Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Camp Half-Blood 4 Life (Percy Jackson and the Olympians series review)

The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan

The Titan’s Curse by Rick Riordan

The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan

The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan

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I read this series when it was originally published and didn’t think about it much after I’d finished. I liked it, yes, but it wasn’t a new obsession for me and I never really planned on revisiting Percy’s world. Then I watched the teaser for the Disney+ show coming out next year and checked them out from the library and that’s how I spent my last two weeks. The series follows Percy Jackson, who finds out he’s a demigod, the son of Poseidon and a […]

Beauty and the Beast, Shackled

Marvelous by Molly Greeley

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CBR 15 Bingo: Bodies, Bodies – Most everyone in this book is concerned with Petrus’s body – specifically the coat of hair that covers all of it. Pedro, a young boy with the rare condition that caused him to be covered with hair from head to foot, is bought as a gift for the French king, and eventually is married to Catherine, the beautiful daughter of a penniless merchant. I have heard of the story of Petrus Gonsalvus, but only in passing, merely the fact […]

sometimes all we want is to see the other half live (bad lives)

Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson

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I could have gone to see Jenny Jackson at a reading at Hatchard’s in London but it clashed with another reading I had with Sólrun Michelsen, the first Faroese Island author to be translated into English (??? can that be right? you see how much I retain when information is conveyed aurally). That’s just a sentence I wanted to share—it seems to perfectly encapsulate the sort of blithe, literary life that I aspire to. I admit that I 1000% got suckered into the promotional material for this […]

A Spell of Good Things by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀

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Cannonball Passport: Still in Nigeria~ Adébáyọ̀ is on some well-trod ground with this, her second (?) book that examines the intersection between the haves and have nots—a dynamic replicated worldwide (oh hi, San Francisco/New York/London) but of particular interest when set in Nigeria, where most of the Western world assumes that there’s mainly have nots that need to be white savior’d. Eniola is the eldest son of an unemployed father, a professor who cannot fathom taking a lower paying lower status role in the rapidly […]

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Stay With Me by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀

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Cannonball Passport: Hello from Nigeria~ An aside that I am on the lookout for novels written by writers from the African diaspora who are not Nigerian, as I think almost 100% of my novels have been by Nigerian authors (writing in English). It’s perhaps that last point which informs why… In any case! I grabbed this book while I was waiting for the next novel, A Spell of Good Things, to be available. My main takeaway, especially after also reading Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright […]

https://cannonballread.com/2023/06/stay-with-me-wicherwill/

Ceux qui s’aiment fissisent tourjour par se retrouver by Sonia Dagotor

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Cannonball Passport: Book from France! This was a very quirky book, which I started in advance of a trip to France that was making me (as always) be rather self-flagellating for not being more diligent about building on the hard won fluency that I’d gained in school and then maintaining it (through more than haphazard one offs on vacation twice a decade, e.g. filing police reports in Marrakesh or asking if something had peanuts in Paris). It was, admittedly, picked off of a list of […]

https://cannonballread.com/2023/06/ceux-qui-saiment-fissisent-tourjour-par-se-retrouver-wicherwill/



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