Cannonball Read 18

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Life has thrown a lot at me recently, so here are all the reviews I forgot to write!

The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden

The Miraculous by Jess Redman

The Tea Dragon Festival by K. O'Neill

An Exchange of Gifts by Anne McCaffrey

A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher

The Sandman: Act I by Neil Gaiman

The Princess Spy by Larry Loftis

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The Bear and the Nightingale By Katherine Arden (Warning – the review of this book contains f-bombs!) I know this was supposed to be based on a fairy tale, and some parts seemed very fairy tale-like (especially the story the nanny told toward the beginning with the girls in the snow) but I did not correlate them to any story I already knew.  I appreciated the involvement of the Russian household spirits, and how the village did quite well combining their religion and their culture […]

Non-Fiction — People With Interesting Lives

The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster by Sarah Krasnostein

Code Name: Lise. The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy by Larry Loftis

Black Klansman: Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigations of a Lifetime by Ron Stallworth

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Y’all, I read SO MUCH NON-FICTION. I really like books in the category of “interesting lives”, whether or not they’re celebrities or well-known in any way. Two of these books are biographies of very interesting people, and the third a memoir written by the man himself. (four stars) The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman’s Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster by Sarah Krasnostein This book was not at ALL what I expected, but I ended up liking it even more because of […]

Girl power AKA WWII most decorated spy was a woman

Code Name: Lise. The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy by Larry Loftis

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I had never heard of British spy Odette Sansom Churchill before Code Name: Lise because, like any spy worth their salt, Odette has managed to fly under the radar. The French born Odette’s espionage career began when she answered an ad for photographs of the French coast. When she inquired about getting her photos back she was instead approached about joining the Special Operations Executive (S.O.E). And there was something about the eyes – dark, determined…defiant. If his instincts were right, this was a girl […]



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