The Surgeon's Daughter by Audrey Blake
I find myself really enjoying this series and looking forward to seeing where it goes next. In this installment, we follow Nora as she attempts to gain a medical education--a real one--in Italy, where they teach female medical students and sexism is solved and everything is great. JK you know … [Read more]
A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik
The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik
Re-re-read in advance of The Golden Enclaves, September 2022 Knowing now what I know about how this book is actually a semi-subversive (and by which I mean not at all subversive, was I just under a rock this whole while?) pushback on JKR's Wizarding World(TM), it's doubly fascinating to … [Read more]
Funny story: I was told that one of the books would be arriving late but I actually got the delivery notice the day after the first was received... except I couldn't find the package anywhere. One of my neighbors texted me to let me know they'd gotten a package for me.... except they'd already left … [Read more]
Friends, I post today to announce our latest donation of $700 to the American Cancer Society. I must admit that it's bittersweet to write about the good news of the donation right along with the sad news of who we honor. Jennie Baxla (baxlala) was a Cannonballer from the very beginning, and we … [Read more]
The Wandering Fire (The Fionavar Tapestry, #2) by Guy Gavriel Kay
I have done something now that I almost never do, and that is give up on a fantasy series. There is only one more book in The Fionavar Tapestry for me to read, and it's not even that long compared to the books I'm used to tackling in this genre, but I just couldn't do it anymore. The idea of reading … [Read more]
Paris Daillencourt is About to Crumble (Winner Bakes All, #2) by Alexis Hall
I don't think this is a book anybody but Alexis Hall could have pulled off. This is a romance and a book about a baking competition, yes, but it's also a book about a person with severe anxiety, and what that anxiety does to his relationships with the people around him. Paris isn't an easy character … [Read more]
