it’s kind of weird. It’s got grumpy sunshine vibes, insta love bordering on obsession, a great dog, ThunderSex™, and a massive case of what I can only describe as Stockholm Syndrome. The protagonists meet with a pretty original, if highly unlikely meet cute. Savannah is on a third […]



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