Cannonball Read 18

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And My Girl Nailed the Landing!

The Empire of Gold by S. A. Chakraborty

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So we are coming around the corner to the final stretch of this Daevabad trilogy.  Are we going to get a solid ending?  Or a weak sauce wander off into philosophical musings (looking at you His Dark Materials).  One never knows.  But my girl does not fail me.  Final battle for Daevabad is just part of this finale.  We are also off to Egypt, where Ali’s mother, the Queen, is currently living (and also the site of Nahri’s earliest memories) and then there are ginormous […]

Definitely a Whole New World

The Stardust Thief by Chelsea Abdullah

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bcr16bingo rings As a child, and an early reader, I was totally hooked on fairy tales, especially the more obscure ones from Andrew Lang.  I loved his “color” collections – the Red Fairy Tale Book, the Purple Fairy Tale Book, the (I kid you not) Olive Fairy Tale Book.  There were so many of them but never enough.  Then later on, I branched out to fairy tale-adjacent, such as Bullfinch’s Mythology, and the Ricard Burton collection of the Arabian Nights.  So I had some knowledge […]



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