Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

a delightful and heartwarming end to a series that never really stops your heart :)

Heartstopper: Volume 6 by Alice Oseman

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CBR Bingo: Middle, because I’m taking the ending of this book to be the start of the middle of Nick and Charlie’s story–six volumes, and now it’s the end of the beginning Kudos to Alice Oseman for landing this tricky plane–a six volume graphic novel about a teenage love story, which by its very nature leads to some cynical raised eyebrows. I’m well on the record being exasperated by novels that feature our leads, Aquamarine Quantia and Xavier Hotstuff, falling in permalovelust at the ripe […]

a pale replacement for my disappointment in the last Death novel from Discworld

Everything was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt by Ben Reeves

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CBR Bingo: And, because I think the use of the “and” in the title of this book is particularly punchy–melodically to the ear, stylistically, as a plot point Well, might as well keep at it reviewing the more morose books in my back catalogue (having just finished Giovanni’s Room. This is a book about Travis Smith, a sort of scruffy looking nondescript 30s something dude who is a real person but also the(?) a(?) personification of death who shows up both as people are dying and […]

there’s no HEA in this m/m romance

Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin

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CBR Bingo: Wheel, mainly for the cyclic nature of David’s relationship with Giovanni (and Hella) post- the idyllic room bit, where he goes around and around about what he wants A short, bittersweet plot about David, an Américain in Paris in the late 50s/early 60s (I think) who is nominally engaged to a modern lady who is currently in Spain trying to figure out if she loves David enough to get married. They’re very open minded, you see, until Hella realizes all she wants is […]

a reshuffle of bingo categories because this was just too elegant

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

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CBR Bingo: Sheep, I cannot believe that I missed this, I have recategorized Strangers: A Memoir as Versus This is one of those novels that’s always been kicking around in my brain box, because of course it has been. I listen to a track from Blade Runner as part of my work background music playlist, which is about 4.5 hours of scifi movie soundtracks, one track per movie (of ~3:50 in length), designed to be soothing and keep me focused during long allnighters (a consequence […]

why do I have to wait so long to see the next installment :(

The Fatal Unpleasantness at Netherfield by Claudia Gray

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CBR Bingo: Justice (which is served), although having just did my review for TKAM it is mildly more applicable there no? Okay first things first I think I speak for everyone when I say that I am just a BIT TIRED of the constant back and forth/two steps forward one step back nature of the relationship between Jonathan Darcy and Juliet Tilney. Okay, fine, I vaguely understand why they are on some rocky footing at the start of this novel–Juliet in particular is dealing with […]

a classic revisited

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

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CBR Bingo: Summer, because this book is all about the summer Dill came There was a time when I read this book pretty consistently, in bits and pieces or all at once (hi, my name is Mythili and I am a compulsive re-reader). It was also almost always the same copy, the lavender colored cover softback that we all bought when we read TKAM in 8th grade. Something about the cadence of the plot, the beats, the call backs, the overall arc, the gentle humor–it’s […]



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