Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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If Poetry Could Kill

The Poet Emperess by Shen Tao

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I have both ElCicco and Narfa to thank for bringing this book to my attention earlier this year. Completely worth it and up there with The Everlasting and The Raven Scholar as one of the best page turner’s of the year so far.  Very mild spoilers below: This is another one of those fantasy novels that carries over a close Venn diagram with another sub genre—in this case politics intrigue. If you like stories about court politics, this will likely appeal. In the kingdom of […]

When in Doubt, Kate Beaton

Never Learn Anything from History by Kate Beaton

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Part of the reason I enjoy doing the read harder challenge and Cannonball Read’s Bingo is that it gives me reasons to go digging back into the reaches of my over 600 title long to read list. This year the CBR Bingo spaces have been boggling my brain a bit (in a good way!) and I had no idea how to fulfill a few of them based on what I’ve lined up already in my reading queue for the year. So, back to the to read list to see what I can […]

This would have been better as a YA fantasy

Dominion by Jean Kwok

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CBR18 Bingo: 26 (published this year. This month, in fact) Thank you to G.P. Putnam’s Sons and NetGalley for this ARC. My opinions are my own. This book is on sale now. Rubi is an azure, a group of displaced and badly treated refugees. In this fantasy world, there are four dominions, each with its own specialities. There is the Azure Dragon dominion, which can control plants and all things growing, and many of their people can shapeshift into animals; the Scarlet Phoenix dominion, which […]



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