Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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When Lovecraft Has His Pigeons Come Home to Roost.

The Regicide Report by Charles Stross

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I did it, I finally got to the last mainstream Laundry Files Book! Spoilers for previous books abound. It the interim between The Labyrinth Index and The Regicide Report, Stross wrote a few books in a branch off series about the New Management—which is the nickname given to The Mandate’s … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:24 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Horror · Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , ·

O Hey! Johnnie Cope are ye waukin’ yet? Or are your drums a-beating yet?

The Bookseller of Inverness by S.G. MacLean

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After Culloden, Iain MacGillivray was left injured on Drumossie Moor. Wounded, his face brutally scarred from grapeshot, he survived only by pretending to be dead as the Redcoats patrolled the corpses of his Jacobite comrades. Six years later, with the clan chiefs routed and the Highlands subsumed … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:49 · Genres: Fiction, History, Mystery · Tags: , , , , ·

“Alright. Let’s go rescue a corpse from some shrubbery.”

The Resurrectionist: A Novel by A. Rae Dunlap

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Edinburgh, Scotland, 1828. Naïve but determined James Willoughby has abandoned his posh, sheltered life at Oxford to pursue a lifelong dream of studying surgery in Edinburgh. (Side effect of this being that his father apparently drops dead of the horror, a fact that his family will never let him … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:48 · Genres: Fiction, History, Mystery · Tags: , , , , , , ·

“History, like America, is always a work in progress, an experiment, an adventure, a journey”.

History Matters by David McCullough

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Our curiosity is what separates us from the cabbages- David McCullough This book collects a smattering of speeches, essays, interviews, and reading lists that David McCullough accumulated over the years, some of which have never been published before. Collected by his daughter Dorie McCullough … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:47 · Genres: History · Tags: , , , ·

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The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera

A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna

Stolen Focus by Johann Hari

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Fetter was raised to be a weapon. From a young age, his mother has groomed him to one day assassinate his father, the messianic cult leader known as The Perfect and Kind. She even severed Fetter's shadow, rendering him practically weightless. As a teenager, Fetter decides he doesn't want to be a … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:28 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: , , , ·

“Worthwhile literature; a book that deals with some social or moral issue in an earnest, plodding, and pessimistic manner. What Aida, who was also a member, called “reading to slit your wrists by”.

Probable Caws: A Meg Langslow Mystery (#39) by Donna Andrews

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While this may not have been the best Meg book, just like Seanan McGuire or Terry Pratchett, Donna Andrews' "not-so-goods" are better than some people's "top-tier A-level". Has to be one off the more interesting murderer reveals I've read in a very long time. In this, the 39th book in the series … [Read more]

's CBR18 Review No:46 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Mystery · Tags: , , , , , ·


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