Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


This ending made me love the series more.

The Golden Enclaves (The Scholomance, #3) by Naomi Novik

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This was such a great series, and this book a great ending to it. I feel like I was waiting for sure to say that until I finished this book, and now I can say with certainty that The Scholomance is worth reading. It all just comes together SO WELL. I was happy with the story on the surface, I was … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:249 · Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult · Tags: , , , , , , ·

“Imagine if all men took women seriously.”

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

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Enjoyed every bit of this. I'm at that time of year when I'm SO many reviews behind, and I'm reading a lot of good books that I just don't feel like articulating about (I'm about to Review Amnesty a crap ton of books), but this book was such a good read for me, I do want to say a little something … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:248 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: , , , , , , , , ·

“Be warned, then: the collected volumes of this series will contain frozen mountains, foetid swamps, hostile foreigners, hostile fellow countrymen, the occasional hostile family member, bad decisions, misadventures in orienteering, diseases of an unromantic sort, and a plenitude of mud.”

A Natural History of Dragons (The Memoirs of Lady Trent, #1) by Marie Brennan

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I finally started this series! I put book one on my TBR back when it was first published and then never got around to it, not even after I met the author at a book festival and got a signed copy of book three (I did not yet own books one or two, but it was the only one available for signing). Maybe … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:247 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fantasy · Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ·

might not be the book you think it is, but it might be the book you need

Babel, Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by R.F. Kuang

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Man oh man do people dislike this book! And when they do, they seem to dislike it for all sorts of suspicious reasons. Oh, white/western person, do you think the main characters in this book, the majority of whom are from colonies, spend a little bit too much time griping about the evils of the … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:167 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: , , , ·

Attention, Murderbot stans: I have a short story for you.

Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 132 by ed. Neil Clarke

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I downloaded this in 2021 for the Read Harder Challenge but never read it, and no longer remember the challenge I downloaded it for, but I managed to make it fit perfectly into this year's Read Harder. Efficiency! The issue itself after all of that was a bit of disappointment. I'm noting here at … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:246 · Genres: Short Stories · Tags: , , , , , , , , , ·

popcorn romance novel :)

Nora Goes Off Script by Annabel Monaghan

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I’m surprised I liked this as much as I did, because in general I don’t enjoy romances that occur over short periods of time—it doesn’t make sense, it doesn’t tie to reality, it draws me out of my enjoyment cocoon. But there was something about this novel that was charming nonetheless, and I … [Read more]

's CBR14 Review No:166 · Genres: Romance · Tags: ·


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