Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Of Wasps and Other Incryptids

Butterfly Effects by Seanan McGuire

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While I usually end up staying up too late whenever Seanan McGuire releases a new novel because I need to know what will happen, this novel took me longer to read than any other of her previous books (a whole 3 days so nothing drastic). However, while this one took longer than normal to truly pull me in, I ultimately quite enjoyed it and how McGuire managed to bring together and resolve threads that had been pending for several novels, changing the status quo of […]

Space Archeology and a Mystery

The Ship Who Searched by Anne McCaffrey & Mercedes Lackey

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Tia Cade enjoys her life moving from dig site to dig site and planet to planet with her archeologist parents.  Precocious and inquisitive, she doesn’t mind that her best friend is a brainship or that she doesn’t get to spend time with other children her age.  However, when an unknown space disease leaves her almost completely paralyzed, Tia gets a new lease on life as a brainship as well as a desire to track down the disease that she caught and make sure no else […]

Spaceship Coming of Age

PartnerShip by Anne McCaffrey & Margaret Ball

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Newly commissioned brainship, Nancia is excited for her first mission.  However, her first group of passengers, all High Family scions like herself, don’t seem to realize that she’s brainship, and when Nancia doesn’t inform them of the fact, she overhears a number of things that trouble her.  Five years later, those conversations come to haunt her as Nancia is pulled into an investigation that links to those same passengers. I liked this one more than the Ship Who Sang.  It’s more of a coming of […]

Ambivalence

The Ship Who Sang by Anne McCaffrey

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Born with severe physical birth defects, nothing is wrong with Helva’s mind.  So as an infant she’s implanted in a shell, destined to one day be the mind that runs a spaceship.  Fascinated with music, Helva earns the moniker “the ship who sang”.  Setting off with her human partner (called a brawn), Helva will find that the joys and challenges of being herself are as vast as space itself. I don’t know how I feel about this book.  I’m sure I read it before when […]

The book that is NSFW and yet somehow I got away with reading it there…..

That Sexy Bea by Owlin

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That Sexy Bear by Lin Visel and Joseph Bergin III (or Owlin) is totally and completely screwed up. And that is being really polite! I really don’t want to go on as it left a funky taste in my mouth. It feels soapy. Why? Because I needed a 10 hour bath after reading with a lot of soap to wash all the parts as the whole experience was creepy AF. OMG there are women’s breasts, and natural who-ha’s hanging out; there are a couple of […]

Superheroes to the…. rescue?

Maker Girl and Professor Smarts by Jasmine Florentine

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Deep in the collection of my online reader links, Maker Girl and Professor Smarts by Jasmine Florentine showed up and I read it via that manner. Currently available, I’m glad I read this book via the online way for this cute and silly superhero story. While there was nothing wrong with the book, everything was not for me and therefore, I did not need a physical copy to keep. It is great for the second grade on up, as it has all the elements younger […]



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